 
Purcell Songs and Sacred Arias
RRC1366
REISSUE
Playing time: 75'00"
Tracks: 18
Booklet pages: 4
Reviewer: George Balcombe
Review of Purcell Songs and Sacred Arias published on 19 September 2011
The Deller Consort
Henry Purcell:
1 Music for a while (Oedipus, 1692)
Alfred Deller, counter tenor
Walter Bergmann, harpsichord
2 I love and I must
April Cantelo, soprano
George Malcolm, harpsichord
3 Let the dreadful engines (Don Quixote Part I, 1694)
Maurice Bevan, baritone
George Malcolm, harpsichord
4 Epithalamium - 'Thrice happy lovers' (The Fairy Queen, 1692)
5 If music be the food of love (1st version, 1692)
Alfred Deller, counter tenor
Walter Bergmann, harpsichord
6 The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation - 'Tell me, some pitying angel' (1693)
April Cantelo, soprano
George Malcolm, harpsichord
7 Not all my torments
Alfred Deller, counter tenor
Walter Bergmann, harpsichord
8 Upon a quiet conscience - 'Close Thine Eyes' (1688)
April Cantelo, soprano
Maurice Bevan, baritone
George Malcolm, harpsichord
9 Fairest Isle (King Arthur, 1691)
10 Sweeter than roses (Pausanias, 1695)
11 The fatal hour comes on apace
12 Crown the altar (Ode on Queen Mary's birthday, 1693)
13 I attempt from love's sickness to fly (The Indian Queen, 1695)
14 O lead me to some peaceful gloom (Bonduca, 1695)
15 What shall I do to show how much I love her (Dioclesian, 1690)
16 From Rosy Bowers (Don Quixote Part III, 1695)
Alfred Deller, counter tenor
Walter Bergmann, harpsichord
17 Sonata No 9 in F (Golden Sonata) (Sonatas of 4 Parts)
18 Pavan for 3 Violins and viola da gamba
Neville Marriner, violin
Peter Gibbs, violin
Granville Jones, violin
Desmond Dupre, viola da gamba
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