O Solitude (4:41) -- 'Tis nature's voice (3:44) -- Celia has a thousand charmes (2:08) -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly (1:52) -- If musick be the food of love (3:39) -- Not all my torments (2:16) -- From silent shades (3:57) -- Musick for a while (3:37) -- Sweeter than roses (3:20) -- Crown the altar (3:07) -- Lord, what is man (5:24) -- Sleep, Adam, sleep (1:45) -- Now that the sun hath veil'd his light (3:45) -- The fatal hour comes on apace (3:22) -- Here the deities approve (4:10) -- Be welcome, then, great sir (3:31) -- Thrice happy lovers (2:36) -- Hark! the echoing air (2:21) -- Hark! how all things (1:55).
Note
In part excerpts from incidental music or operas; mostly continuo acc.
Sung in English.
Event (note)
Recorded Sept. 20-22, 1990, American Academy and Institue of Arts and Letters, New York City.
Author
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
Title
Sweeter than roses : songs by Henry Purcell.
Publisher
[Arles] : Harmonia Mundi France ; Harmonia Mundi USA, [1992]
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Hark! the ech'ing air.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Hark how all things in one sound agree.
Other form:
Source record: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Songs. Selections. Sweeter than roses. [Arles] : Harmonia Mundi France ; Los Angeles, CA : Harmonia Mundi USA, p1992 (OCoLC)26628156