Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Purcell Realizations
CD1
The Knotting Song
Seven Songs: Fairest Isle
Seven Songs: If music be the food of love
Seven Songs: Turn then thine eyes
Seven Songs: Music for a while
Seven Songs: Pious Celinda
Seven Songs: I'll sail upon the Dog-star
Seven Songs: On the brow of Richmond Hill
Six Songs: Madd Bess
Six Songs: If music be the food of love
Six Songs: There's not a swain of the plain
Six Songs: Not all my torments
Six Songs: Man is for the Woman made
Six Songs: Sweeter than roses
O Solitude
Five Songs: I attempt from Love's sickness to fly
Five Songs: I take no pleasure
Five Songs: Hark the ech'ing air
Five Songs: Take not a woman's anger ill
Five Songs: How blest are Shepherds
Celemene
Six Duets: Sound the Trumpet
Six Duets: I spy Celia
Six Duets: Lost is my quiet
Six Duets: What can we poor females do
Six Duets: No, resistance is but vain
Six Duets: Shepherd, leave decoying
CD2
The Queen's Epicedium
The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
Saul and the Witch at Endor
Three Divine Hymns: Lord, what is man?
Three Divine Hymns: We sing to him
Three Divine Hymns: Evening Hymn
Job's Curse
Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia: A Morning Hymn
Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia: Alleluia
Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia: In the black dismal dungeon of despair
Dulcibella
When Myra sings
Let the dreadful engines of eternal will
Felicity Lott, Susan Gritton (soprano)
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)
James Bowman (countertenor)
Richard Jackson, Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Graham Johnson (piano)
(2CD, flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of basso profundo@Susato)
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