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Purcell: | Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353 Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 I loved fair Celia, Z381 I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386 I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388 If music be the food of love Z379A In vain we dissemble, Z385 Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song'), Z371 My heart, wherever you appear Z399 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402 On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405 Rashly I swore I would disown Z411 She loves and she confesses too, Z413 Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 What a sad fate is mine, Z428A When my Aemelia smiles, Z434 Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441 Since from my dear Astrea's sight (from Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627) The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581 I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) Celia has a thousand charms from The Rival Sisters, or The Violence of Love, Z609 Music for a while, Z583 |
Maarten Koningsberger (baritone) & Fred Jacobs (theorbo) “…Koningsberger's innate musicality and subtle intelligence are evident in every phrase. …one has only to listen to the delicate vocal colourings in "Music for a while", the skilfully realised connotations of melancholy and vanitas in "If music be the food of love" and the semantically apposite executive of the ornamentation in "I attempt from love's sickness to fly" to realise the extent of Koningsberger's interpretative gifts. Add to all... Jacob's utterly sympathetic theorbo accompaniments and you have one of the best Purcell recitals to have hit the shelves in years.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 “Koningsberger's singing is sensitive, expressive in arioso, rhythmical in measured songs. 26 delightful songs but better sampled than absorbed in one go.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2012 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | AbdelazerSuites by Henry Purcell
The melody of the “Rondeau“ from Abdelazer is one of the best-known tunes today and everyone can sing it. If we try to find out who is the composer we come across the name of Benjamin Britten whose symphonic variations from A young person’s guide to the orchestra are world-famous. It is, however, not Britten’s composition but Henry Purcell’s. During the last five years of his short life Henry Purcell wrote more than 43 so-called ‘stage musics’ for theatre. In his final year in 1695, he composed the music for the tragedy Abdelazer by Aphra Behn. The tragedy Abdelazer tells the story about a slave who becomes king after many intrigues and murders. Unfortunately, only the first part of Purcell’s flamboyant suite has survived. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Ring A Ring O RosesSongs and Dances for Children
Also includes: 1. Lillibulero, Parsons Farewell, Chirping of the Lark, Cuckolds All Awry, Picking of the Sticks, Lavena, Lumps of Pudding 2. Ring around the Rosie 3. All in a garden green 4. The Duke of York 5. Golden Slumbers 6. A-Rovin' 7. The Island Princess: Three dances 8. Elsie Marley 9. This Old Man 10. When the King Enjoys His Own Again 11. Your hay is mown 12. Jenny Pluck Pears 13. The Miller of the Dee 14. Michael Finnigan 15. The Ash Grove (The Master Has Come) 16. Here's a Health unto Her Majesty 17. What shall we do with a drunken sailor? 18. Over the Hills and Far Away 19. Drive the Cold AwaY, The Mock Match, The Hole in the Wall, Goddesses (dance medley) 20. The Grenadiers March, The Old Mole, Argiers, Chirping of the Nightingale, Grimstock (dance medley) " 21. Division for trebles
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| |  | Purcell - Here Let my Life and other songs
Maute: | Concerto on the Death of Henry Purcell | Purcell: | Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Z335 Crown the altar (from Celebrate this Festival - Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, Z321) Music for a while, Z583 Here let my life (If ever I more riches did desire, Z544) Plainte - O, Let Me Weep (from The Fairy Queen, Z629) In the black dismal dungeon of despair, Z190 Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 If music be the food of love, Z379 |
“Taylor Bowman…complement each other as perfectly as coffee and cream. A close-recorded perspective ensure the words cut through with compelling detail.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2008 **** “James Bowman has been around for decades, whereas Daniel Taylor is a comparative newcomer; despite the age difference, they are equals in all respects. They are heard together in "Sound the trumpet" and "In vain the am'rous flute", the fullness of Bowman's voice nicely offset by Taylor's leaner tones.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Baroque Voices 12 - Purcell: O solitude
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: 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. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Festin Baroque
Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' | Handel: | Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon) Harp Concerto in B flat major, Op. 4 No. 6, HWV 294 | Locatelli: | Concerto grosso in F minor, Op. 1, No. 8 | Marcello, A: | Oboe Concerto in D Minor | Purcell: | Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 | Vivaldi: | Concerto in G minor for Two Cellos, RV531 Concerto, Op. 3 No. 8 'Con due Violini obligati', RV 522 |
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| |  | Purcell - Complete Ayres for the Theatre
Purcell: | Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627 King Arthur, Z628 The Fairy Queen, Z629 The Indian Queen, Z630 The Married Beau or The Curious Impertinent - incidental music, Z603 The Old Batchelor - incidental music, Z607 Amphitryon or The Two Sosias: incidental music, Z572 The Double Dealer - incidental music, Z592 Distressed Innocence or The Princess of Persia: incidental music, Z577 The Gordion Knot Untied - incidental music, Z597 Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574 The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck At Last - incidental music, Z611 Sonata while the sun rises in 'The Fairy Queen', Z629/27 Overture in G minor, Z626/1 Sir Anthony Love or, The Rambling Lady, Z588/1: Overture Music in Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater, Z632/1 Symphony in The Indian Queen, Z630/16 |
“All these works were published within 18 months of Purcell's death. The 13 suites of choice movements from plays and semi-operas, entitled A Collection of Ayres, compos'd for theTheatre, and upon other occasions, may well have been the editing work of Purcell's brother, Daniel.
Whoever it was had a rare combination of musical integrity and commercial flair: the pieces lifted from Purcell's interpolations to plays are often reordered and arranged with a deftness and charm which conveys the spirit of the theatre as well as heightening the loss and poignancy of Purcell's passing. How moving the Rondeau Minuet from The Gordian KnotUnty'd must have seemed to those who knew and loved Purcell.
As a major retrospective of Purcell's life in the theatre, the Ayres for the Theatre mainly comprise instrumental dances from their original sources, though there are several movements readapted from sung airs, such as 'Fairest isle' from King Arthur and 'If love's a sweet passion' from The Fairy Queen. The tunes are wonderful and varied, the inner part-writing skilful and the rhythmic imagination knows no bounds.
Even so, this isn't music where more than a suite at a time can be recommended for ultimate satisfaction: stop while you still want more. And more you'll most certainly want with Roy Goodman's alert and distinctive direction. If a few of the movements sound a touch mundane and lack dynamism as one follows on from another, the positive side is that the performances are never forced and rarely mannered. For the semi-opera 'suites', Goodman employs a full orchestra. What The Parley of Instruments has in abundance is a cordiality of expression which seems so absolutely right, especially in the slower airs.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Ayres for the Theatre is a wonderful collection of rich and varied, tuneful music and has been marvellously well recorded” Gramophone Magazine “The performances by Goodman and the authentic Parley of Instruments are thoroughly alive, stylish and responsive to the composer's ready invention. The recording is in every way pleasing, clear, yet full-bodied.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs
Purcell: | Draw near, you lovers Z462 While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437 Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind, Z396 I loved fair Celia, Z381 What hope for us remains now he is gone? Z472 Pastora's beauties when unblown Z407 Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 Urge me no more, Z426 Farewell, all joys Z368 If music be the food of love Z379A (first version) Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355 They say you're angry Z422 Let each gallant heart Z390 This poet sings the Trojan wars ('Anacreon's Defeat') Z423 Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353 My heart, wherever you appear Z399 On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405 Rashly I swore I would disown Z411 Since the pox or the plague Z471 Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461 Musing on cares of human fate Z467 Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still Z438 How I sigh when I think of the charms of my swain Z374 Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind Z443 Beware, poor shepherds Z361 See how the fading glories of the year Z470 Cease, anxious world, your fruitless pain Z362 O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402 I love and I must ('Bell Barr'), Z382 When her languishing eyes said 'Love!', Z432 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 Ah! cruel nymph, you give despair, Z352 Sylvia, now your scorn give over, Z420 Since one poor view has drawn my heart, Z416 I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386 Gentle shepherds, you that know the charms, Z464 If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378 She that would gain a faithful lover, Z414 Fly swift ye hours, Z369 Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song'), Z371 Phillis, talk no more of passion, Z409 Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364 In vain we dissemble, Z385 When my Aemelia smiles, Z434 Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands, Z463 What a sad fate is mine, Z428A I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388 Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, Z395 How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, Z373 She, who my poor heart possesses, Z415 Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392 When first my shepherdess and I, Z431 Through mournful shades and solitary groves, Z424 If music be the food of love (second version), Z379B Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, Z469 Who but a slave can well express, Z440 High on a throne of glitt'ring ore, Z465 Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383 She loves and she confesses too, Z413 Amintas, to my grief I see, Z356 Corinna is divinely fair, Z365 Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z357 He himself courts his own ruin, Z372 No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z468 Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z512 Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z394 Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, Z417 If music be the food of love, third version, Z379C Phyllis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z408 Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360 From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370 Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391 I came, I saw, and was undone, Z375 Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441 Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 If pray'rs and tears, Z380 In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384 Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z466 Love is now become a trade, Z393 Ask me to love no more, Z358 O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406 Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404 Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410 When Strephon found his passion vain, Z435 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412 Young Thirsis' fate, Z473 |
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| |  | Purcell: Theatre Music
Purcell: | Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570 Distressed Innocence or The Princess of Persia: incidental music, Z577 The Married Beau or The Curious Impertinent - incidental music, Z603 The Gordion Knot Untied - incidental music, Z597 Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady - incidental music, Z588 Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574 Circe: incidental music, Z575 The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck At Last - incidental music, Z611 The Old Batchelor - incidental music, Z607 Overture in G minor, Z770 Don Quixote: incidental music, Z578 Amphitryon or The Two Sosias: incidental music, Z572 The Double Dealer - incidental music, Z592 The Richmond Heiress or A Woman Once in the Right, Z608 The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love - incidental music, Z609 Henry the Second, King of England: incidental music, Z580 Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr - incidental music, Z613 Overture in G minor Z772 Theodosius, or The Force of Love - incidental music, Z606 The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed - incidental music, Z600 Thy genius lo! (from The Massacre of Paris, Z604) Oedipus: incidental music, Z583 The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581 Sir Barnaby Whigg or No Wit Like a Woman's: Blow, Blow, Boreas blow, Z589 Beneath a poplar's shadow (from Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow, Z590) My wife has a tongue (from The English Lawyer, Z594) A Fool's Preferment, or The Three Dukes of Dunstable: incidental music, Z571 The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico: I look'd and saw within, Z598 The Knight of Malta: At the close of the ev'ning, Z599 A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne: Why, my Daphne, why complaining, Z525 The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - incidental music, Z612 No, no, poor suff'ring heart (from Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, Z576) Ah me! to many deaths (from Regulus or The Faction of Carthage, Z586) The Marriage-Hater Match'd: incidental music, Z602 How happy's the husband (from Love Triumphant or Nature Will Prevail, Z582) There's not a swain (from Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z587) The Female Virtuosos: Love, thou art best, Z596 Epsom Wells: Leave these useless arts, Z579 The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - incidental music, Z601 I see she flies me ev'rywhere (from Aureng-Zebe or The Great Mogul, Z573) The Canterbury Guests or A Bargain Broken: Good neighbour why?, Z591 The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery - incidental music, Z595 The Spanish Friar or The Double Discovery: Whilst I with grief, Z610 Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country: incidental music, Z585 Oh! how you protest...'Twas within a furlong, (from The Mock Marriage, Z605) Oroonoko: Celemene, pray tell me, Z584 Pavan in A major Z748 Pavan in A minor Z749 Pavan in B flat major, Z750 Pavan in G minor Z751 Pavan for Three Violins and Bass in G minor - Z752 Trio Sonata, for violin, bass viol and organ, Z780 Chacony in G minor - for Two Violins, Viola and Bass Z730 |
Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Elizabeth Lane, Joy Roberts, Prudence Lloyd (sopranos), James Bowman (countertenor), Martyn Hill, Rogers Covey-Crump, Paul Elliott, Alan Byers, Peter Bamber, Julian Pike (tenors), David Thomas, Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, Michael George (basses) Academy of Ancient Music, The Taverner Choir, Christopher Hogwood | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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