Purcell: Songs; Instrumental Music

Track Listing

1. Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Strike the viol
2. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas (The Queen's Epicedium), song, Z. 383
3. Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Here the Deities approve
4. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
5. Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanias"), song, Z. 585/1

1. Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Strike the viol
2. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas (The Queen's Epicedium), song, Z. 383
3. Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Here the Deities approve
4. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
5. Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanias"), song, Z. 585/1
6. Oedipus, incidental music, Z. 583: Music for a while
7. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
8. In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, sacred song for soprano & continuo, Z. 190
9. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ("An Evening Hymn"), Z. 193
10. Chaconne (Curtain tune from "Timon of Athens"), for harpsichord in G minor, ZT 680
11. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627
12. Timon of Athens, semi-opera, Z. 632: Curtain Tune