Purcell: Victorious Love [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import]

Henry Purcell (Composer), Laurence Cummings (Performer), Carolyn Sampson (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Laurence Cummings, Carolyn Sampson
• Composer: Henry Purcell
• Audio CD (January 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B0011Z5M7Y
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,851 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #71 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Odes

Track Listings

1. Sweeter than roses (from 'Pausanius'), song, Z. 585/1

2. The fatal hour comes on apace, song, Z. 421

3. When first Amintas sued for a kiss, song, Z. 430

4. O let me weep ('The Plaint' from 'The Fairy Queen'), aria, Z. 629/40

5. They tell us that you mighty powers above (from 'The Indian Queen'), soprano aria, Z. 630/19

6. Man is for the woman made (from 'The Mock Marriage'), song, Z. 605/3

7. From silent shades and the Elysian groves (Bess of Bedlam), song, Z. 370

8. Music for a While (from 'Oedipus'), song, Z. 583/2

9. Now the night is chas'd away (from 'The Fairy Queen'), soprano aria with chorus, Z. 629/28

10. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)

11. Thrice Happy Lovers (Epithalamium from 'The Fairy Queen'), aria for soprano, Z. 629/39bc

12. Of old when heroes thought it base (Yorkshire Feast Song), ode for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 333: No. 4. The bashful Thames

13. I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (from 'The Indian Queen'), Z630/17h

14. O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, song, Z. 402

15. Fairest Isle (from 'King Arthur'), aria for soprano, Z. 628/38

16. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406

17. If love's a sweet passion (from 'The Fairy Queen'), aria for soprano with chorus, Z. 629/17b, c

18. Tell me, some pitying angel, (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), sacred song, for soprano & continuo, Z. 196

19. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ('An Evening Hymn'), Z. 193

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Purcell, Purcell, Purcell!!!, April 19, 2008

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Darin Tysdal (Bloomington, MN 55420) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Purcell: Victorious Love [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

I do not know what "historically correct" is in Purcell's music, but I assume this is very close. Being a "Purcell novice", I was pleasantly surpised to see this "greatest hits" CD which has "Music For Awhile" and "Man Is For The Woman Made", which I have accompanied on piano. Not really "historically correct". I assume this is, given my previous recordings that I have of Carolyn Sampson in Handel and Mozart. Needless to say I really like her voice and all of this music suits her, and there is plenty of it on this well filled CD. If you want a good cross-section of Purcell's music, this will do nicely.