Songs & Sacred Arias

HENRY PURCELL

1

'Music for a while'

3:58

From Oedipus (1692)

Alfred Deller (counter tenor)

Walter Bergmann (harpsichord)

2

'I love and I must'

2:54

April Cantelo (soprano)

George Malcolm (harpsichord)

3

'Let the dreadful engines'

7:39

From Don Quixote, Part I (1694)

Maurice Bevan (baritone)

George Malcolm (harpsichord)

4

Epithalamium - 'Thrice happy lovers'

3:01

From The Fairy Queen (1692)

5

'If music be the food of love'

2:32

(1st Version, 1692)

Alfred Deller (counter tenor)

Walter Bergmann (harpsichord)

6

The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation - 'Tell me, some pitying angel' (1693)

7:45

April Cantelo (soprano)

George Malcolm (harpsichord)

7

'Not all my torments'

2:18

Alfred Deller

Walter Bergmann

8

Upon a quiet conscience - 'Close Thine Eyes' (1688)

4:16

April Cantelo

Maurice Bevan

George Malcolm

9

'Fairest Isle'

2:37

from King Arthur (1691)

10

'Sweeter than roses'

3:29

from Pausanias (1695)

11

'The fatal hour comes on apace'

4:15

12

'Crown the altar'

2:45

from Ode on Queen Mary's Birthday (1693)

13

'I attempt from love's sickness to fly' from The Indian Queen (1695)

2:14

14

'O lead me to some peaceful gloom'

3:05

from Bonduca (1695)

15

'What shall I do to show how much I love her'

3:46

from Dioclesian (1690)

16

'From Rosy Bowers'

7:10

from Don Quixote, Part III (1695)

Alfred Deller

Walter Bergmann

17

Sonata No.9 in F ('Golden Sonata')

7:32

from Sonatas of 4 Parts

18

Pavan for 3 Violins and viola da gamba

3:20

Neville Marriner, Peter Gibbs & Granville Jones (violins)

Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba)