Alfred Deller & Consort - The Purcell Album (CD)

" Vanguard's reissues of Purcell, the composer most closely associated with Alfred Deller... The purity of tone, the extraordinary resonance of lower and middle notes, the technical skill and sensitivity of his singing all remain... Stylish playing by George Malcolm and others (including young Neville Marriner)... celebrated not only Deller himself but his generation who did so much to bring Purcell out to reveal his genius" (Gramophone)

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. The Purcell Album Oedipus (1692, Z.583) - Song: Music for a While
2. King Arthur (1691, Z.628) - : Fairest Isle, All Isles Excelling
3. Pausanias (1695, Z.585) - Sweeter Than Roses
4. The Indian Queen (1695, Z.630) - I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly
5. Song: If Music Be the Food of Love (1st Version, 1692, Z.379A)
6. Welcome to All the Pleasures "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day", Z. 339 - Here the Deities Approve
7. Rejoice in the Lord Alway "Bell Anthem", (C.1682-85, Z.49) from the Fairy-Queen (1692, Z.629)
8. Mystery's Song
9. Secrecy's Song
10. Epithalamium: Thrice Happy Lovers
11. The Plaint from Dido and Aeneas (C.1688, Z.626)
12. Overture
13. Fear No Danger to Ensue
14. Thy Hand, Belinda When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)- with Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come from My Beloved Spake (1677, Z.28)
15. Ouverture (Sinfonia)
16. My Beloved Spake
17. My Beloved Is Mine from Hail! Bright Cecilia (1692, Z.328)
18. The Fife and All the Harmony of War
19. Hail! Bright Cecilia from Come Ye Sons of Art (1694, Z.323)
20. Sound the Trumpet
21. Come, Come, Ye Sons of Art
22. Strike the Viol
23. See Nature Rejoicing