Special offer. Purcell: Music for a while & O Solitude
Alfred Deller
Wieland Kuijken, William Christie
The present record contains 13 of Purcell's most celebrated songs, each one of which is sung with intense feeling and, one feels, a familiarity with the music that only time can bring...[Deller]... — More…
Contents
Purcell: The Plaint
Purcell: If music be the food of love Z379A
Purcell: The Indian Queen: I attempt from love's sickness
Purcell: King Arthur: Act V, sc. 2 : Fairest Isle
Purcell: Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585)
Purcell: Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400
Purcell: Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium)
Purcell: An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
Purcell: From Rosy Bow'rs (from Don Quixote)
Purcell: O lead me to some peaceful gloom
Purcell: Retired from any mortal's sight
Purcell: Music for a while, Z583
Purcell: Since from my dear Astrea's sight
Purcell: O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
