Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge Z570 (1695): Overture
    Purcell
    3:22
  • 2
    Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge Z570 (1695): Rondeau - Air - Air - Minuet
    Purcell
    5:14
  • 3
    Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge Z570 (1695): Air - Jig - Hornpipe - Air
    Purcell
    4:06
  • 4
    Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge Z570 (1695): Song: Lucinda is Bewitching Fair
    Purcell
    3:26
  • 5
    Distressed Innocence or The Princess Of Persia Z577 (1690): Overture
    Purcell
    1:38
  • 6
    Distressed Innocence or The Princess Of Persia Z577 (1690): Air - Slow Air - Air - Hornpipe or Jig
    Purcell
    4:35
  • 7
    Distressed Innocence or The Princess Of Persia Z577 (1690): Rondeau - Air - Minuet
    Purcell
    3:00
  • 8
    The Married Beau or The Curious Impenitent Z603 (1694): Overture
    Purcell
    2:21
  • 9
    The Married Beau or The Curious Impenitent Z603 (1694): Slow Air - Hornpipe
    Purcell
    1:46
  • 10
    The Married Beau or The Curious Impenitent Z603 (1694): Air - Hornpipe - Jig
    Purcell
    3:32
  • 11
    The Married Beau or The Curious Impenitent Z603 (1694): Trumpet Air - March - Hornpipe on a Ground
    Purcell
    4:43
  • 12
    The Married Beau or The Curious Impenitent Z603 (1694): Song: See! Where Repenting Celia Lyes
    Purcell
    2:15
  • 13
    The Gordian Knot Unty'd Z597 (1691): Overture
    Purcell
    2:31
  • 14
    The Gordian Knot Unty'd Z597 (1691): Air - Rondeau Minuet - Air - Jig
    Purcell
    4:11
  • 15
    The Gordian Knot Unty'd Z597 (1691): Chaconne - Air - Minuet
    Purcell
    3:46
  • 16
    Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady Z588 (1690): Overture
    Purcell
    2:15
  • 17
    Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady Z588 (1690): Pursuing Beauty
    Purcell
    4:08
  • 18
    Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady Z588 (1690): No More, Sir, No More
    Purcell
    2:23
  • 19
    Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady Z588 (1690): In Vain Clemene
    Purcell
    3:12
  • 20
    Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady Z588 (1690): Ground
    Purcell
    3:48
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Overture
    Purcell
    2:35
  • 2
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Air - Hornpipe - Air
    Purcell
    3:29
  • 3
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Hornpipe - Air - Minuet
    Purcell
    2:56
  • 4
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Jack, Thou'rt a Roper
    Purcell
    1:53
  • 5
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Hear Us Great Rugwith
    Purcell
    2:57
  • 6
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Hear, Ye Gods of Britain
    Purcell
    1:17
  • 7
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Sing, Sing, Ye Druids!
    Purcell
    2:46
  • 8
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Divine Andate, President of War
    Purcell
    0:52
  • 9
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): To Arms
    Purcell
    2:10
  • 10
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): Britons Strike Home!
    Purcell
    2:46
  • 11
    Bonduca or The British Heroine Z574 (1695): O Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom
    Purcell
    2:42
  • 12
    Circe Z575 (?1690): We Must Assemble a Sacrifice
    Purcell
    2:36
  • 13
    Circe Z575 (?1690): Their Necessary Aid You Use
    Purcell
    3:17
  • 14
    Circe Z575 (?1690): Come Every Demon
    Purcell
    3:26
  • 15
    Circe Z575 (?1690): Lovers, Who to Their First Embraces Go
    Purcell
    3:17
  • 16
    Circe Z575 (?1690): Magicians' Dance ... Pluto, Arise!
    Purcell
    2:39
  • 17
    The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck at Last Z611 (?1694): Overture
    Purcell
    2:13
  • 18
    The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck at Last Z611 (?1694): Song Tune - Slow Air - Air
    Purcell
    4:48
  • 19
    The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck at Last Z611 (?1694): Preludio - Hornpipe - Minuet - MInuet (1st Act Tune)
    Purcell
    6:11
  • 20
    The Old Bachelor Z607 (1691): Overture
    Purcell
    2:24
  • 21
    The Old Bachelor Z607 (1691): Hornpipe
    Purcell
    1:03
  • 22
    The Old Bachelor Z607 (1691): Thus to a Ripe, Consenting Maid
    Purcell
    2:24
  • 23
    The Old Bachelor Z607 (1691): Slow Air - Hornpipe
    Purcell
    1:59
  • 24
    The Old Bachelor Z607 (1691): As Amoret and Thyrsis Lay
    Purcell
    2:26
  • 25
    The Old Bachelor Z607 (1691): Rondeau - Minuet - Boree - March - Jig
    Purcell
    4:13
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Overture In G Minor Z770
    Purcell
    1:56
  • 2
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): Sing All Ye Muses
    Purcell
    3:46
  • 3
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): When the World First Knew Creation
    Purcell
    2:19
  • 4
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): Let the Dreadful Engines of Eternal Will
    Purcell
    6:34
  • 5
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): With This Sacred Charming Wand
    Purcell
    9:09
  • 6
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): Since Times are So Bad
    Purcell
    5:20
  • 7
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): Genius of England
    Purcell
    4:30
  • 8
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): Lads and Lasses, Blithe and Gay
    Purcell
    1:45
  • 9
    Don Quixote Z578 (1694-95): From Rosie Bow'rs
    Purcell
    6:01
  • 10
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): Overture
    Purcell
    2:39
  • 11
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): Saraband
    Purcell
    1:12
  • 12
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): Celia, That I Once Was Blest
    Purcell
    2:38
  • 13
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): Hornpipe - Scotch Tune
    Purcell
    2:16
  • 14
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): For Iris I Sigh
    Purcell
    2:41
  • 15
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): Air - Minuet - Hornpipe
    Purcell
    2:36
  • 16
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): Fair Iris and Her Swain
    Purcell
    4:38
  • 17
    Amphitryon or The Two Sosias Z572 (1690): Bourrée
    Purcell
    0:49
  • CD 4
  • 1
    The Double Dealer Z592 (1693): Overture
    Purcell
    2:48
  • 2
    The Double Dealer Z592 (1693): Hornpipe - Minuet - Air - Hornpipe
    Purcell
    4:15
  • 3
    The Double Dealer Z592 (1693): Cynthia Frowns
    Purcell
    2:28
  • 4
    The Double Dealer Z592 (1693): Minuet - Minuet - Air - Air
    Purcell
    4:35
  • 5
    The Richmond Heiress or A Woman Once in the Right Z608 (1693): Behold the Man
    Purcell
    8:32
  • 6
    The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love Z609 (1695): Overture
    Purcell
    3:31
  • 7
    The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love Z609 (1695): Celia Has a Thousand Charms
    Purcell
    2:19
  • 8
    The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love Z609 (1695): Take Not a Woman's Anger Ill
    Purcell
    1:20
  • 9
    The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love Z609 (1695): How Happy, How Happy is She
    Purcell
    1:33
  • 10
    Henry the Second, King of England Z580 (1692): In Vain, 'Gainst Love, in Vain I Strove
    Purcell
    1:53
  • 11
    Tyrannic Love or The Royar Martyr Z613 (1694): Hark! My Damilcar!
    Purcell
    4:18
  • 12
    Tyrannic Love or The Royar Martyr Z613 (1694): Ah! How Sweet it is to Love
    Purcell
    4:23
  • 13
    Overture in G Minor Z772
    Purcell
    3:13
  • 14
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Prepare, Prepare, the Rites Begin
    Purcell
    1:43
  • 15
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Can'st Thou, Marina
    Purcell
    2:51
  • 16
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): The Gate to Bliss
    Purcell
    2:55
  • 17
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Hark! Hark! Behold the Heav'nly Choir
    Purcell
    2:45
  • 18
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Now the Fight's Done
    Purcell
    2:19
  • 19
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Sad as Death at Dead of Night
    Purcell
    2:20
  • 20
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Dream No More of Pleasures Past
    Purcell
    1:44
  • 21
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Hail to the Myrtle Shade
    Purcell
    2:35
  • 22
    Theodosius or The Force of Love Z606 (1680): Ah Cruel, Bloody Fate
    Purcell
    2:15
  • CD 5
  • 1
    The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed Z600 (?1692): Nymphs and Shepherds
    Purcell
    1:52
  • 2
    The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed Z600 (?1692): We Come
    Purcell
    1:39
  • 3
    The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed Z600 (?1692): Prelude
    Purcell
    1:27
  • 4
    The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed Z600 (?1692): Prepare, Prepare, New Guests Draw Near
    Purcell
    4:38
  • 5
    The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed Z600 (?1692): To Arms, Heroic Prince
    Purcell
    3:17
  • 6
    The Massacre of Paris Z604 (1690): Thy Genius, Lo (2 Settings)
    Purcell
    6:18
  • 7
    Oedipus Z583 (?1692): Hear, Ye Sullen Powers Below
    Purcell
    3:03
  • 8
    Oedipus Z583 (?1692): Music for a While
    Purcell
    3:42
  • 9
    Oedipus Z583 (?1692): Come Away, Do Not Stay ... Laius! Hear, Hear
    Purcell
    2:22
  • 10
    Overture in D Minor Z771
    Purcell
    2:48
  • 11
    The History of King Richard the Second (The Sicilian Usurper) Z581 (1681):Retir'd from Any Mortal's Sight
    Purcell
    2:58
  • 12
    Sir Barnaby Whigg or No Wit Like a Woman's Z589 (1681): Blow, Blow, Boreas, Blow
    Purcell
    3:42
  • 13
    Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow Z590 (?1685): Beneath the Poplar's Shadow
    Purcell
    1:48
  • 14
    The English Lawyer Z594 (1685): My Wife has a Tongue
    Purcell
    1:25
  • 15
    A Fool's Preferment or The Three Dukes of Dunstable Z571 (1688): I Sigh'd, and I Pin'd ... There's Nothing so Fatal as Woman
    Purcell
    1:49
  • 16
    A Fool's Preferment or The Three Dukes of Dunstable Z571 (1688): Fled is My Love ... 'Tis Death Alone ... I'll Mount to Yon Blue Coelum
    Purcell
    2:43
  • 17
    A Fool's Preferment or The Three Dukes of Dunstable Z571 (1688): I'll Sail Upon the Dog-Star
    Purcell
    1:24
  • 18
    A Fool's Preferment or The Three Dukes of Dunstable Z571 (1688): Jenny, 'Gin You Can Love
    Purcell
    2:12
  • 19
    A Fool's Preferment or The Three Dukes of Dunstable Z571 (1688): If Thou Wilt Give Me Back My Love
    Purcell
    0:41
  • 20
    The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico Z598 (1691): I Look'd and Saw Within
    Purcell
    2:04
  • 21
    The Knight of Malta Z599 (1691): At the Close of the Ev'ning
    Purcell
    1:29
  • 22
    A Dialogue Between Thirsis and Daphne Z525 (1691): Why, My Daphne, Why Complaining
    Purcell
    3:37
  • 23
    The Wives' Excuse or Cuckolds Make Themselves Z612 (1691): Ingrateful Love!
    Purcell
    2:28
  • 24
    The Wives' Excuse or Cuckolds Make Themselves Z612 (1691): Hang This Whining Way of Wooing
    Purcell
    1:26
  • 25
    The Wives' Excuse or Cuckolds Make Themselves Z612 (1691): Say, Cruel Amoret ... Corinna, I Excuse Thy Face
    Purcell
    2:31
  • 26
    Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero Z576 (1692): No, No, Poor Suff'ring Heart
    Purcell
    2:59
  • 27
    Regulus or The Faction of Carthage Z586 (1692): Ah Me! To Many Deaths
    Purcell
    3:14
  • 28
    The Marriage-Hater Match'd Z602 (1692): As Soon as The Chaos ... How Vile are the Sordid Intregues
    Purcell
    4:02
  • CD 6
  • 1
    Love Triumphant or Nature Will Prevail Z582 (1693): How Happy's the Husband
    Purcell
    1:43
  • 2
    Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Z587 (1693): There's Not a Swain
    Purcell
    1:11
  • 3
    The Female Virtuosos Z596: Love, Thou Art Best
    Purcell
    1:57
  • 4
    Epsom Wells Z579 (1693): Leave These Useless Arts
    Purcell
    2:12
  • 5
    The Maid's Last Prayer or Any Rather Than Fail Z601 (1693): Though You Make No Return
    Purcell
    2:08
  • 6
    The Maid's Last Prayer or Any Rather Than Fail Z601 (1693): No, Resistance is But Vain
    Purcell
    4:13
  • 7
    The Maid's Last Prayer or Any Rather Than Fail Z601 (1693): Tell Me No More
    Purcell
    1:57
  • 8
    Aureng-Zebe or The Great Mogul Z573 (?1692): I See, She Flies Me
    Purcell
    2:34
  • 9
    The Canterbury Guests or A Bargain Broken Z591 (1694): Good Neighbour Why?
    Purcell
    3:19
  • 10
    The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery Z595 (1694): The Danger is Over
    Purcell
    2:16
  • 11
    The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery Z595 (1694): I Sigh'd and Owned My Love
    Purcell
    2:49
  • 12
    The Spanish Fair or The Double Discovery Z610 (1694-95): Whilst I Get Grief
    Purcell
    2:43
  • 13
    Pausianias, the Betrayer of His Country Z585 (1695): Sweeter Than Roses
    Purcell
    3:01
  • 14
    Pausianias, the Betrayer of His Country Z585 (1695): My Dearest, My Fairest
    Purcell
    2:36
  • 15
    The Mock Marriage Z605 (1695): Oh! How You Protest ... 'Twas Within a Furlong ... Man is for the Woman Made
    Purcell
    4:44
  • 16
    Oroonoko Z584 (1695): Celemene, Pray Tell Me
    Purcell
    3:09
  • 17
    Pavan No. 1 in A Major Z748
    Purcell
    3:31
  • 18
    Pavan No. 2 in A Minor Z749
    Purcell
    2:54
  • 19
    Pavan No. 3 in B Flat Major Z750
    Purcell
    3:03
  • 20
    Pavan No. 4 in G Minor Z751
    Purcell
    3:21
  • 21
    Pavan No. 5 in G Minor Z752
    Purcell
    4:09
  • 22
    Trio Sonata for Violin, Bass Viol and Organ Z780
    Purcell
    6:50
  • 23
    Chacony Z730
    Purcell
    4:48

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