Purcell Songs & Ayres

Purcell: Songs and Airs

Kirkby / Rooley / Hogwood / Mackintosh / Campbell
L'Oiseau Lyre 417 123

Contents:

1. Hark! Hark! How all things
2. Crown the altar, deck the shrine
3. If music be the food of love
4. Not all my torments
5. O, O let me weep
6. I attempt from love's sickness to fly
7. Olinda in the shades unseen
8. Urge me no more
9. Bess of Bedlam
10. Lovely, lovely Albina
11. Sweeter than roses
12. Dear pretty youth
13. When first Amintas
14. The cares of lovers
15. Ye gentle spirits
16. An evening hymn

Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Christopher Hogwood (organ, spinet), Anthony Rooley (lute), Richard Campbell (bass viol), Catherine Mackintosh (violin)

Playing time: 46'

Recording date: October 1982 (Forde Abbey, Dorset)

Some other recordings of Purcell's Songs & Ayres:

Purcell: Airs and Duets

Emma Kirkby / David Thomas / Anthony Rooley
Hyperion 66056

Purcell: O Solitude

Songs & Airs
Nancy Argenta / Nigel North / Richard Boothby / Paul Nicholson
Virgin Veritas 59234

Purcell: Orpheus Britannicus

Agnès Mellon / Christophe Rousset / Wieland Kuijken
Astrée 8757

Purcell: Orpheus Britannicus

Jill Feldman / Nigel North / Sarah Cunningham
Arcana 2

Purcell: Sweeter than Roses / Songs

Drew Minter / Paul O'Dette / Mitzi Meyerson / Mary Springfels
Harmonia Mundi "Suite" 7907035

Purcell: Tis Nature's Voice - Songs & Elegies

René Jacobs / Wieland Kuijken / Konrad Junghänel
Accent 57802

Purcell: Songs of Welcome & Farewell

Tragicomedia
Teldec 95068
Virgin Veritas 59324

Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre

The Parley of Instruments - Peter Holman
Helios 55010

Purcell: Hark how the wild musicians sing

The Symphony Songs
Red Byrd / Parley of Instruments - Peter Holman
Hyperion 66750

Purcell: Complete Ayres for the Theatre

Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra - Roy Goodman
Hyperion 67001/3 (3 CDs)

Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre

Tafelmusik - Jeanne Lamon
Sony Vivarte 66169

In addition to the above, the King's Consort is embarking on a series of the complete secular songs of Purcell on the Hyperion label, beginning with:

Purcell Songs - Volume 1

The King's Consort - Robert King
Hyperion 66710

For some similar recordings of the later English Baroque, see the discography of the Consort of Musicke. Some additional information from Jon Stringer.

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