Album lyrics Purcell: Theatre Music by

Purcell: Theatre Music

1. Regulus or The Faction of Carthage - original version, 1692: Ah me! to many deaths

2. Love Triumphant or Nature Will Prevail: How happy's the husband

3. The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - original version: Though you make no return

4. Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588: Pursuing Beauty

5. Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588: In vain Clemene

6. Aureng-Zebe or The Great Mogul: I see, she flies me

7. The Spanish Friar or The Double Discovery - original version: Whilst I with grief

8. Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country. (1695), Z585 - original version: Sweeter than Roses

9. The Mock Marriage - original version: Oh! how you protest...'Twas within a furlong

10. Bonduca: O lead me to some peaceful gloom

11. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias: For Iris I sigh

12. The Double Dealer: Cynthia frowns

13. The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609): Celia has a thousand charms

14. The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609): How happy, how happy is she

15. Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr: Ah! how sweet it is to love

16. Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Now the fight's done

17. Theodosius, or The Force of Love: Ah! Cruel, bloody fate

18. The Libertine, or the Force of Love: Nymphs and Shepherds

19. The Libertine, or the Force of Love: To arms, heroic prince

20. Oedipus, Z.583: Music For A While

21. The History of King Richard the Second (The Sicilian Usurper) - original version, 1681: Retir'd from any mortal's sight