O solitude my sweetest choice! Z 406 (6:06) -- If music be the food of love Z 379c (3:42) -- The fatal hour comes on apace Z 421 (3:29) -- What a sad fate is mine Z 428b (3:40) -- While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep (A pastoral coronation song) Z 437 (1:50) -- Air instrumental (The Indian queen 1694 Z 630) (1:06) -- Air lent (Distressed innocence 1690 Z 577) (1:39) -- I attempt from love's sickness instrumental (The Indian queen 1694 Z 630) (1:26) -- Ask me to love no more Z 368 (1:23) -- Beneath a dark and melancholy grove (Sappho's complaint) Z 461 (3:27) -- If pray'rs and tears (Sighs for our late sovereign King Charles the second) Z 380 (7:02) -- Incassum Lesbia (The queen's epicidium) Z 383 (7:23) -- In Cloris all soft charms agree Z 384 (2:16) -- A thousand sev'ral ways I tried to hide Z 459 (0:40) -- Intermède instrumental (manuscript, British Library) (0:54) -- Bacchus is a pow'r divine Z 360 (3:06) -- Intermède instrumental (manuscript, British Library) (0:41) -- Song tune instrumental (manuscript, British Library) (0:43) -- Young Thirsis' fate ye hills and groves deplore (An elegy upon the death of Mr. Thomas Farmer, B.M.) Z 473 (5:10) -- An evening hymn (Now, now that the sun hath veil'd his light) Z 193 in Harmonia Sacra 1688 (3:28).
Credits (note)
Recording producer, Etienne Collard.
Event (note)
Recorded in the Chapelle de l'école Ste Geneviève (Versailles, France), October, 2002.
Language (note)
Sung in English and Latin.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
Title
O solitude [electronic resource] / Henry Purcell.
Imprint
[France] : Astrée Naïve, c2003.
Credits
Recording producer, Etienne Collard.
Performer
Gérard Lesne, alto ; Il seminario musicale (Bruno Cocset, basse de violon ; Blandine Rannou, clavecin & orgue positif ; Pascal Monteilhet, théorbe).
Event
Recorded in the Chapelle de l'école Ste Geneviève (Versailles, France), October, 2002.