Purcell: Fifteen Songs and Arias

Description

A collection of vocal solos composed by Henry Purcell.

Contents:
• Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (from Dido and Aeneas)
• Dido's Farewel: When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
• Mystery's Song: I am come to lock all fast (from The Fairy Queen)
• When I have often heard young maids complaining (from The Fairy Queen)
• Epithalamium: Thrice happy lovers (from The Fairy Queen)
• The Plaint: Oh! let me for ever weep (from The Fairy Queen)
• Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice (from The Fairy Queen)
• Venus's Song: Fairest isle, all isles excelling (from King Arthur)
• I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen)
• Amphitrite's Song: Halcyon days, now wars are over (from The Tempest)
• Bonvica's Song: Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca)
• Altisidora's Song: From rosy bow'rs (from Don Quixote)
• Retir'd from any mortal's sight (from King Richard the Second)
• Thus to a ripe consenting maid (from The Old Bachelor)
• Sweeter than roses (from Pausanias)

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