Lyrics King Arthur: Act V, sc. 2 : Fairest Isle - Henry Purcell feat. Alfred Deller, Wieland Kuijken & William Christie
Fairest
Isle,
All
isles
excelling,
Seat
of
pleasure
and
of
love,
Venus
here
shall
choose
her
dwelling
And
forsake
her
Cyprian
grove.
Cupid
from
his
fav'rite
nation
Care
and
envy
will
remove;
Jealousy
that
poisons
passion,
And
despair
that
dies
for
love.
Gentle
murmurs
sweet
complaining,
Sighs
that
blow
the
fire
of
love.
Soft
repulses,
kind
disdaining,
Shall
be
all
the
pains
you
prove.
Ev'ry
swain
shall
pay
his
duty
Grateful
ev'ry
nymph
shall
prove;
And
as
these
excel
in
beauty,
Those
shall
be
renowned
for
love.
1 The Fairy Queen: Act II - A Fairy : Come all ye songsters of the sky
2 The Fairy Queen: Prelude
3 The Fairy Queen: Three Elves : May the God of Wit inspire / While Echo shall in sounds
4 The Fairy Queen: Act III - Dialogue Corydon / Mopsa
5 The Fairy Queen: Act IV - Symphony
6 The Fairy Queen: Act V - A Chinese Man : Thus, thus the gloomy world
7 The Fairy Queen: A Chinese Woman : Thus happy and free
8 The Fairy Queen: A Chinese Man : Yes, Xansi, in your looks I find
9 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Monkey's Dance"
10 King Arthur: Act I, sc.2 : I call ye all (contre-ténor + chœur)
11 King Arthur: Act V, sc. 2 : Fairest Isle
12 The Indian Queen: Act I - Boy : Wake, Quivera, wake
13 The Indian Queen: Act III - Trumpet Overture
14 The Indian Queen: Aerial Spirits : Ah, how happy are we / We the spirits of the air
15 The Indian Queen: I attempt from love's sickness
16 Olinda
17 Thus to a ripe, consenting maid (The Old Bachelor)
18 O how happy's he (Dioclesian)
19 Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae Dernière leçon du Samedi Saint (Ténèbres)
20 Te lucis ante terminum (Cantiones sacrae)
21 Deuxième Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredy
22 Cantate Jubilate Domino p. voix seule, viole de gambe et continuo
23 In Guilty Night, Z. 134
24 Great King of Gods
25 Cantabo Domine
26 The Wind and the Rain (anonyme) Twelfth night, V, a
27 It was a lover and his lass As you like it, V, 3
28 O mistress mine Twelfth night, II, 3
29 Willow song Othello, IV, 3
30 Calleno custure me Henry V, mention à IV, 4
31 Miserere My Maker
32 I care not for these ladies
33 What then is love
34 The glory of Arcadian grove
35 If music be the food of love
36 From rosy bow'rs
37 O Solitude
38 Infirmata vulnerata
39 The three ravens
40 Black is the colour of my true love's hair
41 Sweet nymph, come to thy lover
42 I go before my darling
43 The oak and the ash
44 Barbara Allen
45 Lord Rendall
46 Water is wide
47 The tailor and the mouse
48 Down by the sally garden's
49 I will give my love an apple
50 Miraculous Love's wounding
51 Sweet Kate
52 Bushes and briars
53 The foggy, foggy dew
54 She moved through the fair
55 Evening Prayer
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