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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Purcell: Songs and Sacred Arias
Purcell: | Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), Z196 Music for a while, Z583 Let the dreadful engines (from Don Quixote, Z578) Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium) If music be the food of love, Z379 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 Close thine eyes and sleep secure, Z184 Fairest Isle (from King Arthur) Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585) The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 Crown the altar (from Celebrate this Festival - Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, Z321) I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574) What shall I do to show how much I love her? (from Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627) From Rosy Bow'rs (from Don Quixote) Sonata 9 in F major Pavan a3 |
A collection of Purcell’s songs and sacred arias given by the Deller Consort. 12 of the 18 tracks feature the inimitable voice of Alfred Deller. 'The most remarkable countertenor of the 20th Century' Sir Michael Tippett “This reissue of recordings by the Deller Consort (founded in 1950) reminds us of his wonderfully pure and supple, if undramatic, voice, and his firmness and intensity of line (a quality absolutely required in Purcell’s songs, but too often missing)...April Cantelo’s performance of The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation, that miniature cantata of genius, is a delight.” Sunday Times, 3rd April 2011 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Music for a whilePurcell songs
Purcell: | Plainte - O, Let Me Weep (from The Fairy Queen, Z629) If music be the food of love, Z379 I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) Fairest Isle (from King Arthur) Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585) Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium) An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 From Rosy Bow'rs (from Don Quixote) O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574) The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581 Music for a while, Z583 Since from my dear Astrea's sight (from Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627) O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 |
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| |  | Songs and Airs by Purcell
Purcell: | O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 Ah! how sweet it is to love (from Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr, Z613) Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 Stript of their green our groves appear, Z444 Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), Z196 If music be the food of love, Z379 Hark! The Echoing Air (from The Fairy Queen, Z629) The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383 Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585) Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370 Dear pretty youth (from The Indian Queen, Z630) From Rosy Bow'rs (from Don Quixote) An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 Beneath a poplar's shadow (from Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow, Z590) I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) Let us dance (from Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627) Fairest Isle (from King Arthur) Nymphs and Shepherds, Z600 Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355 Love in their little veins inspires (from Timon of Athens, Z632) Fly swift ye hours, Z369 They tell us that your mighty powers, Z630 Plainte - O, Let Me Weep (from The Fairy Queen, Z629) In the black dismal dungeon of despair, Z190 See, even Night herself is here (from King Arthur, Z628) Why should men quarrel? (from The Indian Queen, Z630) Seek not to know (from The Indian Queen, Z630) The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581 To arms, heroic Prince (from The Libertine Destroyed, Z600) O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574) Halcyon days (from King Arthur, Z629) Bid the virtues (from Come ye Sons of Art, Z323) Lord, what is man?, Z192 Music for a while, Z583 Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412 When I have often heard young maids complaining (from The Fairy Queen, Z629) Ah! cruel, bloody fate (from Theodosius or The Force of Love, Z606) Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth (from Dido & Aeneas) |
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Dowland: | Disdain me still Lend your eares to my sorrow good people Come heavy sleep Preludium The Earl of Essex's Galliard A Shepherd in a Shade By a fountain where I lay Away with these self-loving lads Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15 Tarleton's Riserrectione If that a sinner's sigh A Fantasie Toss not my soul In darkness let me dwell | Purcell: | She loves and she confesses too, Z413 They tell us that your mighty powers, Z630 Trumpet Tune in C major, ZT 678, called the Cibell Echo Dance of the Furies (from Dido & Aeneas) Ritornello ‘The Grove’ Fly swift ye hours, Z369 O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574) What a sad fate is mine, Z428 A New Irish Tune Z646 A New Irish Tune Z646 A New Scotch Tune Z 655 Hornpipe A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682 From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370 Music for a while, Z583 |
Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg have devised a programme which takes in a wide spectrum of emotions: from the pastoral joyfulness of By a fountain and the melancholy of In darkness let me dwell, we are led via the desperation and drama of Bess of Bedlam to the conviction expressed in Music for a while that music has the power to vanquish even death. Interspersing the songs are lute solos, including Dowland’s immortal Lachrimae, but also Lindberg’s own transcriptions of Purcell pieces such as The Cibell and the Echo Dance of the Furies from Dido and Aeneas, performed on Lindberg’s unique four-hundred year old instrument. Kirkby and Lindberg are musical partners of long standing, with earlier collaborations on BIS including Musique and Sweet Poetrie (BISSACD1505), a survey of the lute song across Europe around the year 1600. ‘A grand tour conducted by a pair of ideal guides’ was how the reviewer in Gramophone described that disc, while his colleague in International Record Review found that the ‘undeniably glorious performances’ made the disc ‘a journey well worth making’. “Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection with the words in this recital...[her] 'Bess of Bedlam' is more sympathetic than most, and her 'Music for a While' is more enigmatic. The voice may be less beautiful than it was, but her singing is more beautiful than ever.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2011 **** “Few singers are quite a compelling with only a lute for company: Kirkby's phrasing has impeccable light and shade, and her authoritative articulation of melancholic sentiments is simply first-class...her gripping interpretation [of In darkness let me dwell] is devoid of complacence; moreover, her intonation and technique in florid music has lost none of its sparkle and precision.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2011 “Kirkby embellishes with taste and discretion...Both [she] and Lindberg are especially good here in the last Dowland item, 'In darkness let me dwell'...the tempo well judged, the lute part a translucent garment draped over Kirkby's highly expressive delivery.” International Record Review, May 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| | Janet Baker in Conversation with Marjorie Anderson | Barringcloe: | A Divine Hymn - Jehovah Reigns | Fauré: | Mandoline, Op. 58 No. 1 (Verlaine) En sourdine, Op. 58 No. 2 (Verlaine) Soir Op. 83 No. 2 Fleur jetée, Op. 39 No. 2 Fleur jetée, Op. 39 No. 2 | Gounod: | Vous qui faîtes l'endormie (from Faust) | Gratiani: | Velut palma, velut rosa | Handel: | Joshua: Oh! had I Jubal's lyre | Humfrey: | A Hymne to God the Father | Monteverdi: | Quel sguardo sdegnosetto Libro Nono di Magrigali e Canzonette: Si dolce è'l tormento Maledetto sia l'aspetto | Purcell: | O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574) Pursuing Beauty (from Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady, Z588) Ah! cruel, bloody fate (from Theodosius or The Force of Love, Z606) | Schubert: | Schwestergruss, D762 (Bruchmann) Liebe schwarmt auf allen Wegen, D239 No. 6 (Goethe) Hin und wieder fliegen Pfeile, D239 No. 3 (Goethe) An die untergehende Sonne, D457 An Herrn Josef von Spaun, Assessor in Linz (Epistel), D749 (Collin) |
Recorded: Aldeburgh Festival, 14 June 1971 / BBC Studios, London, 22 October 1969 (interview) | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Ah! How Sweet It Is To LoveSongs for the theatre
Clarke, Jeremiah: | Long has Pastora rul'd the Plain So sweets the charms of Love Suite in F minor Alas, here lies the poor Alonzo Slain Divine Astrea hither flew Lord, what's come to my Mother I'se no more to Shady Coverts Jockey was a dawdy Lad The Bonny grey Ey'd Morn Jockey was as brisk and blith a Lad | Eccles, J: | Stay, Ah turn Love is an empty, airy name If I hear Orinda swear E'er since you came into my Sight My Lover has an inconstant Mind I'll hurry thee hence I burn my brain consumes to ashes | Purcell: | Ah! how sweet it is to love (from Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr, Z613) I sigh'd and owned my Love (from The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery, Z595) Celia is soft Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585) Suite No. 7 in D minor, Z 668 Whilst l with Grief did on you look (from The Spanish Friar or The Double Discovery, Z610) Oh! how you protest...'Twas within a furlong, (from The Mock Marriage, Z605) Man is for the woman made (from The Mock Marriage, Z605) Ah me! to many deaths (from Regulus or The Faction of Carthage, Z586) O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574) Lads and Lasses, blith and gay (from Don Quixote, Z578) |
Carolyn Sinclair (soprano), Michel Jarvis (harpsichord), Margaret Gay (baroque cello) | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Now What is Love?Aspects of Love in the 17th Century
Glenda Simpson (mezzo-soprano), Barry Mason (lute, baroque guitar & chitarrone) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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