Sylvia McNair: The Echoing Air
The Music of Henry Purcell
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Title
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Sylvia McNair: The Echoing Air
The Music of Henry Purcell
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Description
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Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Part I
-Staircase Overture
-"If Music Be the Food of Love" Z397C (Henry Heveningham)
-Cebell
-"To Arms"
-"Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel" Z 196 (Nahum Tate)
-Slow Air
Part II
-"We Come To Sing"
-"Oh! Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom" Z 574/17a (Bonduca, 1695)
-"O Solitude" Z 406 (Katherine Philips)
-"Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air" Z629/48bc (The Fairy Queen, 1692)
-Trumpet Tune
Part III
-"Sweeter Than Roses" Z585/1 (Richard Norton) (Pausanias, 1695)
-"Fairest Isle" Z628/38 (John Dryden)(King Arthur, 1691)
-"She That Would Gain a Faithful Lover" Z414 (Lady E-. M-.)
-"Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive" Z367 (after•nach•d'après Theocritus)
-"I Attempt from Love's Sickness To Fly" Z630/17h (The Indian Queen, 1695)
-Jig
Part IV
-"Music for a While" Z583/2 (John Dryden)
-"The Fatal Hour Comes On Apace" Z421
-"Hear, Mighty Love"
-Plainte: "O, Let Me Weep" Z629/40ab (The Fairy Queen, 1692)
-Chacony in G minor, Z 730 g-moll
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Creator
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Philips Classics Productions, CD
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Contributor
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The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, director, organ, harpsichord
Sylvia McNair, soprano
Crispian Steele Perkins, trumpet
Simon Standage, violin
Paul O'Dette, archlute
Laurence Dreyfus, cello, viola da gamba
