Purcell: Music for a While (1979)

Track Listing

1. O let me weep ("The Plaint" from "The Fairy Queen"), aria, Z. 629/40
2. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
3. I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (from "The Indian Queen"), Z630/17h
4. Fairest Isle (from "King Arthur"), aria for soprano, Z. 628/38
5. Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanias"), song, Z. 585/1

1. O let me weep ("The Plaint" from "The Fairy Queen"), aria, Z. 629/40
2. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
3. I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (from "The Indian Queen"), Z630/17h
4. Fairest Isle (from "King Arthur"), aria for soprano, Z. 628/38
5. Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanias"), song, Z. 585/1
6. Not all my torments can your pity move, song, Z. 400
7. Thrice Happy Lovers (Epithalamium from "The Fairy Queen"), aria for soprano, Z. 629/39bc
8. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ("An Evening Hymn"), Z. 193
9. From rosie bow'rs (from "Don Quixote"), song, Z. 578/9
10. O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from "Bonduca"), song, Z. 574/17
11. Retir'd from any mortal's sight (from "The History of King Richard II"), song, Z. 581/1
12. Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2
13. Since from my dear Astrea's sight (from "Prophetess"), aria for soprano, Z. 627/App2
14. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406