Purcell: Theatre Music

1. 1
   Overture
   3:21
2. 2
   Purcell: Abdelazer, Z.570: Rondeau - Air - Air - Minuet
   5:14
3. 3
   Purcell: Abdelazer, Z.570: Air - Jig - Hornpipe - Air
   4:06
4. 4
   Lucinda Is Bewitching Fair
   3:25
5. 5
   Purcell: Distressed Innocence, Z.577: Overture
   1:38
6. 6
   Air - Slow Air - Air - Hornpipe Or Jig
   4:34
7. 7
   Purcell: Distressed Innocence, Z.577: Rondeau - Air - Minuet
   2:59
8. 8
   Purcell: The Married Beau, Z.603: Overture
   2:21
9. 9
   Purcell: The Married Beau, Z.603: Slow Air - Hornpipe
   1:45
10. 10
    Purcell: The Married Beau, Z.603: Air - Hornpipe - Jig
    3:31
11. 11
    Trumpet Air - March - Hornpipe On A Ground
    4:43
12. 12
    See Where Repenting Celia Lies
    2:14
13. 13
    Purcell: The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597: Overture
    2:31
14. 14
    Purcell: The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597: Air - Rondeau Minuet - Air - Jig
    4:11
15. 15
    Purcell: The Gordian Knot Untied, Z.597: Chaconne - Air - Minuet
    3:46
16. 16
    Purcell: Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588: Overture
    2:14
17. 17
    Purcell: Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588: Pursuing Beauty
    4:08
18. 18
    Purcell: Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588: No more, Sir, no more
    2:22
19. 19
    Purcell: Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588: In vain Clemene
    3:11
20. 20
    Purcell: Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588: Ground
    3:47
21. 21
    Purcell: Bonduca: Overture
    2:35
22. 22
    Purcell: Bonduca: Air - Hornpipe - Air
    3:29
23. 23
    Purcell: Bonduca: Hornpipe - Air - Minuet
    2:55
24. 24
    Purcell: Bonduca: Jack thou'rt a toper
    1:53
25. 25
    Purcell: Bonduca: Hear us, great Rugwith
    2:56
26. 26
    Purcell: Bonduca: Hear, ye Gods of Britain
    1:16
27. 27
    Purcell: Bonduca: Sing, sing, ye Druids
    2:45
28. 28
    Purcell: Bonduca: Divine Andante, president of war
    0:51
29. 29
    Purcell: Bonduca: To arms
    2:09
30. 30
    Purcell: Bonduca: Britons strike home
    2:45
31. 31
    Purcell: Bonduca: O lead me to some peaceful gloom
    2:42
32. 32
    Purcell: Circe: We must assemble by a sacrifice
    2:35
33. 33
    Purcell: Circe: Their necessary aid you use
    3:17
34. 34
    Purcell: Circe: Come every demon
    3:25
35. 35
    Purcell: Circe: Lovers who to their first embraces go
    3:16
36. 36
    Purcell: Circe: Magicians' Dance . . . Pluto, arise!
    2:38
37. 37
    Purcell: The Virtuous Wife: Overture
    2:13
38. 38
    Purcell: The Virtuous Wife: Song tune - Slow Air - Air
    4:48
39. 39
    Purcell: The Virtuous Wife: Preludio - Hornpipe - Minuet - Minuet (1st Act Tune)
    6:11
40. 40
    Purcell: The Old Bachelor: Overture
    2:23
41. 41
    Purcell: The Old Bachelor: Hornpipe
    1:02
42. 42
    Purcell: The Old Bachelor: Thus to a ripe consenting maid
    2:24
43. 43
    Purcell: The Old Bachelor: Slow Air - Hornpipe
    1:58
44. 44
    Purcell: The Old Bachelor: As Amoret and Thyrsis
    2:26
45. 45
    Purcell: The Old Bachelor, Z.607: Rondeau - Menuet - Boree - March - Jig
    4:12
46. 46
    Purcell: Overture in G minor, Z.770
    1:55
47. 47
    Purcell: Don Quixote: Sing all ye muses
    3:45
48. 48
    Purcell: Don Quixote: When the world first knew creation
    2:19
49. 49
    Purcell: Don Quixote: Let the dreadful engines
    6:33
50. 50
    Purcell: Don Quixote: With this sacred charming wand
    9:08
51. 51
    Purcell: Don Quixote: Since times are so bad
    5:20
52. 52
    Purcell: Don Quixote: Genius of England
    4:30
53. 53
    Purcell: Don Quixote: Lads and Lasses
    1:44
54. 54
    Purcell: Don Quixote: From rosy bowers
    6:01
55. 55
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: Overture -
    2:38
56. 56
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: Saraband
    1:11
57. 57
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: Celia, that I once was blest
    2:38
58. 58
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias, Z.572: Hornpipe - Scotch Tune
    2:15
59. 59
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: For Iris I sigh
    2:41
60. 60
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: Air - Minuet - Hornpipe
    2:35
61. 61
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: Fair Iris and her Swain
    4:38
62. 62
    Purcell: Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: Bourrée
    0:49
63. 63
    Purcell: The Double Dealer: Overture
    2:48
64. 64
    Purcell: The Double Dealer: Hornpipe-Minuet-Air-Hornpipe
    4:14
65. 65
    Purcell: The Double Dealer: Cynthia frowns
    2:27
66. 66
    Purcell: The Double Dealer: Minuet-Minuet-Air-Air
    4:34
67. 67
    Purcell: The Richmond Heiress or A Woman Once in the Right: Song: Behold the Man
    8:31
68. 68
    Purcell: The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609): Overture
    3:30
69. 69
    Purcell: The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609): Celia has a thousand charms
    2:19
70. 70
    Purcell: The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609): Take not a woman's anger ill
    1:20
71. 71
    Purcell: The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609): How happy, how happy is she
    1:33
72. 72
    Purcell: Henry the Second, King of England (Z.580): In vain, 'gainst love, in vain I strove
    1:52
73. 73
    Purcell: Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr: Hark! my Damilcar!
    4:17
74. 74
    Purcell: Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr: Ah! how sweet it is to love
    4:23
75. 75
    Purcell: Overture in G Minor, Z.772
    3:13
76. 76
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Prepare, the rites begin
    1:42
77. 77
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Can'st thou, Marina
    2:51
78. 78
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: The gate to bliss
    2:55
79. 79
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Hark! Hark! behold the heavn'ly choir
    2:44
80. 80
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Now the fight's done
    2:19
81. 81
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Sad as death at dead of night
    2:19
82. 82
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Dream no more of pleasures past
    1:43
83. 83
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Hail to the myrtle shade
    2:35
84. 84
    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Ah! Cruel, bloody fate
    2:15
85. 85
    Purcell: The Libertine, or the Force of Love: Nymphs and Shepherds
    1:51
86. 86
    Purcell: The Libertine, or the Force of Love: We come
    1:38
87. 87
    Purcell: The Libertine, or The Force of Love, Z.600: Prelude
    1:27
88. 88
    Purcell: The Libertine, or the Force of Love: Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near
    4:37
89. 89
    Purcell: The Libertine, or the Force of Love: To arms, heroic prince
    3:16
90. 90
    Purcell: The Massacre of Paris: Thy genius, lo! (2 settings)
    6:18
91. 91
    Purcell: Oedipus: Hear, ye sullen powers below
    3:03
92. 92
    Music For A While
    3:41
93. 93
    Purcell: Oedipus: Come away, do not stay...Laius, hear
    2:21
94. 94
    Purcell: Overture in D Minor
    2:47
95. 95
    Purcell: The History of King Richard the Second (The Sicilian Usurper) - original version, 1681: Retir'd from any mortal's sight
    2:58
96. 96
    Purcell: Sir Barnaby Whigg or No Wit Like a Woman's - original version, 1681: Blow, Blow, Boreas blow
    3:41
97. 97
    Purcell: Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow - original version, 1685: Beneath the poplar's shadow
    1:48
98. 98
    Purcell: The English Lawyer - original version, 1685: My wife has a tongue
    1:25
99. 99
    Purcell: "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688: I sigh'd, and I pin'd...There's nothing so fatal... wom
    1:49
100. 100
     Purcell: "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688: Fled is my love...'Tis death alone...I'll mount to yon
     2:43
101. 101
     Purcell: "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688: I'll sail upon the Dog-Star
     1:24
102. 102
     Purcell: "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688: Jenny, 'gin you can love
     2:11
103. 103
     Purcell: "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688: If thou wilt give me back my love
     0:40
104. 104
     Purcell: The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico: I look'd and saw within
     2:04
105. 105
     Purcell: The Knight of Malta - original version, 1699: At the close of the ev'ning
     1:28
106. 106
     Purcell: A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne: Why, my Daphne, why complaining
     3:37
107. 107
     Purcell: The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - original version, 1691: Ingrateful love!
     2:28
108. 108
     Purcell: The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - original version, 1691: Hang this whining way of wooing
     1:25
109. 109
     Purcell: The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - original version, 1691: Say; Cruel Amoret...Corinna, I excuse thy face
     2:31
110. 110
     Purcell: Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero - original version: No, no, poor suff'ring heart
     2:58
111. 111
     Purcell: Regulus or The Faction of Carthage - original version, 1692: Ah me! to many deaths
     3:14
112. 112
     Purcell: The Marriage-Hater Match'd - original version, 1692: As soon as the chaos...How vile are the sordid untregue
     4:01
113. 113
     Purcell: Love Triumphant or Nature Will Prevail: How happy's the husband
     1:42
114. 114
     Purcell: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife - original version: There's not a swain
     1:11
115. 115
     Purcell: The Female Virtuosos - Thomas Wright, after Molière's 'Les Femmes savantes': Love, thou art best
     1:57
116. 116
     Purcell: Epsom Wells - original version: Leave these useless arts
     2:11
117. 117
     Purcell: The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - original version: Though you make no return
     2:07
118. 118
     Purcell: The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - original version: No, resistance is but vain
     4:13
119. 119
     Purcell: The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - original version: Tell me no more
     1:56
120. 120
     Purcell: Aureng-Zebe or The Great Mogul: I see, she flies me
     2:34
121. 121
     Purcell: The Canterbury Guests or A Bargain Broken - original version: Good neighbour why?
     3:19
122. 122
     Purcell: The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery - original version: The Danger is over
     2:15
123. 123
     Purcell: The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery - original version: I sigh'd and owned my love
     2:49
124. 124
     Purcell: The Spanish Friar or The Double Discovery - original version: Whilst I with grief
     2:43
125. 125
     Purcell: Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country. (1695), Z585 - original version: Sweeter than Roses
     3:00
126. 126
     Purcell: Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country. (1695), Z585 - original version: My dearest, my fairest
     2:35
127. 127
     Purcell: The Mock Marriage - original version: Oh! how you protest...'Twas within a furlong
     4:44
128. 128
     Purcell: Oroonoko: Celemene, pray tell me
     3:09
129. 129
     Purcell: Pavan No.1 in A major, Z.748
     3:31
130. 130
     Purcell: Pavan No.2 in A minor, Z.749
     2:54
131. 131
     Purcell: Pavan No.3 in B flat a 3, Z.750
     3:03
132. 132
     Purcell: Pavan No.4 in G minor, Z.751
     3:20
133. 133
     Purcell: Pavan No.5 in G minor a 4, Z.752
     4:08
134. 134
     Purcell: Trio Sonata, for violin, bass viol and organ, Z.780
     6:50
135. 135
     Purcell: Chacony in G minor Z 730
     4:47

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