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Purcell, Henry - The Purcell Collection

Catalogue No: BHI93377
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The Purcell Collection - Realizations by Benjamin Britten

 

Most of the distinctive Purcell realisations by Benjamin Britten, vocal parts edited by Peter Pears, have been out of print for some years. This new edition collects 45 pieces for medium/low voice. Includes 9 songs from Harmonia Sacra, 24 solo songs and six duets from Orpheus Britannicus, “The Queens Epicedium,” and selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen.

Songs set by the ABRSM:

  • Purcell - Man is for Woman Made (from The Mock Marriage Z605) (in Ab (c'-eb") AB 4)

  • Purcell - Fairest Isle from King Arthur (in F (c'-eb") AB 5)

  • Purcell - I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (in F (b-d") AB 5)

  • Purcell - If Music Be the Food of Love (1st Setting Z379a) (in D minor (a-d") AB 7)

  • Purcell - Ah! Belinda (from Dido and Aeneas Z626) (in C minor (c'-f") AB 8)

  • Purcell - Music for a While (from Oedipus Z583) (in D min (a-bb') AB 8)

 

Instrumentation: Medium/low Voice And Piano
Arranger: Walters, Richard
Editor: Britten, Benjamin / Pears, Peter
Language: English
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, New York
ISMN: M-051-93377-8
ISBN: 979-0-051-93377-8

Contents

  • Tis holiday
  • A Morning Hymn
  • Ah, Belinda! I am prest with torment
  • Alleluia
  • But ere we this perform
  • Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa
  • Evening Hymn
  • Fairest Isle
  • Fear no danger to ensue
  • Hark the eching air
  • How blest are shepherds
  • I attempt from loves sickness
  • I spy Celia
  • I take no pleasure
  • Ill sail upon the Dog-star
  • If music be the food of love (1st version)
  • If music be the food of love (3rd version)
  • In the black dismal dungeon of despair
  • Jobs Curse
  • Let sullen discord smile
  • Lord, what is man
  • Lost is my quiet
  • Mad Bess
  • Man is for the woman made
  • Music for a while
  • No, resistance is but vain
  • Not all my torments
  • On the brow of Richmond Hill
  • Pious Celinda
  • Saul and the Witch at Endor
  • Shepherd, leave decoying
  • So when the glittering Queen of Night
  • Sound fame thy brazen trumpet
  • Sound the trumpet
  • Sweeter than roses
  • Take not a womans anger ill
  • The Blessed Virgins Expostulation
  • The Queens Epicedium
  • Theres not a swain of the plain
  • Thou tunst this world
  • Turn then thine eyes
  • We sing to him
  • What can we poor females do?
  • When I am laid in earth
  • Why should men quarrel?

 

 

BHI93377

Specifications

Arrangement
Medium/low voice and piano
Product Format
Sheet Music
ISBN
9781423418160 (1423418166)
ISMN
9790051933778 (M051933778)
Alternative Item Code
HL48019096