PURCELL HENRY - THE PURCELL COLLECTION - HIGH VOICE AND PIANO

Realizations by Benjamin Britten

Instrumentation : high voice and piano
Description :
Most of the distinctive Purcell realisations by Benjamin Britten, with vocal parts edited by Peter Pears, have been out of print for some years. This new edition collects 5 pieces for high voice. Includes 9 songs from Harmonia Sacra, 24 solo songs and 6 duets from Orpheus Britannicus, “The Queen's Epicedium,” and selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen.

Contenu : 'Tis holiday -A Morning Hymn - Ah, Belinda! I am prest with torment - Alleluia - But ere we this perform - Come away, fellow sailors - Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa - Evening Hymn - Fairest Isle - Fear no danger to ensue - Hark the ech'ing air - How blest are shepherds - I attempt from love's sickness - I spy Celia - I take no pleasure - I'll sail upon the Dog-star - If music be the food of love (3rd version) - If music be the food of love (1st version) - In the black dismal dungeon of despair - Job's Curse - Let sullen discord smile - Lord, what is man - Lost is my quiet - Mad Bess - Man is for the woman made - Music for a while - No, resistance is but vain - Not all my torments - Oft she visits this lov'd mountain - On the brow of Richmond Hill - Pious Celinda - Pursue thy conquest, love - Saul and the Witch at Endor - Shake the cloud from off your brow - Shepherd, leave decoying - So when the glittering Queen of Night - Sound fame thy brazen trumpet - Sound the trumpet - Sweeter than roses - Take not a woman's anger ill - Thanks to these lonesome vales - The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation -The Queen's Epicedium - There's not a swain of the plain - Thou tun'st this world - Turn then thine eyes - We sing to him - What can we poor females do? - When I am laid in earth - Why should men quarrel?

Langue : English

Fiche détaillée
Discipline/Instrument :	Voix
Catégorie :	Répertoire
Support/Media :	Livre
Editeur :	Boosey & Hawkes
Auteur/Compositeur/Interprète :	PURCELL Daniel