Purcell & Handel: Theatre Music [Nancy Argenta, Monica Huggett]

Theatre Music

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

2 Arias & Spirit Music from Alcina

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Excerpts from King Arthur

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Music to Ben Jonson's "The Alchymist"

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Excerpts from The Married Beau

2 Arias from The Fairy Queen

Nancy Argenta (soprano)

CBC Vancouver Orchestra

Monica Huggett

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Henry Purcell - Halcyon Days [Nancy Argenta]

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Songs from court, chapel and stage

Nymphs and Shepherds

Admidst the shades and cool refreshing streams

Love in their little veins inspires

Fly swift, ye hours

They tell us that your mighty powers

The Plaint: Oh let me weep

In the black,dismal dungeon of dispair

See,even Night herself is here

Why should men quarrel?

Seek not to know

Retir'd from mortals' sight

To arms, heroic Prince

Oh lead me to some peaceful gloom

Halcyon days

Bid the virtues

Lord, what is man? - a Divine Hymn

Music for a while

If music be the food of love

Sawney is a bonny lad - a Scotch Song

When I have often heard young maids complaining

Ah! cruel, bloody fate

Thy hand, Belinda... When I am laid in earth

Nancy Argenta (soprano)

Nigel North (archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar)

Richard Boothby (viola da gamba)

John Toll (harpsichord, organ)

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Purcell: O Solitude [Nancy Argenta]

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

O solitude

Ah! How sweet it is to love

Not all my torments

Stripp'd of their green

Tell me, some pitying angel

If music be the food of love

Hark! Hark! the echoing air

The fatal our comes on apace

Incassum, Lesbia

Sweeter than roses

Cupid, the slyest rogue alive

From silent shades

Dear pretty youth

From rosy bow'rs

Now that the sun hath veil'd his light

Beneath a poplar's shadow

I attempt from love's sickness to fly

Let us dance

Fairest isle

O solitude

Nancy Argenta (soprano)

Nigel North (archlute, baroque guitar)

Richard Boothby (viola da gamba)

Paul Nicholson (harpsichord, organ)

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Purcell: The Fairy Queen [William Christie]

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

The Fairy Queen

Isabelle Desrochers, Lynne Dawson, Nancy Argenta, Noémi Rime, Sandrine Piau, Veronique Gens, Willemijn Van Gent (soprano)

Charles Daniels, Christophe Le Paludier, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Mark Le Brocq (counter-tenor)

Bernard Loonen, François Piolino, Thomas Randle (tenor)

François Bazola (baritone)

Bernard Deletré, George Banks-Martin, Jérôme Correas, Richard Taylor, Thomas Lander (bass)

Les Arts Florissants

William Christie

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Vivaldi: Ottone in villa [Richard Hickox]

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Ottone in villa

Nancy Argenta (soprano)

Susan Gritton (soprano)

Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Sophie Daneman (soprano)

Collegium Musicum 90

Richard Hickox

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Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantatas [Nancy Argenta, Chandos Baroque Players]

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

Cantata pastorale per la natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo
Là dove a Mergellina
Quella pace gradita
Dove voli, o mio pensiero?
Aure leggiere, fermate il voto
Le violette
Hor che di Febo

Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Chandos Baroque Players

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J.S. Bach: Magnificat [John Eliot Gardiner]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Magnificat in D major, BWV 243

Nancy Argenta (soprano), Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
Charles Brett (counter-tenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
David Thomas (bass)
Monteverdi Choir

Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'

Emma Kirkby (soprano)

English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner

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Vivaldi • Corelli • A. Scarlatti: Gloria [Trevor Pinnock]

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

O di Betlemme altera

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 8 in G minor 'Fatto per la notte di Natale'

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Gloria RV589

Nancy Argenta (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano)
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto)
Choir of the English Concert
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock

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