Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary

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   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 1, Symphony
   3:44
2. 2
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 2, Chorus "Now does the glorious day appear"
   1:18
3. 3
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 3, Duet "Not any one such joy could bring" (Tenor, Second Bass)
   1:27
4. 4
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 4, Aria "This does our fertile isle with glory" (Tenor)
   2:09
5. 5
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 5, Chorus "Now does the glorious day appear"
   1:19
6. 6
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 6, Recitative "It was a work of full as great a weight" (Second Bass)
   1:51
7. 7
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 7, Aria "By beauteous softness mix'd with majesty" (First Counter-Tenor)
   2:23
8. 8
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 8, Duet "Her hero to whose conduct and whose arms" (First Bass, Second Bass)
   1:26
9. 9
   Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 9, Trio "Our dear Religion, with our Law's defence" (Soprano, First Counter-Tenor, Tenor)
   1:30
10. 10
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 10, Aria "No more shall we the great Eliza boast" (Tenor)
    1:16
11. 11
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Now does the glorious day appear), Z. 332: No. 11, Chorus "Now, now, with one united voice"
    2:07
12. 12
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 1, Symphony
    4:00
13. 13
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 2, Aria "Love's goddess sure was blind this day" (First Counter-Tenor)
    3:05
14. 14
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 3, Recitative "Those eyes, that form, that lofty mien" (First Bass)
    1:18
15. 15
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 4, Aria "Sweetness of nature and true wit" (First Counter-Tenor, Second Counter-Tenor)
    3:03
16. 16
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 5, Aria "Long may she reign over this isle" (Soprano, Chorus)
    2:12
17. 17
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 6, Aria "May her blest example chase" (Soprano)
    1:20
18. 18
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 7, Duet "Many such days may she behold" (First Counter-Tenor, Second Counter-Tenor)
    3:04
19. 19
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 8, Chorus "May she to Heaven late return"
    1:23
20. 20
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Love's goddess sure), Z. 331: No. 9, Verse with Chorus "As much as we below shall mourn" (Soprano, First Counter-Tenor, Second Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass)
    1:34
21. 21
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 1, Symphony
    3:28
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    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 2, Ritornello "Come ye Sons of Art" (First Counter-Tenor, Chorus)
    1:45
23. 23
    Purcell: Come, Ye Sons of Art Away, Z. 323: III. Sound the Trumpet, Sound, Till Around (First Counter-Tenor, Second Counter-Tenor)
    2:26
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    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 4, Ritornello "Come ye Sons of Art" (Chorus)
    1:14
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    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 5, Ritornello "Strike the viol, touch the lute" (First Counter-Tenor)
    4:25
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    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 6, Aria "The day that such a blessing gave" (First Bass, Chorus)
    2:41
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    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 7, Aria "Bid the virtues, bid the graces" (Soprano)
    2:40
28. 28
    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 8, Aria "These are the sacred charms that shield" (First Bass)
    1:33
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    Purcell: Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 9, Duet "See, Nature, rejoicing, has shown us the way" (Soprano, First Bass, Chorus)
    2:47

A Warner Classics/Erato Release, © 1992 Parlophone Records Limited