Purcell: Songs and Airs (2001)

Track Listing

1. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
2. Ah! How sweet it is to love (from "Tyrannic Love"), song, Z. 613/2
3. Not all my torments can your pity move, song, Z. 400
4. Stript of their green our groves appear, song, Z. 444
5. Tell me, some pitying angel, (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), sacred song, for soprano & continuo, Z. 196

1. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
2. Ah! How sweet it is to love (from "Tyrannic Love"), song, Z. 613/2
3. Not all my torments can your pity move, song, Z. 400
4. Stript of their green our groves appear, song, Z. 444
5. Tell me, some pitying angel, (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), sacred song, for soprano & continuo, Z. 196
6. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
7. Hark! now the echoing air (from "The Fairy Queen"), soprano aria and chorus, Z. 629/48
8. The fatal hour comes on apace, song, Z. 421
9. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas (The Queen's Epicedium), song, Z. 383
10. Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanias"), song, Z. 585/1
11. Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, song, Z. 367
12. From silent shades and the Elysian groves (Bess of Bedlam), song, Z. 370
13. Dear pretty youth (from "The Tempest"), aria, Z. 631/10
14. From rosie bow'rs (from "Don Quixote"), song, Z. 578/9
15. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ("An Evening Hymn"), Z. 193
16. Beneath the poplar's shadow (from "Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow") Z. 590/1
17. I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (from "The Indian Queen"), Z630/17h
18. Let Us Dance (from "Prophetess"), aria for soprano, Z. 627/app3
19. Fairest Isle (from "King Arthur"), aria for soprano, Z. 628/38
20. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
21. Nymphs and Shepherds (from "The Libertine"), song, Z. 600/1
22. Amidst the shades and cool and refreshing streams, for soprano & continuo, Z. 355
23. Love in their little veins inspires (from "Timon of Athens"), aria for soprano, 2 flutes & continuo, Z. 632/3
24. Fly swift, ye hours, song, Z. 369
25. They tell us that you mighty powers above (from "The Indian Queen"), soprano aria, Z. 630/19
26. O let me weep ("The Plaint" from "The Fairy Queen"), aria, Z. 629/40
27. In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, sacred song for soprano & continuo, Z. 190
28. See even Night herself is here (from "The Fairy Queen"), soprano aria, Z. 629/11
29. Why should men quarrel (from "The Indian Queen"), soprano aria, Z. 630/4c-4d
30. Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd (from "The Indian Queen"), aria, Z. 630/15
31. Retir'd from any mortal's sight (from "The History of King Richard II"), song, Z. 581/1
32. To arms, heroic prince, (from "The Libertine"), prelude & song, Z. 600/3
33. O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from "Bonduca"), song, Z. 574/17
34. Halcyon days (from "The Tempest"), sopoano aria, Z. 631/15
35. Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: No. 7, Bid the virtues
36. Lord, what is man?, sacred song for soprano & continuo, Z. 192
37. Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2
38. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
39. Sawney is a bonny lad, song, Z. 412
40. When I have often heard (from "The Fairy Queen"), soprano aria, Z. 629/23
41. Ah cruel, bloody fate (from "Theodosius"), song, Z. 606/9
42. Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in Earth (from "Dido and Aeneas"), soprano aria, Z. 626/37