Purcell: Dido & Aeneas / King Arthur / Dioclesian / Timon of Athens / 3 Odes

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   Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Overture
   2:19
2. 2
   "Shake the cloud from off your brow" - "Banish sorrow, banish care"
   1:02
3. 3
   "Ah! Belinda, I am press'd" ... "When monarchs unite, how happy"
   4:44
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   Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act I: "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?" - "Fear No Danger"
   3:32
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   Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act I: "See, Your Royal Guest Appears" - "Cupid Only Throws the Dart"
   1:26
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   Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act I: "If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake" ... "To the Hills and the Vales"
   2:19
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   Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act I: The Triumphing Dance
   1:11
8. 8
   Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: Prelude for the Witches "Wayward Sisters" ... "Ho, ho, ho"
   2:35
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   Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun" ... "But Ere We This Perform"
   2:21
10. 10
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell"
    1:41
11. 11
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: Echo Dance of Furies
    0:55
12. 12
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: Ritornelle - "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales"
    3:21
13. 13
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Oft She Visits"
    2:17
14. 14
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Behold, Upon My Bending Spear" - "Haste, Haste to Town"
    1:23
15. 15
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act II: "Stay, Prince"
    2:41
16. 16
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
    1:34
17. 17
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - The Sailors' Dance "See the flags and streamers curling"
    1:43
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    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - "Our next motion" - "Destructions's our delight"
    1:13
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    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - The Witches' Dance
    1:12
20. 20
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - "Great minds against themselves conspire"
    5:02
21. 21
    "Thy Hand, Belinda...When I Am Laid In Earth"
    4:22
22. 22
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - "With drooping wings"
    4:51
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628: First Music: Chaconne
    3:23
24. 24
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) - Second Music: I. Overture
    1:59
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) - II. Air
    1:26
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: "Woden, first to thee" / "We have sacrific'd"
    2:21
27. 27
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: "The white horse neigh'd aloud" / "To Woden thanks we render"
    1:22
28. 28
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: The Lot is cast (soprano)
    0:43
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: Brave souls
    2:34
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 1: I call ye all (Tenor)
    2:09
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    'Come if you dare' (tenor)
    4:08
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    Hither this way (Philidel)
    2:09
33. 33
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Let not a Moon-born Elf (Grimbald)
    1:12
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Hither, this way bend
    0:38
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Come follow, follow, follow me (Philidel)
    2:19
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: How blest are Shepherds (Shepherd)
    4:34
37. 37
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Shepherd, shepherd, leave Decoying (Shepherdesses)
    1:55
38. 38
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Come, shepherds
    1:30
39. 39
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air
    1:08
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Prelude
    0:24
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: What ho (Cupid)
    1:08
42. 42
    Purcell: King Arthur, Or The British Worthy, Z.628 / Act 3: What Power Art Thou (Genius)
    2:51
43. 43
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Thou Doting Fool (Cupid)
    0:54
44. 44
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Great Love, I know thee now
    1:02
45. 45
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: No part of my Dominium (Cupid)
    1:11
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Prelude
    0:51
47. 47
    See, See, We Assemble
    3:20
48. 48
    'Tis I that have warm'd ye (Cupid)
    2:11
49. 49
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: "Sound a parley" / "'Tis Love, 'tis Love, 'tis Love that has warm'd us"
    4:25
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    0:46
51. 51
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 4: Two Daughters (Syrens)
    3:06
52. 52
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 4: Passacaglia - "How happy the lover" - Ritornello - "For love ev'ry creature" - "No joys are above" - "In vain are our graces" - "Then use th
    6:07
53. 53
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air
    0:40
54. 54
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Trumpet Tune
    0:53
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Ye blust'ring brethren
    3:03
56. 56
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Symphony
    2:00
57. 57
    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Round thy coast
    2:26
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: For Folded Flocks (Countertenor, Tenor and Bass)
    3:39
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Your Hay it is Mow'd (Comus)
    2:36
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Fairest Isle (Venus)
    4:49
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Dialogue: You say, 'Tis Love (Soprano and bass)
    5:25
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: Trumpet tune
    0:40
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    Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 5: "Saint George, the patron of our Isle" - "Our natives not alone appear"
    3:32
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    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627: First Music
    2:33
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    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627: Second Music
    1:38
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    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627: Overture
    4:28
67. 67
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 1: First Act Tune
    0:46
68. 68
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Prelude - "Great Diocles the Boar has kill'd" - "Sing I's! praise the thund'ring Jove"
    2:41
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    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: "Charon the peaceful Shade invites"
    1:47
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    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Symphony
    1:37
71. 71
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: "Let all mankind the pleasure share" - "Sound all your instruments"
    0:39
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    Purcell: Dioclesian / Act 2: "Let all mankind the pleasure share"
    0:44
73. 73
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Prelude - "Let the soldiers rejoice" - "Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice"
    1:58
74. 74
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Ritornello
    0:40
75. 75
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: "To Mars let 'em raise" - "Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice"
    1:15
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    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Ritornello
    0:46
77. 77
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Symphony - "Since the toils and the hazards" - "All sing great Diocles' story"
    5:51
78. 78
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Dances Of Furies
    3:42
79. 79
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 2: Second Act Tune
    0:52
80. 80
    Purcell: Dioclesian / Act 3: Chaconne
    2:49
81. 81
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 3: "When first I saw"
    2:24
82. 82
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 3: The Chair Dance
    1:12
83. 83
    Purcell: Dioclesian / Act 3: Prelude - "What shall I do"
    5:24
84. 84
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 3: Third Act Tune
    0:43
85. 85
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 4: Butterfly Dance
    2:12
86. 86
    Purcell: Dioclesian / Act 4: Trumpet Tune
    0:42
87. 87
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 4: "Sound, Fame, thy brazen trumpet sound!" - "Let all rehearse"
    5:37
88. 88
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 4: Fourth Act Tune
    0:51
89. 89
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / Act 5: Country Dance
    0:50
90. 90
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Prelude - "Call the Nymphs"
    1:48
91. 91
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Let the Graces and Pleasures repair"
    0:56
92. 92
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Come, come away"
    1:07
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    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Prelude - "Behold, O mightiest of Gods"
    3:31
94. 94
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Paspe
    0:51
95. 95
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Oh the sweet delights of love!"
    1:50
96. 96
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Let monarchs fight" - "Hear, mighty Love!"
    5:11
97. 97
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Since from my dear Astraea's sight"
    3:14
98. 98
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Make room, make room"
    0:45
99. 99
    Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "I'm here, I'm here, with my jolly crew" - "We'll rejoice as well as you" - "The mighty Jove"
    2:19
100. 100
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Dance Of Bacchanals
     1:27
101. 101
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Still I'm wishing, still desiring"
     4:38
102. 102
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Canaries
     0:28
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     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Tell me why"
     5:41
104. 104
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Dance
     0:50
105. 105
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "All our days and our nights" - "Begone, begone, importunate reason"
     1:58
106. 106
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Let us dance, let us sing"
     1:39
107. 107
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: Dance
     0:41
108. 108
     Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 / The Masque: "Triumph, triumph victorious Love" - "Then all rehearse"
     4:13
109. 109
     Purcell: Timon of Athens: Overture
     5:42
110. 110
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 1 Duet "Hark! How the songsters of the grove"
     1:49
111. 111
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 2 Solo "Love in their little veins inspires"
     1:21
112. 112
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 3 Trio "But ah! how much are our delights"
     1:25
113. 113
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque - Nos.4&5 Solo&Chorus "Hence with your trifling deity" - "But over us no griefs prevail"
     2:34
114. 114
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: Nos.6&7 Solo&Chorus "Come all, come all to me" - "Who can resist such mighty charms?"
     3:03
115. 115
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 8 Solo "Return, revolting rebels"
     2:21
116. 116
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No.9 Solo "The cares of lovers"
     1:57
117. 117
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 10 Solo "Love quickly is pall'd"
     1:21
118. 118
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: No. 11&12 Duet&Chorus "Come, let us agree"
     2:22
119. 119
     Purcell: Timon Of Athens, Z.632 / The Masque: Curtain Tune On A Ground
     2:27
120. 120
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Overture
     3:45
121. 121
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Come, ye sons of art, away
     1:42
122. 122
     Purcell: Come, Ye Sons Of Art Away, Z. 323 - 3. Sound The Trumpet, Sound
     2:27
123. 123
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Come, ye sons of art
     1:11
124. 124
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Strike the viol, touch the lute
     4:44
125. 125
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: The day that such a blessing gave
     2:52
126. 126
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: Bid the Virtues, bid the Graces
     2:56
127. 127
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: These are the sacred charms
     1:40
128. 128
     Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, away (1694) Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II: See Nature, rejoicing
     2:44
129. 129
     Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Overture
     1:49
130. 130
     Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Welcome to all the pleasures
     1:49
131. 131
     Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: "Here the deities approve" - "While joys celestial"
     5:19
132. 132
     Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: "Then lift up your voices" - "The pow'r shall divert us a pleasanter way"
     1:43
133. 133
     Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Beauty, thou scene of love
     3:41
134. 134
     Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: In a consort of voices
     1:13
135. 135
     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Symphony
     1:18
136. 136
     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: "Of old, when heroes thought it base" - "Brigantium, honour'd with a race divine"
     3:27
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: The bashful Thames, for beauty so renowned
     3:37
138. 138
     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: The pale and the purple rose
     2:36
139. 139
     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: And in each track of glory since
     3:29
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Symphony
     1:16
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: And now when the renown'd Nassau
     1:56
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: They did no storms, nor threat'nings fear
     2:09
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: So when the glitt'ring Queen of Night
     3:36
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Let music join
     1:16
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Sound, trumpets, sound!
     2:15
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     Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (1690) The Yorkshire Feast Song: Sound all to him
     1:49

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