Composer: Henry Purcell
Orchestra: The English Concert
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Number of Discs: 5
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Archiv
Catalogue: 4746722
Release: 2003
Size: 1.49 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Dido and Aeneas
01. Overture
02. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” – “Banish sorrow, banish care”
03. “Ah! Belinda, I am press’d” … “When monarchs unite, how happy”
04. “Whence could so much virtue spring?” – “Fear no danger”
05. “See, your royal guest appears” – “Cupid only throws the dart”
06. “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” … “To the hills and the vales”
07. The Triumphing Dance
08. Prelude for the Witches “Wayward sisters” … “Ho, ho, ho”
09. “Ruin’d ere the set of sun” … “But ere we this perform”
10. “In our deep vaulted cell”
11. Echo Dance of Furies
12. Ritornelle – “Thanks to these lonesome vales”
13. “Oft she visits”
14. “Behold, upon my bending spear” – “Haste, haste to town”
15. “Stay, Prince”
16. Prelude – “Come away, fellow sailors”
17. The Sailors’ Dance “See the flags and streamers curling”
18. “Our next motion” – “Destructions’s our delight”
19. The Witches’ Dance
20. “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” – “Great minds against themselves conspire”
21. “Thy Hand, Belinda…When I Am Laid In Earth”
22. “With drooping wings”
Purcell: King Arthur, Z628
23. First Music: Chaconne
24. Second Music: 1. Overture
25. 2. Air
26. “Woden, first to thee” / “We have sacrific’d”
27. “The white horse neigh’d aloud” / “To Woden thanks we render”
28. The Lot is cast (soprano)
29. Brave souls
30. I call ye all (Tenor)
31. ‘Come if you dare’ (tenor)
CD 02
Purcell: King Arthur, Z628
01. Hither this way (Philidel)
02. Let not a Moon-born Elf (Grimbald)
03. Hither, this way bend
04. Come follow, follow, follow me (Philidel)
05. How blest are Shepherds (Shepherd)
06. Shepherd, shepherd, leave Decoying (Shepherdesses)
07. Come, shepherds
08. Second Act Tune: Air
09. Prelude
10. What ho (Cupid)
11. What Power Art Thou (Genius)
12. Thou Doting Fool (Cupid)
13. Great Love, I know thee now
14. No part of my Dominium (Cupid)
15. Prelude
16. See, See, We Assemble
17. ‘Tis I that have warm’d ye (Cupid)
18. “Sound a parley” / “‘Tis Love, ’tis Love, ’tis Love that has warm’d us”
19. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
20. Two Daughters (Syrens)
21. Passacaglia – “How happy the lover” – Ritornello – “For love ev’ry creature” – “No joys are above” – “In vain are our graces” – “Then use the sweet blessing”
22. Fourth Act Tune: Air
23. Trumpet Tune
24. Ye blust’ring brethren
25. Symphony
26. Round thy coast
27. For Folded Flocks (Countertenor, Tenor and Bass)
28. Your Hay it is Mow’d (Comus)
29. Fairest Isle (Venus)
30. Dialogue: You say, ‘Tis Love (Soprano and bass)
31. Trumpet tune
32. “Saint George, the patron of our Isle” – “Our natives not alone appear”
CD 03
Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627
01. First Music
02. Second Music
03. Overture
04. First Act Tune
05. Prelude – “Great Diocles the Boar has kill’d” – “Sing Iô’s! praise the thund’ring Jove”
06. “Charon the peaceful Shade invites”
07. Symphony
08. “Let all mankind the pleasure share” – “Sound all your instruments”
09. “Let all mankind the pleasure share”
10. Prelude – “Let the soldiers rejoice” – “Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice”
11. Ritornello
12. “To Mars let ’em raise” – “Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice”
13. Ritornello
14. Symphony – “Since the toils and the hazards” – “All sing great Diocles’ story”
15. Dances Of Furies
16. Second Act Tune
17. Chaconne
18. “When first I saw”
19. The Chair Dance
20. Prelude – “What shall I do”
21. Third Act Tune
22. Butterfly Dance
23. Trumpet Tune
24. “Sound, Fame, thy brazen trumpet sound!” – “Let all rehearse”
25. Fourth Act Tune
26. Country Dance
27. Prelude – “Call the Nymphs”
28. “Let the Graces and Pleasures repair”
29. “Come, come away”
CD 04
Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627
01. Prelude – “Behold, O mightiest of Gods”
02. Paspe
03. “Oh the sweet delights of love!”
04. “Let monarchs fight” – “Hear, mighty Love!”
05. “Since from my dear Astraea’s sight”
06. “Make room, make room”
07. “I’m here, I’m here, with my jolly crew” – “We’ll rejoice as well as you” – “The mighty Jove”
08. Dance Of Bacchanals
09. “Still I’m wishing, still desiring”
10. Canaries
11. “Tell me why”
12. Dance
13. “All our days and our nights” – “Begone, begone, importunate reason”
14. “Let us dance, let us sing”
15. Dance
16. “Triumph, triumph victorious Love” – “Then all rehearse”
Timon of Athens, Z632
17. Overture
18. No.1 Duet “Hark! How the songsters of the grove”
19. No.2 Solo “Love in their little veins inspires”
20. No.3 Trio “But ah! how much are our delights”
21. Nos.4&5 Solo&Chorus “Hence with your trifling deity” – “But over us no griefs prevail”
22. Nos.6&7 Solo&Chorus “Come all, come all to me” – “Who can resist such mighty charms?”
23. No.8 Solo “Return, revolting rebels”
24. No.9 Solo “The cares of lovers”
25. No.10 Solo “Love quickly is pall’d”
26. No.11&12 Duet&Chorus “Come, let us agree”
27. Curtain Tune On A Ground
CD 05
Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary’s birthday, 1694), Z 323
01. Overture
02. Come, ye sons of art, away
03. Sound the trumpet, sound
04. Come, ye sons of art
05. Strike the viol, touch the lute
06. The day that such a blessing gave
07. Bid the Virtues, bid the Graces
08. These are the sacred charms
09. See Nature, rejoicing
Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
10. Overture
11. Welcome to all the pleasures
12. “Here the deities approve” – “While joys celestial”
13. “Then lift up your voices” – “The pow’r shall divert us a pleasanter way”
14. Beauty, thou scene of love
15. In a consort of voices
Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song, 1690)
16. . Symphony
17. “Of old, when heroes thought it base” – “Brigantium, honour’d with a race divine”
18. The bashful Thames, for beauty so renowned
19. The pale and the purple rose
20. And in each track of glory since
21. Symphony
22. And now when the renown’d Nassau
23. They did no storms, nor threat’nings fear
24. So when the glitt’ring Queen of Night
25. Let music join
26. Sound, trumpets, sound!
27. Sound all to him
