Purcell: Songs and Airs

1. 1
   O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406
   5:24
2. 2
   Tyrannic Love, Z. 613: No. 2, Song. "Ah! How Sweet It Is to Love"
   1:51
3. 3
   Not All My Torments Can Your Pity Move, Z. 400
   2:24
4. 4
   Stripp'd of Their Green, Z. 444
   3:25
5. 5
   Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel, Z. 196
   7:10
6. 6
   If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379
   3:21
7. 7
   The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Song. "Hark! the Echoing Air"
   2:11
8. 8
   The Fatal Hour Comes on Apace, Z. 421
   4:00
9. 9
   Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas, Z. 383
   7:19
10. 10
    Pausanias, Z. 585: No. 1, Song. "Sweeter Than Roses"
    2:59
11. 11
    Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive, Z. 367
    2:35
12. 12
    From Silent Shades, Z. 370
    4:13
13. 13
    The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: Song. "Dear Pretty Youth" (Dorinda)
    1:58
14. 14
    Don Quixote, Z. 578: No. 9, Song. "From Rosie Bow'rs"
    5:45
15. 15
    Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light, Z. 193
    5:24
16. 16
    Sophonisba, Z. 590: No. 1, Song. "Beneath a Poplar's Shadow"
    1:58
17. 17
    I attempt from love's sickness to fly, Z. 630
    2:01
18. 18
    Dioclesian, Z. 627, Act V: Song. "Let Us Dance"
    1:28
19. 19
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Fairest isle
    2:37
20. 20
    O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406
    6:11
21. 21
    The Libertine, Z. 600: No. 1, Song. "Nymphs and Sheperds"
    2:12
22. 22
    Amidst the Shades and Cool Refreshing Streams, Z. 355
    3:05
23. 23
    Timon of Athens, Z. 632: Song. "Love in Their Little Veins" (Nymph)
    1:31
24. 24
    Fly Swift, Ye Hours, Z. 369
    5:24
25. 25
    The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act IV: "They Tell Us" - Fourth Act Tune - "To Suffer for Him" (Orazia)
    3:22
26. 26
    The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: The Plaint. "O Let Me Ever, Ever Weep"
    8:12
27. 27
    In the Black, Dismal Dungeon of Despair, Z. 190
    3:59
28. 28
    The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II. Song. "See, Even Night Herself Is Here"
    4:52
29. 29
    The Indian Queen, Z. 630: Prologue. "Why Should Men Quarrel" (Indian Girl)
    1:26
30. 30
    The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act III: "Seek Not to Know" (God of Dreams)
    3:56
31. 31
    The History of King Richard the Second, Z. 581: Song. "Retir'd from Mortals' Sight"
    4:08
32. 32
    The Libertine, Z. 600: No. 3, Prelude and Song. "To Arms, Heroic Prince"
    3:10
33. 33
    Bonduca, or the British Heroine, Z. 574, Act 5: "Oh! Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom" (Bonvica)
    2:51
34. 34
    The Tempest, Z. 631, Act V: Song. "Halcyon Days" (Amphitrite)
    2:57
35. 35
    Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 "Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday": No. 7, Aria. "Bid the Virtues"
    2:57
36. 36
    Lord, What Is Man, Z. 192
    5:34
37. 37
    Oedipus, Z. 583: Music for a while
    3:55
38. 38
    If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379
    2:05
39. 39
    Sawney Is a Bonny Lad, Z. 412
    1:49
40. 40
    The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III. Song. "When I Have Often Heard"
    3:14
41. 41
    Theodosius, Z. 606: No. 9, Song. "Ah! Cruel, Bloody Fate"
    2:27
42. 42
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Recitative. "Thy Hand, Belinda" - Song. "When I Am Laid in Earth" (Dido)
    4:24

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