Music CD, Musical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.

Songs and airs [sound recording] / Purcell.

[London, England?] : Virgin, p1994.

2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Songs, in part excerpts from operas and incidental music, with acc. of recorders, oboe, trumpet, violin(s), viola, archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar, viola da gamba, harpsichord, chamber organ, and organ, separately or in various combinations.

Veritas (London, England)

Veritas (London, England)

Songs (High voice) with continuo.

Operas -- Excerpts.

Incidental music -- Excerpts.

Argenta, Nancy.

North, Nigel.

Boothby, Richard, 1955-

Nicholson, Paul (Organist)

Toll, John.

Becket, Rachel.

Scott, Marion, recorder player.

Goodwin, Paul, 1956-

McKenna, Sophia.

Bennett, Mark (Trumpeter)

Nobes, Pauline H.

Robinson, Nicholas, violinist.

Huggett, Fiona.

Jones, Trevor (Viola da gamba player)

Songs. Selections.

Virgin : 7243 5 61866 2 0 (7243 5 61867 2 9, 7243 5 61868 2 8).

Songs, in part excerpts from operas and incidental music, with acc. of recorders, oboe, trumpet, violin(s), viola, archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar, viola da gamba, harpsichord, chamber organ, and organ, separately or in various combinations.

Compact discs.

Program notes by Adélaïde de Place in French with English translation (7 p.) inserted in container.

Nancy Argenta, soprano ; Nigel North, archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar ; Richard Boothby, viola da gamba ; Paul Nicholson, harpsichord, chambr organ (CD 1) ; John Toll, harpsichord, organ (CD 2) ; Rachel Becket, Marion Scott, recorders ; Paul Goodwin, Sophia McKenna, oboes ; Mark Bennett, trumpet ; Pauline Nobes, Nicholas Robinson, Fiona Huggett, violins ; Trevor Jones, viola.

Recorded Oct. 1992 (CD 1) and July 1995 (CD 2), Abbey Road Studios, London.

Sung in English or Latin.

CD 1. O solitude ; Ah! how sweet it is to love ; Not all my torments ; Stripp'd of their green ; Tell me, some pitying angel ; If music be the food of love ; Hark! hark! the echoing air ; The fatal hour comes on apace ; Incassum, Lesbia ; Sweeter than roses ; Cupid, the slyest rogue alive ; From silent shades ; Dear pretty youth ; From rosy bow'rs ; Now that the sun hath veil'd his light ; Beneath a poplar's shadow ; I attempt from love's sickness to fly ; Let us dance ; Fairest isle ; O solitude -- CD 2. Nymphs and shepherds ; Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams ; Love in their little veins inspires ; Fly swift, ye hours ; They tell us that your mighty powers ; The plaint: O let me weep ; In the black, dismal dungeon of despair ; See, even Night herself is here ; Why should men quarrel? ; Seek not to know ; Retir'd from mortals' sight ; To arms, heroic Prince ; O lead me to some peaceful gloom ; Halcyon days ; Bid the virtues ; Lord, what is man? : a divine hymn ; Music for a while ; If music be the food of love : 1st setting ; Sawney is a bonny lad : a Scotch song ; When I have often heard young maids complaining ; Ah! cruel, bloody fate ; Thy hand, Belinda/When I am laid in earth.

7243 5 61866 2 0

7243 5 61867 2 9

7243 5 61868 2 8

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CD D PURC SA A66

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