O Solitude: Songs & Airs [Import]

Purcell (Artist), Argenta (Artist), North (Artist), Boothby (Artist), Nicholson (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 9, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Classics Imports
• ASIN: B000025FZD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #560,873 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. O Solitude - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North

2. Ah! How Sweet It Is To Love - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

3. Not All My Torments - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Paul Nicholson

4. Stripp'd Of Their Green - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

5. Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

6. If Music Be The Food Of Love - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

7. Hark! Hark! The Echoing Air - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

8. The Fatal Hour Comes On Apace - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North

9. Incassum, Lesbia - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Paul Nicholson

10. Sweeter Than Roses - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby

11. Cupid, The Slyest Rogue Alive - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

12. From Silent Shades - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

13. Dear Pretty Youth - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby

14. From Rosy Bow'rs - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

15. Now That The Sun Hath Veil'd His Light - Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson

16. Beneath A Poplar's Shadow - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby

17. I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly - Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson

18. Let Us Dance - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson

19. Fairest Isle - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North

20. O Solitude - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby

Customer Reviews

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0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars May be High Point of English Song, June 3, 2007

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B. Marold "Bruce W. Marold" (Bethlehem, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: O Solitude: Songs & Airs (Audio CD)

Whenever I listen to any renditions of English art songs, going from Elizabethan times to the modern, as by Percy Grainger, I always dispair at how uninteresting they are when compared to the great German, French, and Italian art song repetoires. It seems as if the English can never quite wrest their genre from its folk roots and become a 'classic' music realization. I cringe at the Shakspearean 'hey nonny nonnies' and the 19th century compositions, none of which are as good even as Stephen Foster at his best.

But here is Purcell, and I believe I've found an author of English song I can really enjoy. To be sure, he has not entirely kicked the straw from all of the lyrics, but out of this 74 minutes of performance, I can easily listen to it many times over. And, as it stands at the moment, the prices for these CD's are a real bargain, if you like English song.