Album lyrics Purcell: O Solitude by Gérard Lesne

Purcell: O Solitude

Gérard Lesne

2003 19 songs

1. O solitude, my sweetest choice! - Song, Z 406

2. If music be the food of love - Song, Z 379 (3 settings)

3. The fatal hour comes on apace - Song, Z 421

4. What a sad fate is mine - Song, Z 428 (2 versions)

5. While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep - A pastoral coronation song, Z 437

6. Air instrumental (The Indian Queen) - Semi-opera, Z 630

7. Air lent (Distressed Innocence) - Incidental Music, Z 577

8. I attempt from love's sickness instrumental - The Indian Queen, semi-opera, Z 630

9. Ask me to love no more - Song, Z 368

10. Beneath a dark and melancholy grove - Sappho's complaint, Z 461

11. Sighs for our late Sovereign Charles the Second - If pray'rs and tears, Z 380

12. Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas - The Queen's Epicidium, Z 383

13. In Cloris all soft charms agree - Song, Z 384

14. A Thousand Sev'ral Ways I Tried to Hide, Z. 459

15. Intermède instrumental

16. Bacchus is a pow'r divine - Song, Z 360

17. Song Tune instrumental

18. Young Thirsis' fate ye hills and groves deplore - On the death of Thomas Farmer, Z 473

19. Now that the sun hath veiled his light - An evening hymn, Z 193

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