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.
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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 |