Dido & Aeneas / King Arthur / Dioclesian / Timon of Athens / 3 OdesDido & Aeneas / King Arthur / Dioclesian / Timon of Athens / 3 Odes
Dido & Aeneas / King Arthur / Dioclesian / Timon of Athens / 3 Odes

Dido & Aeneas / King Arthur / Dioclesian / Timon of Athens / 3 Odes

Compilation by Purcell; Choir of the English Concert, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Released 23 September 2003
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Tracklist

  • CD 1: Dido and Aeneas (1–22) / King Arthur: Act I (23–31)
  • 1
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626: Overture
    Henry Purcell
    2:19
  • 2
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 1: “Shake the cloud from off your brow” … “Banish sorrow, banish care”
    Henry Purcell
    1:02
  • 3
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 1: “Ah! Belinda, I am press’d” … “When monarchs unite, how happy”
    Henry Purcell
    4:44
  • 4
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 1: “Whence could so much virtue spring?” … “Fear no danger”
    Henry Purcell
    3:32
  • 5
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 1: “See, your royal guest appears” … “Cupid only throws the dart”
    Henry Purcell
    1:26
  • 6
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 1: “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” … “To the hills and the vales”
    Henry Purcell
    2:19
  • 7
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 1: The Triumphing Dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:11
  • 8
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: Prelude for the Witches “Wayward sisters” … “Ho, ho, ho”
    Henry Purcell
    2:35
  • 9
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: “Ruin’d ere the set of sun” … “But ere we this perform”
    Henry Purcell
    2:21
  • 10
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: “In our deep vaulted cell”
    Henry Purcell
    1:41
  • 11
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: Echo Dance of Furies
    Henry Purcell
    0:55
  • 12
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: Ritornelle: “Thanks to these lonesome vales”
    Henry Purcell
    3:21
  • 13
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: “Oft she visits”
    Henry Purcell
    2:17
  • 14
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: “Behold, upon my bending spear” … “Haste, haste to town”
    Henry Purcell
    1:23
  • 15
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 2: “Stay, Prince”
    Henry Purcell
    2:41
  • 16
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 3: Prelude: “Come away, fellow sailors”
    Henry Purcell
    1:34
  • 17
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 3: The Sailors’ Dance “See the flags and streamers curling”
    Henry Purcell
    1:43
  • 18
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 3: “Our next motion” … “Destruction’s our delight”
    Henry Purcell
    1:13
  • 19
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 3: The Witches’ Dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:12
  • 20
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 3: “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” … “Great minds against themselves conspire”
    Henry Purcell
    5:02
  • 21
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 3: “Thy hand, Belinda” … “When I am laid in earth”
    Henry Purcell
    4:22
  • 22
    Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act 3: “With drooping wings”
    Henry Purcell
    4:51
  • 23
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628: First Music: Chaconne
    Henry Purcell
    3:23
    3.0 ★
  • 24
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628: Second Music: I. Overture
    Henry Purcell
    1:59
    3.0 ★
  • 25
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628: II. Air
    Henry Purcell
    1:26
    3.0 ★
  • 26
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 1: “Woden, first to thee” / “We have sacrific’d”
    Henry Purcell
    2:21
    3.0 ★
  • 27
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 1: “The white horse neigh’d aloud” / “To Woden thanks we render”
    Henry Purcell
    1:22
    3.0 ★
  • 28
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 1: The lot is cast
    Henry Purcell
    0:43
    3.0 ★
  • 29
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 1: “Brave souls”
    Henry Purcell
    2:34
    3.0 ★
  • 30
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 1: “I call ye all”
    Henry Purcell
    2:09
    3.0 ★
  • 31
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 1: “Come if you dare”
    Henry Purcell
    4:08
    3.0 ★
  • CD 2: King Arthur: Act II–V
  • 1
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: “Hither this way” (Philidel)
    Henry Purcell
    2:09
    3.0 ★
  • 2
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: “Let not a moon‐born elf” (Grimbald)
    Henry Purcell
    1:12
    3.0 ★
  • 3
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: “Hither, this way bend”
    Henry Purcell
    0:38
    3.0 ★
  • 4
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: Come follow, follow, follow me (Philidel)
    Henry Purcell
    2:19
    3.0 ★
  • 5
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: How blest are shepherds (Shepherd)
    Henry Purcell
    4:34
    3.0 ★
  • 6
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying (Shepherdesses)
    Henry Purcell
    1:55
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: Come, shepherds
    Henry Purcell
    1:30
    3.0 ★
  • 8
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air
    Henry Purcell
    1:08
    3.0 ★
  • 9
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: Prelude
    Henry Purcell
    0:24
    3.0 ★
  • 10
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: What ho (Cupid)
    Henry Purcell
    1:08
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: What power art thou (Genius)
    Henry Purcell
    2:51
    3.0 ★
  • 12
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: Thou doting fool (Cupid)
    Henry Purcell
    0:54
    3.0 ★
  • 13
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: Great love, I know thee now
    Henry Purcell
    1:02
    3.0 ★
  • 14
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: No part of my dominion (Cupid)
    Henry Purcell
    1:11
    3.0 ★
  • 15
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: Prelude
    Henry Purcell
    0:51
    3.0 ★
  • 16
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: See, see, we assemble
    Henry Purcell
    3:20
    3.0 ★
  • 17
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: ’Tis I that have warm’d ye (Cupid)
    Henry Purcell
    2:11
    3.0 ★
  • 18
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: “Sound a parley” / “’Tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that has warm’d us”
    Henry Purcell
    4:25
    3.0 ★
  • 19
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    Henry Purcell
    0:46
    3.0 ★
  • 20
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 4: Two Daughters (Syrens)
    Henry Purcell
    3:06
    3.0 ★
  • 21
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 4: 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”
    Henry Purcell
    6:07
    3.0 ★
  • 22
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air
    Henry Purcell
    0:40
    3.0 ★
  • 23
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune
    Henry Purcell
    0:53
    3.0 ★
  • 24
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Ye blust’ring brethren
    Henry Purcell
    3:03
    3.0 ★
  • 25
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Symphony
    Henry Purcell
    2:00
    3.0 ★
  • 26
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Round thy coast
    Henry Purcell
    2:26
    3.0 ★
  • 27
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: For folded flocks
    Henry Purcell
    3:39
    3.0 ★
  • 28
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Your hay it is mow’d (Comus)
    Henry Purcell
    2:36
    3.0 ★
  • 29
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Fairest Isle (Venus)
    Henry Purcell
    4:49
    3.0 ★
  • 30
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Dialogue: You say, ’tis love
    Henry Purcell
    5:25
    3.0 ★
  • 31
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: Trumpet tune
    Henry Purcell
    0:40
    3.0 ★
  • 32
    King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628, Act 5: “Saint George, the patron of our Isle” … “Our natives not alone appear”
    Henry Purcell
    3:32
    3.0 ★
  • CD 3: Dioclesian: Act I–V (1–26) / Dioclesian: The Masque (27–29)
  • 1
    Dioclesian, Z.627: First Music
    Henry Purcell
    2:33
  • 2
    Dioclesian, Z.627: Second Music
    Henry Purcell
    1:38
  • 3
    Dioclesian, Z.627: Overture
    Henry Purcell
    4:28
  • 4
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 1: First Act Tune
    Henry Purcell
    0:46
  • 5
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Prelude: “Great Diocles the Boar has kill’d” – “Sing Iô’s! praise the thund’ring Jove”
    Henry Purcell
    2:41
  • 6
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: “Charon the peaceful Shade invites”
    Henry Purcell
    1:47
  • 7
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Symphony
    Henry Purcell
    1:37
  • 8
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: “Let all mankind the pleasure share”: “Sound all your instruments”
    Henry Purcell
    0:39
  • 9
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: “Let all mankind the pleasure share”
    Henry Purcell
    0:44
  • 10
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Prelude: “Let the soldiers rejoice” – “Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice”
    Henry Purcell
    1:58
  • 11
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Ritornello
    Henry Purcell
    0:40
  • 12
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: “To Mars let ’em raise”: “Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice”
    Henry Purcell
    1:15
  • 13
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Ritornello
    Henry Purcell
    0:46
  • 14
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Symphony: “Since the toils and the hazards” – “All sing great Diocles’ story”
    Henry Purcell
    5:51
  • 15
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Dances of Furies
    Henry Purcell
    3:42
  • 16
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 2: Second Act Tune
    Henry Purcell
    0:52
  • 17
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 3: Chaconne
    Henry Purcell
    2:49
  • 18
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 3: “When first I saw”
    Henry Purcell
    2:24
  • 19
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 3: The Chair Dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:12
  • 20
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 3: Prelude: “What shall I do”
    Henry Purcell
    5:24
  • 21
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 3: Third Act Tune
    Henry Purcell
    0:43
  • 22
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 4: Butterfly Dance
    Henry Purcell
    2:12
  • 23
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 4: Trumpet Tune
    Henry Purcell
    0:42
  • 24
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 4: “Sound, Fame, thy brazen trumpet sound!” … “Let all rehearse”
    Henry Purcell
    5:37
  • 25
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 4: Fourth Act Tune
    Henry Purcell
    0:51
  • 26
    Dioclesian, Z.627, Act 5: Country Dance
    Henry Purcell
    0:50
  • 27
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: Prelude: “Call the Nymphs”
    Henry Purcell
    1:48
  • 28
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Let the Graces and Pleasures repair”
    Henry Purcell
    0:56
  • 29
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Come, come away”
    Henry Purcell
    1:07
  • CD 4: Dioclesian: The Masque (1–16) / Timon of Athens (17–27)
  • 1
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: Prelude: “Behold, O mightiest of Gods”
    Henry Purcell
    3:31
  • 2
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: Paspe
    Henry Purcell
    0:51
  • 3
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Oh the sweet delights of love!”
    Henry Purcell
    1:50
  • 4
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Let monarchs fight” … “Hear, mighty Love!”
    Henry Purcell
    5:11
  • 5
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Since from my dear Astraea’s sight”
    Henry Purcell
    3:14
  • 6
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Make room, make room”
    Henry Purcell
    0:45
  • 7
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “I’m here, I’m here, with my jolly crew” … “We’ll rejoice as well as you” – “The mighty Jove”
    Henry Purcell
    2:19
  • 8
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: Dance of Bacchanals
    Henry Purcell
    1:27
  • 9
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Still I’m wishing, still desiring”
    Henry Purcell
    4:38
  • 10
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: Canaries
    Henry Purcell
    0:28
  • 11
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Tell me why”
    Henry Purcell
    5:41
  • 12
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: Dance
    Henry Purcell
    0:50
  • 13
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “All our days and our nights” … “Begone, begone, importunate reason”
    Henry Purcell
    1:58
  • 14
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Let us dance, let us sing”
    Henry Purcell
    1:39
  • 15
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: Dance
    Henry Purcell
    0:41
  • 16
    Dioclesian, Z.627, The Masque: “Triumph, triumph victorious Love” … “Then all rehearse”
    Henry Purcell
    4:13
  • 17
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632: Overture
    Henry Purcell
    5:42
  • 18
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 1 Duet “Hark! How the songsters of the grove”
    Henry Purcell
    1:49
  • 19
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 2 Solo “Love in their little veins inspires”
    Henry Purcell
    1:21
  • 20
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 3 Trio “But ah! how much are our delights”
    Henry Purcell
    1:25
  • 21
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 4 & 5 Solo & Chorus “Hence with your trifling deity” … “But over us no griefs prevail”
    Henry Purcell
    2:34
  • 22
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 6 & 7 Solo & Chorus “Come all, come all to me” … “Who can resist such mighty charms?”
    Henry Purcell
    3:03
  • 23
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 8 Solo “Return, revolting rebels”
    Henry Purcell
    2:21
  • 24
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: “The cares of lovers”
    Henry Purcell
    1:57
  • 25
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 10 Solo “Love quickly is pall’d”
    Henry Purcell
    1:21
  • 26
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: no. 11 & 12 Duet & Chorus “Come, let us agree”
    Henry Purcell
    2:22
  • 27
    Timon Of Athens, Z.632, The Masque: Curtain Tune on a Ground
    Henry Purcell
    2:27
  • CD 5: Come, ye sons of art, away (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II) (1–9) / Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day) (10–15) / Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song) (16–27)
  • 1
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: Overture
    Henry Purcell
    3:45
  • 2
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: Come, ye sons of art, away
    Henry Purcell
    1:42
  • 3
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: Sound the trumpet, sound
    Henry Purcell
    2:27
  • 4
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: Come, ye sons of art
    Henry Purcell
    1:11
  • 5
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: Strike the viol, touch the lute
    Henry Purcell
    4:44
  • 6
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: The day that such a blessing gave
    Henry Purcell
    2:52
  • 7
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: Bid the Virtues, bid the Graces
    Henry Purcell
    2:56
  • 8
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: These are the sacred charms
    Henry Purcell
    1:40
  • 9
    Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323: See Nature, rejoicing
    Henry Purcell
    2:44
  • 10
    Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day: Overture
    Henry Purcell
    1:49
  • 11
    Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day: Welcome to all the pleasures
    Henry Purcell
    1:49
  • 12
    Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day: “Here the deities approve” … “While joys celestial”
    Henry Purcell
    5:19
  • 13
    Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day: “Then lift up your voices” … “The pow’r shall divert us a pleasanter way”
    Henry Purcell
    1:43
  • 14
    Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day: Beauty, thou scene of love
    Henry Purcell
    3:41
  • 15
    Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day: In a consort of voices
    Henry Purcell
    1:13
  • 16
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Symphony
    Henry Purcell
    1:18
  • 17
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: “Of old, when heroes thought it base” … “Brigantium, honour’d with a race divine”
    Henry Purcell
    3:27
  • 18
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: The bashful Thames, for beauty so renowned
    Henry Purcell
    3:37
  • 19
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: The pale and the purple rose
    Henry Purcell
    2:36
  • 20
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: And in each track of glory since
    Henry Purcell
    3:29
  • 21
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Symphony
    Henry Purcell
    1:16
  • 22
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: And now when the renown’d Nassau
    Henry Purcell
    1:56
  • 23
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: They did no storms, nor threat’nings fear
    Henry Purcell
    2:09
  • 24
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: So when the glitt’ring Queen of Night
    Henry Purcell
    3:36
  • 25
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Let music join
    Henry Purcell
    1:16
  • 26
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Sound, trumpets, sound!
    Henry Purcell
    2:15
  • 27
    Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Sound all to him
    Henry Purcell
    1:49

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