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The Echoing Air - Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood (organ); Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord); Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet); Laurence Dreyfus (cello); Laurence Dreyfus (viola da gamba); Paul O'Dette (archlute); Simon Standage (violin)
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  1. The Staircase Overture, Z. 614
  2. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
  3. Work(s): Cebell
  4. The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600: 3b. To Arms, to Arms, Heroic Prince
  5. To arms (from "Bonduca"), symphony & song, Z. 574/15
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  1. The Staircase Overture, Z. 614
  2. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
  3. Work(s): Cebell
  4. The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600: 3b. To Arms, to Arms, Heroic Prince
  5. To arms (from "Bonduca"), symphony & song, Z. 574/15
  6. Tell me, some pitying angel, (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), sacred song, for soprano & continuo, Z. 196
  7. Work(s): Slow Air
  8. Work(s): We Come To Sing
  9. Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: 17a. Oh! Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom
  10. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
  11. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: 48bc. Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air
  12. Trumpet Tune (from "The Indian Queen (as Z. 630/4a")) for harpsichord in C major ZT 698
  13. Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, incidental music, Z. 585: 1. Sweeter Than Roses
  14. King Arthur, or, The British Worthy, semi-opera, Z. 628: 38. Fairest Isle
  15. She that would gain a faithful lover, song, Z. 414
  16. Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, song, Z. 367
  17. The Indian Queen, semi-opera, Z. 630: 17h. I Attempt from Love's Sickness To Fly
  18. Jig for harpsichord in G minor, ZD 223 (doubtful)
  19. Oedipus, incidental music, Z. 583: 2. Music for a While
  20. The fatal hour comes on apace, song, Z. 421
  21. Work(s): Hear, Mighty Love
  22. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: 40ab. Plainte: O Let Me Weep
  23. Chacony, for 4 strings in G minor, Z. 730: 40ab. Plainte: O Let Me Weep
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Henry Purcell's music receives a sumptuous presentation on Sylvia McNair's 1994 CD The Echoing Air. Arranged in four parts following the scheme of Baroque entertainment, the concert features both vocal and instrumental pieces. Opening with a vibrant performance of the Staircase Overture, an early piece full of youthful vitality, the program is drawn from a variety of stage works and incidental music, most of which were randomly compiled in Orpheus Britannicus shortly after the composer's death. McNair's pleasant, unaffected ...

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