Description
“enjoyable anthology edition showing Deller at his finest. The others are good too, especially Gerald English … warm, expressively played instruments” (Penguin Guide)
“ Vanguard’s reissues of Purcell, the composer most closely associated with Deller … the purity of tone, the extraordinary resonance of lower and middle notes, the technical skill and sensitivity of his singing all remain … Stylish playing by George Malcolm and others (including young Neville Marriner) … celebrated not only Deller himself but his generation who did so much to bring Purcell out to reveal his genius” (Gramophone)
| 1. Oedipus (1692, Z.583) – Song: Music for a while 04:04 |
| 2. King Arthur (1691, Z.628) – : Fairest isle, all isles excelling 02:41 |
| 3. Pausanias (1695, Z.585) – Sweeter than roses 03:34 |
| 4. The Indian Queen (1695, Z.630) – I attempt from love’s sickness to fly 02:17 |
| 5. Song: If Music be the Food of Love (1st version, 1692, Z.379A) 02:36 |
| 6. Welcome to All the Pleasures “Ode On St. Cecilia’s Day”, Z. 339 – |
| Here The Deities Approve 04:39 |
| 7. Rejoice in the Lord Alway “Bell Anthem”, (c.1682-85, Z.49) 9.24 |
| from The Fairy-Queen (1692, Z.629) |
| 8. Mystery’s Song 0:54 |
| 9. Secrecy’s Song 2:01 |
| 10. Epithalamium: Thrice happy lovers 03:03 |
| 11. The Plaint 7:25 |
| from Dido and Aeneas (c.1688, Z.626) |
| 12. Overture 2:44 |
| 13. Fear no danger to ensue 1:45 |
| 14. Thy hand, Belinda |
| When I am laid in earth (Dido’s Lament)- |
| With drooping wings ye Cupids come 6.30 |
| from My Beloved Spake (1677, Z.28) |
| 15. Ouverture (Sinfonia) 1:03 |
| 16. My Beloved Spake 0:54 |
| 17. My Beloved is Mine 3.02 |
| from Hail! Bright Cecilia (1692, Z.328) |
| 18. The Fife and all the Harmony of War 3:04 |
| 19. Hail! Bright Cecilia 4.57 |
| from Come Ye Sons of Art (1694, Z.323) |
| 20. Sound the Trumpet 2:40 |
| 21. Come, Come, Ye Sons of Art 1:29 |
| 22. Strike the Viol 5:11 |
| 23. See Nature Rejoicing 2:46 |
