Description
“Janet Baker’s recording is a truly great performance. The radiant beauty of the voice is obvious enough, but the emotion is implied, as it should be in this music …the contrast between the opening phrase of When I am laid in earth and its repeat a few bars later is a model of graduated mezza voce…. Lewis and the ECO produce the crispest and lightest of playing, which never sounds rushed” (Penguin Rosette)
- 1. Overture 2:12
- 2. Shake the clouds from off your brow 1:02
- 3. Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment 4:38
- 4. Whence could so much virtue spring? 1:59
- 5. Fear no danger 1:32
- 6. See your Royal guest appears 4:43
- 7. Wayward sisters 3:04
- 8. Ruin’d ere the set of sun 4:56
- 9. Ritornelle…Thanks to these lonesome vales 3:24
- 10. Oft she visits 2:21
- 11. Behold, upon my bending spear 1:20
- 12. Stay, Prince 2:41
- 13. Prelude…Come away, fellow sailors…Sailors’ Dance 2:22
- 14. See the flags…Destruction’s our delight…
The Witches’ Dance 3:22 - 15. Your counsel all is urged in vain 3:25
- 16. But death alas!…Great minds…Thy hand, Belinda 2:19
- 17. When I am laid in earth…With drooping wings 6:39
- 18. Arise, ye subterranean winds (The Tempest: Purcell) 3:06
Hervey Alan - 19. Halcyon days (The Tempest: Purcell) 5:44
Jennifer Vyvyan - 20. What Shall I Do? (Dioclesian: Purcell) 4:37
Jennifer Vyvyan - 18-20 Philomusica of London conducted Anthony Lewis; Rec. 1958
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Bonus Tracks
