The Complete Secular Solo Songs of Henry Purcell (2003)

Track Listing

1. Draw near, you lovers, song for soprano & bass, Z. 462
2. While Thirsis, wrapt in downy sleep, song, Z. 437
3. Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind, song, Z. 396
4. I lov'd fair Celia, song, Z. 381
5. What hope for us remains now he is gone? (On the death of Matthew Locke), song for soprano, chorus & continuo, Z. 472

1. Draw near, you lovers, song for soprano & bass, Z. 462
2. While Thirsis, wrapt in downy sleep, song, Z. 437
3. Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind, song, Z. 396
4. I lov'd fair Celia, song, Z. 381
5. What hope for us remains now he is gone? (On the death of Matthew Locke), song for soprano, chorus & continuo, Z. 472
6. Pastora's beauties when unblown, song, Z. 407
7. A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, song, Z. 359
8. Urge me no more, song, Z. 426
9. Farewell, all joys, song, Z. 368
10. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
11. Amidst the shades and cool and refreshing streams, for soprano & continuo, Z. 355
12. They say you're angry ("The Rich Rival"), song, Z. 422
13. Let each gallant heart, song, Z. 390
14. Anacreon's defeat ("This poet sings the Trojan Wars"), song, Z. 423
15. Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love, for soprano & continuo, Z. 353
16. My heart, whenever you appear, song, Z. 399
17. On the brow of Richmond Hill, song, Z. 405
18. Rashly I swore I would disown, song, Z. 411
19. Since the pox or the plague, song, Z. 471
20. Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, song, Z. 461
21. Musing on cares of human fate, song, Z. 467
22. Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still, song, Z. 438
23. How I sigh when I think of the charms, song for soprano & continuo, Z. 374
24. Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind, song, Z. 443
25. Beware, poor Shepherds, song, Z. 361
26. See how the fading glories of the year, song, Z. 470
27. Cease, anxious world, your fruitless pain, song for soprano & continuo, Z. 362
28. O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, song, Z. 402
29. I love and I must, song, Z. 382
30. When her languishing eyes said 'love', song, Z. 432
31. Not all my torments can your pity move, song, Z. 400
32. Ah! cruel nymph! you give despair for soprano & continuo, Z. 352
33. Sylvia, now your scorn give over, song, Z. 420
34. Since one poor view has drawn my heart, song, Z. 416
35. I resolve against cringing, song, Z. 386
36. Gentle shepherds, you that know, song, Z. 464
37. If grief has any pow'r to kill, song, Z. 378
38. She that would gain a faithful lover, song, Z. 414
39. Fly swift, ye hours, song, Z. 369
40. Hears not my Phyllis (The Knotting Song), song, Z. 371
41. Phyllis, talk no more of passion, song, Z. 409
42. Celia's fond, too long I've loved her, song for soprano & continuo, Z. 364
43. In vain we dissemble, song, Z. 385
44. When my Aemelia smiles, song, Z. 434
45. Farewell, ye rocks, song, Z. 463
46. What a sad fate is mine, song, Z. 428 (2 versions)
47. I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, song, Z. 388
48. Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, song, Z. 395
49. How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, song, Z. 373
50. She who my poor heart possesses, song, Z. 415
51. Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, song, Z. 392
52. When first my shepherdess and I, song, Z. 431
53. Through mournful shades and solitary groves, song, Z. 424
54. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
55. Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, song, Z. 469
56. Who but a slave can well express, song, Z. 440
57. High on a throne of glitt'ring ore (Ode to the Queen), song, Z. 465
58. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas (The Queen's Epicedium), song, Z. 383
59. She loves and she confesses too, song, Z. 413
60. Amintas, to my grief I see, for soprano & continuo, Z. 356
61. Corinna is divinely fair, song, Z. 365
62. Amintor, heedless of his flocks, for soprano & continuo, Z. 357
63. He himself courts his own ruin, song, Z. 372
64. No, to what purpose should I speak, song, Z. 468
65. Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, song, Z. 512
66. Lovely Albina's come ashore, song, Z. 394
67. Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, song, Z. 417
68. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
69. Phyllis, I can ne'er forgive it, song, Z. 408
70. Bacchus is a power divine, song, Z. 360
71. From silent shades and the Elysian groves (Bess of Bedlam), song, Z. 370
72. Let formal lovers still pursue, song, Z. 391
73. I came, I saw, and was undone, song, Z. 375
74. Who can behold Florella's charms?, song, Z. 441
75. Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, song