The Purcell Collection

Die meisten der unverwechselbaren Purcell-Bearbeitungen von Benjamin Britten, deren Vokalstimmen seinerzeit von Peter Pears bearbeitet wurden, waren einige Jahre lang vergriffen. Diese neue Sammlung bietet 45 Stücke für mittlere/tiefe Stimmen, darunter 9 Lieder aus Harmonia Sacra, 24 Solo-Lieder und sechs Duette aus Orpheus Britannicus, The Queen's Epicedium und eine Auswahl an Stücken aus Dido und Aeneas sowie The Fairy Queen.Schwierigkeitsgrad: 4-5

'Tis holiday - A Morning Hymn - Ah, Belinda! I am prest with torment - Alleluia - But ere we this perform - Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa - Evening Hymn - Fairest Isle - Fear no danger to ensue - Hark the ech'ing air - How blest are shepherds - I attempt from love's sickness - I spy Celia - I take no pleasure - I'll sail upon the Dog-star - If music be the food of love (1st version) - If music be the food of love (3rd version) - In the black dismal dungeon of despair - Job's Curse - Let sullen discord smile - Lord, what is man - Lost is my quiet - Mad Bess - Man is for the woman made - Music for a while - No, resistance is but vain - Not all my torments - On the brow of Richmond Hill - Pious Celinda - Saul and the Witch at Endor - Shepherd, leave decoying - So when the glittering Queen of Night - Sound fame thy brazen trumpet - Sound the trumpet - Sweeter than roses - Take not a woman's anger ill - The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation - The Queen's Epicedium - There's not a swain of the plain - Thou tun'st this world - Turn then thine eyes - We sing to him - What can we poor females do? - When I am laid in earth - Why should men quarrel?