Research Catalog

Title

O solitude [sound recording] : songs & airs / Purcell.

Author

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.

Publication

London, England : Virgin Classics, p1994.

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Additional Authors

• Argenta, Nancy
• North, Nigel
• Boothby, Richard (Violist)
• Nicholson, Paul

Description

1 sound disc (75 min.) : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Songs. Selections

Alternative Title

Songs.

Subjects

• Songs (High voice) with continuo
• Incidental music > Excerpts
• Operas > Excerpts

Note

• Virgin Classics: CDC 7 59324 2 (additional no. on container spine: 0777 7 59324 2 3).
• Songs, in part excerpts from operas or incidental music; archlute, baroque guitar, viola da gamba, harpsichord, chamber organ acc., separately or in various combinations.
• Notes by Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock, in English, French and German, and vocal texts in the same languages (the 9th song also in Latin) (43 p. : port.) inserted in container.
• Sung in English or (9th song) Latin.

Event (note)

• Recorded Oct. 1992, Studio 1, Abbey Road, London.

Contents

O solitude (5:26) -- Ah! how sweet it is to love (1:52) -- Not all my torments (2:24) -- Stripp'd of their green (3:25) -- Tell me, some pitying angel (7:10) -- If music be the food of love (3:21) -- Hark! hark! the echoing air (2:11) -- The fatal hour comes on apace (4:01) -- Incassum, Lesbia (7:21) -- Sweeter than roses (2:59) -- Cupid, the slyest rogue alive (2:35) -- From silent shades (4:13) -- Dear pretty youth (1:59) -- From rosy bow'rs (5:45) -- Now that the sun hath veil'd his light (5:20) -- Beneath a poplar's shadow (1:58) -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly (2:03) -- Let us dance (1:29) -- Fairest isle (2:37) -- O solitude (6:14).

Call Number

*LDC 9572 (F)

OCLC

30083010

Author

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.

Title

O solitude [sound recording] : songs & airs / Purcell.

Imprint

London, England : Virgin Classics, p1994.

Playing Time

000526 000152 000224 000325 000710 000321 000211 000401 000720 000259 000235 000413 000159 000545 000520 000158 000203 000129 000237 000614

Performer

Nancy Argenta, soprano ; Nigel North, archlute, baroque guitar ; Richard Boothby, viola da gamba ; Paul Nicholson, harpsichord, chamber organ.

Event

Recorded Oct. 1992, Studio 1, Abbey Road, London.

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Added Author

Argenta, Nancy. voc

North, Nigel. Instrumentalist

Boothby, Richard (Violist) Instrumentalist

Nicholson, Paul. Instrumentalist

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. O solitude, my sweetest choice.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Tyrannic love. Ah! how sweet it is to love.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Not all my torments can your pity move.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Stript of their green our groves appear.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Tell me, some pitying angel.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. If music be the food of love, Z. 379c.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Hark! the ech'ing air.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fatal hour comes on apace.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Pausanias, the betrayer of his country. Sweeter than roses.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Cupid, the slyest rogue alive.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Bess of Bedlam.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Tempest. Dear pretty youth.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Don Quixote. From rosy bow'rs.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Now that the sun hath veiled his light.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Sophonisba. Beneath the poplar's shadow.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Indian queen. I attempt from Love's sickness to fly.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Dioclesian. Let us dance.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. King Arthur. Fairest isle.

Publisher No.

CDC 7 59324 2 Virgin Classics

0777 7 59324 2 3 Virgin Classics

Research Call Number

*LDC 9572 (F) Program notes and texts on file.