Purcell - The Complete Odes & Welcome Songs - Robert King - Box Set 8CDs

 

Label : Hyperion

Format : Ape

Cover : Yes

Tracklist :

CD 1 :

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

"Arise, my muse" Z 320 (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1690)

"Welcome to all the pleasures" Z339 (Ode for St.Cecilia's Day, 1683)

"Now does the glorious day appear" Z332 (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1689)

CD 2 :

"Hail! bright Cecilia" (Ode for Cecilia's Day, 1692)

"Who can from joi refrain ?" (Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester, 1695)

CD 3 :

"Fly, bold rebellion", Z324 

"Sound the trumpet, beat the drum", Z335

"Celebrate this Festival", Z321

CD 4 :

"Ye tuneful Muses", Z344 

"Celestial music did the gods inspire", Z322

"From hardy climes and dangerous toils of war", Z325

CD 5 :

"Welcome, welcome, glorious morn", Z338 

"Great parent, hail to thee", Z327 

"The summer's absence unconcerned we bear", Z337 

CD 6 :

"Love's goddes sure was blind", Z331 

"Raise, raise the voice", Z334

"Laudate Ceciliam", Z329

"From those serene and rapturous joys", Z326

CD 7 :

"Of old, when heroes thought it base", Z333

"Swifter, Isis, swifter flow", Z336 

"What, what shall be done in behalf of the man", Z341 

CD 8 :

"Come ye sons of Art, away", Z323 

"Welcome, viceregent of the mighty King", Z340 

"Why, why are all the Muses mute", Z343 

The King's Consort (Gillian Gisher, Tessa Bonner - sopranos, James Bowman, Michael Chance - countertenors, Charles Daniels - tenor, alto, John Mark Ainsley - tenor, Michael George, Charles Pott - basses)

Robert King