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The Purcell Collection

Catalogue No: BHI93376
Realizations by Benjamin Britten

Arrangementhigh voice and piano
Product FormatSheet Music
ComposerPurcell, Henry
ArrangerBritten, Benjamin / Pears, Peter
EditorWalters, Richard
£32.50
Typically dispatched in 5-7 working days
Grade of Difficultyadvanced - difficult
ISBN9781423422525 (142342252X)
ISMN9790051933761 (M051933761)
UPC884088017446
Most of the distinctive Purcell realisations by Benjamin Britten, with vocal parts edited by Peter Pears, have been out of print for some years. This new edition collects 50 pieces for high voice. Includes 9 songs from Harmonia Sacra, 24 solo songs and 6 duets from Orpheus Britannicus, “The Queen's Epicedium,” and selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen.

Contents

  1. 'Tis holiday -A Morning Hymn
  2. Ah, Belinda! I am prest with torment
  3. Alleluia
  4. But ere we this perform
  5. Come away, fellow sailors
  6. Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa
  7. Evening Hymn
  8. Fairest Isle
  9. Fear no danger to ensue
  10. Hark the ech'ing air
  11. How blest are shepherds
  12. I attempt from love's sickness
  13. I spy Celia
  14. I take no pleasure
  15. I'll sail upon the Dog-star
  16. If music be the food of love (3rd version)
  17. If music be the food of love (1st version)
  18. In the black dismal dungeon of despair
  19. Job's Curse
  20. Let sullen discord smile
  21. Lord, what is man
  22. Lost is my quiet
  23. Mad Bess
  24. Man is for the woman made
  25. Music for a while
  26. No, resistance is but vain
  27. Not all my torments
  28. Oft she visits this lov'd mountain
  29. On the brow of Richmond Hill
  30. Pious Celinda
  31. Pursue thy conquest, love
  32. Saul and the Witch at Endor
  33. Shake the cloud from off your brow
  34. Shepherd, leave decoying
  35. So when the glittering Queen of Night
  36. Sound fame thy brazen trumpet
  37. Sound the trumpet
  38. Sweeter than roses
  39. Take not a woman's anger ill
  40. Thanks to these lonesome vales
  41. The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation -The Queen's Epicedium
  42. There's not a swain of the plain
  43. Thou tun'st this world
  44. Turn then thine eyes
  45. We sing to him
  46. What can we poor females do?
  47. When I am laid in earth
  48. Why should men quarrel?
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