Product Description
O Solitude: This exquisite and profound piece by Henry Purcell opens a selection of songs by the great English Baroque composer, recorded here by the alto Gérard Lesne whose voice proves to be in its element expressing the subtlety of these pieces.
Tracklisting
| Purcell: |
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
If music be the food of love, Z379
The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421
What a sad fate is mine, Z428
While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437
The Indian Queen: instrumental air
Distressed Innocence, Z577: Air lent
I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen)
Ask me to love no more, Z358
Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461
If pray'rs and tears, Z380
Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383
In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384
Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570
Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360
Young Thirsis' fate, Z473
An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 If music be the food of love, Z379 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 What a sad fate is mine, Z428 While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437 The Indian Queen: instrumental air Distressed Innocence, Z577: Air lent I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) Ask me to love no more, Z358 Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461 If pray'rs and tears, Z380 Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383 In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384 Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360 Young Thirsis' fate, Z473 An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 |
