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Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs

Barbara Bonney (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)

The King's Consort, Robert King (chamber organ, harpsichord)

This release includes a digital booklet

Contents

Purcell: Draw near, you lovers Z462

Work length4:33
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437

Work length2:16
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
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Purcell: Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind, Z396

Work length5:22
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: I loved fair Celia, Z381

Work length1:56
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: What hope for us remains now he is gone? Z472

Work length3:09
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Pastora's beauties when unblown Z407

Work length2:26
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z359

Work length0:49
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: Urge me no more, Z426

Work length3:16
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Farewell, all joys Z368

Work length1:30
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: If music be the food of love Z379A

Work length2:01
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355

Work length3:47
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: They say you're angry Z422

Work length2:32
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Let each gallant heart Z390

Work length1:51
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
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Purcell: This poet sings the Trojan wars ('Anacreon's Defeat') Z423

Work length4:10
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  • Michael George (bass)
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Purcell: Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353

Work length1:17
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: My heart, whenever you appear, Z399

Work length1:49
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405

Work length1:37
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
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Purcell: Rashly I swore I would disown Z411

Work length1:05
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: Since the pox or the plague Z471

Work length1:32
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461

Work length3:42
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Musing on cares of human fate Z467

Work length2:15
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still Z438

Work length1:58
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: How I sigh when I think of the charms of my swain Z374

Work length0:31
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
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Purcell: Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind Z443

Work length1:52
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: Beware, poor shepherds 'The Caution', Z361

Work length1:31
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: See how the fading glories of the year Z470

Work length2:56
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
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Purcell: Cease, anxious world, your fruitless pain Z362

Work length2:23
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
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Purcell: O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402

Work length5:16
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: I love and I must ('Bell Barr'), Z382

Work length2:54
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: When her languishing eyes said 'Love!', Z432

Work length0:58
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400

Work length2:33
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Ah! cruel nymph!, Z352

Work length2:38
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: Sylvia, now your scorn give over, Z420

Work length0:31
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
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Purcell: Since one poor view has drawn my heart, Z416

Work length0:35
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386

Work length0:58
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: Gentle shepherds, you that know the charms, Z464

Work length6:10
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378

Work length1:39
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: She that would gain a faithful lover, Z414

Work length2:26
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: Fly swift ye hours, Z369

Work length5:19
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song'), Z371

Work length2:33
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
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Purcell: Phillis, talk no more of passion, Z409

Work length2:04
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364

Work length1:45
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
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Purcell: In vain we dissemble, Z385

Work length2:17
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: When my Aemelia smiles, Z434

Work length2:12
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands, Z463

Work length3:16
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: What a sad fate is mine, Z428A

Work length2:46
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388

Work length1:51
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, Z395

Work length0:41
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, Z373

Work length2:20
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: She, who my poor heart possesses, Z415

Work length1:47
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392

Work length2:57
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: When first my shepherdess and I, Z431

Work length1:28
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: Through mournful shades and solitary groves, Z424

Work length3:23
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: If music be the food of love, Z379b

Work length2:01
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, Z469

Work length1:05
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Who but a slave can well express, Z440

Work length2:09
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
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Purcell: High on a throne of glitt'ring ore, Z465

Work length5:19
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383

Work length7:55
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: She loves and she confesses too, Z413

Work length2:24
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Amintas, to my grief I see, Z356

Work length1:35
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Corinna is divinely fair, Z365

Work length1:47
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z357

Work length2:26
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: He himself courts his own ruin, Z372

Work length1:12
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z468

Work length4:25
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z512

Work length1:42
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z394

Work length2:28
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, Z417

Work length1:01
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: If Music be the Food of Love, Z. 379C

Work length3:51
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z408

Work length0:37
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360

Work length3:04
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  • Michael George (bass)
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Purcell: From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370

Work length4:18
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
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Purcell: Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391

Work length1:10
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
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Purcell: I came, I saw, and was undone, Z375

Work length4:38
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441

Work length2:09
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367

Work length2:34
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: If pray'rs and tears, Z380

Work length7:44
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384

Work length2:31
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z466

Work length1:26
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Love is now become a trade, Z393

Work length1:08
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  • Charles Daniels (tenor)
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Purcell: Ask me to love no more, Z358

Work length1:38
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  • James Bowman (countertenor)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406

Work length5:36
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404

Work length1:05
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Purcell: Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410

Work length1:02
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: When Strephon found his passion vain, Z435

Work length1:11
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  • Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421

Work length3:51
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano)
  • King's Consort

Purcell: Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412

Work length1:54
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  • Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Purcell: Young Thirsis' fate, Z473

Work length5:49
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  • Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
  • King's Consort