January 1, 2003

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

Henry Purcell

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Disc 1

1Dido and Aeneas: Overture

[2:19]

2Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 / Act I: "Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow" - "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care"

[1:02]

3Dido and Aeneas / Act I: "Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd" ... "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy"

[4:44]

4Dido and Aeneas / Act I: "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?" - "Fear No Danger"

[3:32]

5Dido and Aeneas / Act I: "See, Your Royal Guest Appears" - "Cupid Only Throws the Dart"

[1:26]

6Dido and Aeneas / Act I: "If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake" ... "To the Hills and the Vales"

[2:19]

7Dido and Aeneas / Act I: The Triumphing Dance

[1:11]

8Dido and Aeneas / Act II: Prelude for the Witches "Wayward Sisters" ... "Ho, ho, ho"

[2:35]

9Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun" ... "But Ere We This Perform"

[2:21]

10Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell"

[1:41]

11Dido and Aeneas / Act II: Echo Dance of Furies

[0:55]

12Dido and Aeneas / Act II: Ritornelle - "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales"

[3:21]

13Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Oft She Visits"

[2:17]

14Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Behold, Upon My Bending Spear" - "Haste, Haste to Town"

[1:23]

15Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Stay, Prince"

[2:41]

16Dido and Aeneas / Act III: Prelude - "Come Away, Fellow Sailors"

[1:34]

17Dido and Aeneas / Act III: The Sailors' Dance "See the Flags and Streamers Curling"

[1:43]

18Dido and Aeneas / Act III: "Our Next Motion" - "Destructions's Our Delight"

[1:13]

19Dido and Aeneas / Act III: The Witches' Dance

[1:12]

20Dido and Aeneas / Act III: "Your Counsel All is Urg'd in Vain" - "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire"

[5:02]

21Dido and Aeneas, Act III: No. 36, Recit. Thy Hand, Belinda – No. 37, Song. When I Am Laid in Earth "Dido's Lament"

[4:22]

22Dido and Aeneas / Act III: "With Drooping Wings"

[4:51]

23King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628: First Music: Chaconne

[3:23]

24King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691): Second Music: I. Overture

[1:59]

25King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691): II. Air

[1:26]

26King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: "Woden, first to thee" / "We have sacrific'd"

[2:21]

27King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: "The white horse neigh'd aloud" / "To Woden thanks we render"

[1:22]

28King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: The Lot is cast (soprano)

[0:43]

29King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: Brave souls

[2:34]

30King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: I call ye all (Tenor)

[2:09]

31King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: 'Come if you dare' (tenor)

[4:08]

Disc 2

1King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Hither this way (Philidel)

[2:09]

2King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Let not a Moon-born Elf (Grimbald)

[1:12]

3King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Hither, this way bend

[0:38]

4King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Come follow, follow, follow me (Philidel)

[2:19]

5King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: How blest are Shepherds (Shepherd)

[4:34]

6King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Shepherd, shepherd, leave Decoying (Shepherdesses)

[1:55]

7King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Come, shepherds

[1:30]

8King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air

[1:08]

9King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Prelude

[0:24]

10King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: What ho (Cupid)

[1:08]

11King Arthur, Or The British Worthy, Z.628 / Act 3: What Power Art Thou (Genius)

[2:51]

12King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Thou Doting Fool (Cupid)

[0:54]

13King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Great Love, I know thee now

[1:02]

14King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: No part of my Dominium (Cupid)

[1:11]

15King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Prelude

[0:51]

16King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act III: See, See, We Assemble

[3:20]

17King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: 'Tis I that have warm'd ye (Cupid)

[2:11]

18King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: "Sound a parley" / "'Tis Love, 'tis Love, 'tis Love that has warm'd us"

[4:25]

19King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe

[0:46]

20King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 4: Two Daughters (Syrens)

[3:06]

21King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / 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"

[6:07]

22King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air

[0:40]

23King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Trumpet Tune

[0:53]

24King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Ye blust'ring brethren

[3:03]

25King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Symphony

[2:00]

26King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Round thy coast

[2:26]

27King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: For Folded Flocks (Countertenor, Tenor and Bass)

[3:39]

28King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Your Hay it is Mow'd (Comus)

[2:36]

29King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Fairest Isle (Venus)

[4:49]

30King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Dialogue: You say, 'Tis Love (Soprano and bass)

[5:25]

31King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Trumpet tune

[0:40]

32King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: "Saint George, the patron of our Isle" - "Our natives not alone appear"

[3:32]

Disc 3

1Dioclesian, Z.627: First Music

[2:33]

2Dioclesian, Z.627: Second Music

[1:38]

3Dioclesian, Z.627: Overture

[4:28]

4Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 1: First Act Tune

[0:46]

5Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Prelude - "Great Diocles the Boar has kill'd" - "Sing Iô's! praise the thund'ring Jove"

[2:41]

6Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: "Charon the peaceful Shade invites"

[1:47]

7Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Symphony

[1:37]

8Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: "Let all mankind the pleasure share" - "Sound all your instruments"

[0:39]

9Dioclesian / Act 2: "Let all mankind the pleasure share"

[0:44]

10Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Prelude - "Let the soldiers rejoice" - "Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice"

[1:58]

11Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Ritornello

[0:40]

12Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: "To Mars let 'em raise" - "Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice"

[1:15]

13Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Ritornello

[0:46]

14Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Symphony - "Since the toils and the hazards" - "All sing great Diocles' story"

[5:51]

15Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Dances Of Furies

[3:42]

16Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Second Act Tune

[0:52]

17Dioclesian / Act 3: Chaconne

[2:49]

18Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 3: "When first I saw"

[2:24]

19Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 3: The Chair Dance

[1:12]

20Dioclesian / Act 3: Prelude - "What shall I do"

[5:24]

21Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 3: Third Act Tune

[0:43]

22Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 4: Butterfly Dance

[2:12]

23Dioclesian / Act 4: Trumpet Tune

[0:42]

24Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 4: "Sound, Fame, thy brazen trumpet sound!" - "Let all rehearse"

[5:37]

25Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 4: Fourth Act Tune

[0:51]

26Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 5: Country Dance

[0:50]

27Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Prelude - "Call the Nymphs"

[1:48]

28Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Let the Graces and Pleasures repair"

[0:56]

29Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Come, come away"

[1:07]

Disc 4

1Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Prelude - "Behold, O mightiest of Gods"

[3:31]

2Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Paspe

[0:51]

3Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Oh the sweet delights of love!"

[1:50]

4Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Let monarchs fight" - "Hear, mighty Love!"

[5:11]

5Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Since from my dear Astraea's sight"

[3:14]

6Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Make room, make room"

[0:45]

7Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "I'm here, I'm here, with my jolly crew" - "We'll rejoice as well as you" - "The mighty Jove"

[2:19]

8Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Dance Of Bacchanals

[1:27]

9Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Still I'm wishing, still desiring"

[4:38]

10Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Canaries

[0:28]

11Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Tell me why"

[5:41]

12Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Dance

[0:50]

13Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "All our days and our nights" - "Begone, begone, importunate reason"

[1:58]

14Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Let us dance, let us sing"

[1:39]

15Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Dance

[0:41]

16Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Triumph, triumph victorious Love" - "Then all rehearse"

[4:13]

17Timon of Athens: Overture

[5:42]

18Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 1 Duet "Hark! How the songsters of the grove"

[1:49]

19Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 2 Solo "Love in their little veins inspires"

[1:21]

20Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 3 Trio "But ah! how much are our delights"

[1:25]

21Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: Nos. 4 & 5 Solo & Chorus "Hence with your trifling deity" - "But over us no griefs prevail"

[2:34]

22Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: Nos.6&7 Solo&Chorus "Come all, come all to me" - "Who can resist such mighty charms?"

[3:03]

23Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 8 Solo "Return, revolting rebels"

[2:21]

24Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No.9 Solo "The cares of lovers"

[1:57]

25Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 10 Solo "Love quickly is pall'd"

[1:21]

26Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 11&12 Duet&Chorus "Come, let us agree"

[2:22]

27Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: Curtain Tune On A Ground

[2:27]

Disc 5

1Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Overture

[3:45]

2Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Come, ye sons of art, away

[1:42]

3Come, Ye Sons of Art Away, Z. 323: III. Sound The Trumpet, Sound

[2:27]

4Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Come, ye sons of art

[1:11]

5Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Strike the viol, touch the lute

[4:44]

6Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: The day that such a blessing gave

[2:52]

7Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Bid the Virtues, bid the Graces

[2:56]

8Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: These are the sacred charms

[1:40]

9Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: See Nature, rejoicing

[2:44]

10Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Overture

[1:49]

11Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Welcome to all the pleasures

[1:49]

12Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: "Here the deities approve" - "While joys celestial"

[5:19]

13Welcome 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"

[1:43]

14Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Beauty, thou scene of love

[3:41]

15Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: In a consort of voices

[1:13]

16Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Symphony

[1:18]

17Of 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"

[3:27]

18Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: The bashful Thames, for beauty so renowned

[3:37]

19Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: The pale and the purple rose

[2:36]

20Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: And in each track of glory since

[3:29]

21Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Symphony

[1:16]

22Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: And now when the renown'd Nassau

[1:56]

23Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: They did no storms, nor threat'nings fear

[2:09]

24Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: So when the glitt'ring Queen of Night

[3:36]

25Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Let music join

[1:16]

26Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Sound, trumpets, sound!

[2:15]

27Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Sound all to him

[1:49]