Purcell songs realised by Britten / Henry Purcell.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer.

Contributor:

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, arranger of music.

Middleton, Joseph (Pianist), instrumentalist.

Hughes, Ruby, 1980- singer.

Grevelius, Anna, singer.

Nelson, Benedict, singer.

Clayton, Allan, singer.

Blaze, Robin, singer.

Rose, Matthew (Bass), singer.

Standardized Title:

Vocal music. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs (High voice) with piano.

Sacred songs (High voice) with piano.

Songs (Medium voice) with piano.

Songs (Low voice) with piano.

Operas--Excerpts, Arranged.

Operas.

Vocal duets with piano.

Piano music, Arranged.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Excerpts.

Arrangements (Music)

Physical Description:

2 audio discs (2 hr., 21 min., 39 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, UK : Champs Hill Records, [2016]

Language Note:

English lyrics with English notes, performer biographies, and lyrics in container.

System Details:

Audio discs digital

Audio discs audio file CD audio

Contents:

CD 1. Job's curse (5:03)

Blessed Virgin's expostulation (7:16)

Saul and the witch at Endor (11:01)

Mmorning hymn (3:09)

Alleluia (2:19)

In the black dismal dungeon of despair (4:41)

Lord, what is man? (6:16)

We sing to him (1:47)

Evening hymn (4:22)

Queen's epicedium (7:23)

Turn then thine eyes (1:37)

Mad Bess (5:46)

Hark the ech'ing air! (2:20)

I attempt from love's sickness to fly (2:10)

How blest are shepherds (2:54)

Let the dreadful engines of eternal will (8:03) CD 2. If music be the food of love (3:44)

Sound the trumpet (2:34)

If music be the food of love (2:15)

O solitude (6:09)

Music for a while (3:40)

Fairest isle (2:21)

I'll sail upon the dog-star (1:25)

On the brow of Richmond Hill (1:46)

Shepherd, leave decoying (1:12)

Knotting song (2:59)

Not all my torments (3:13)

Pious Celinda (1:27)

There's not a swain of the plain (0:52)

Man is for the woman made (1:12)

I take no pleasure (1:58)

Take not a woman's anger ill (1:29)

Celemene (3:52)

I spy Celia (4:16)

What can we poor females do? (1:11)

Dulcibella (2:17)

When Myra sings (2:52)

Sweeter than roses (3:52)

No, resistance is but vain (5:32)

Lost is my quiet (3:19).

Participant:

Ruby Hughes, soprano ; Anna Grevelius, mezzo-soprano ; Robin Blaze, counter-tenor ; Allan Clayton, tenor ; Benedict Nelson, baritone ; Matthew Rose, bass ; Joseph Middleton, piano.

Notes:

Champs Hill Records: CHRCD106 (on container: CRCD106).

CD 1, tracks 1-2, 4-6, 8-9, 11-12, 14, 16 and CD 2, tracks 1-3, 6, 9-16, 19, 22-24 Recorded 2013 February 27-28 Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK.

CD 1, tracks 3, 10, 15 and CD 2, tracks 5, 7-8, 17-18, 20-21 Recorded 2014 June 17-18 Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK.

CD 1, tracks 7, 13 and CD 2, track 4 Recorded 2013 May 22 Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK.

Contains:

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Let the night perish.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Tell me, some pitying angel.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. In guilty night.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Thou wakeful shepherd.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. O God, Thou art my God. Alleluia

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. In the black, dismal dungeon of despair.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Lord, what is man?

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. We sing to Him whose wisdom form'd the ear.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Now that the sun hath veiled his light.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Turn, then thine eyes

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Bess of Bedlam.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Hark! the ech'ing air

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Indian queen. I attempt from Love's sickness to fly

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. King Arthur. How blest are shepherds.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Don Quixote. Let the dreadful engines

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. If music be the food of love, Z. 379C

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Come ye sons of art away. Sound the trumpet 'till around

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. If music be the food of love, Z. 379A

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. O solitude, my sweetest choice.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Oedipus. Music for a while

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. King Arthur. Fairest isle

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fool's preferment. I'll sail upon the dog-star

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. On the brow of Richmond Hill.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. King Arthur. Shepherd, leave decoying

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Hears not my Phyllis.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Not all my torments can your pity move.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Pious Celinda goes to pray'rs.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Rule a wife and have a wife. There's not a swain on the plain

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Mock marriage. Man is for the woman made

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Rival sisters. Take not a woman's anger ill

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Celemene, pray tell me.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. I spy Celia, Celia eyes me.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. What can we poor females do?, Z. 429

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Dulcibella, whene'er I sue for a kiss.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. When Myra sings.

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Pausanias, the betrayer of his country. Sweeter than roses

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Maid's last prayer. No, resistance is but vain

Contains: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Lost is my quiet forever.

OCLC:

966007566

Publisher Number:

5060212590749

106 Champs Hill Records

CHRCD106 Champs Hill Records

CRCD106 Champs Hill Records