Purcell: Music for a while / O Solitude

Purcell: Music for a while / O Solitude
Deller / Kuijken / Christie / Skeaping
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 249 / HM 90 249 [CD / box]
Harmonia Mundi "L'édition du quarantième anniversaire: 1958-1998" HMD 94 249 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "Gold" HMG 50249 [CD]

Contents:

    Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Z 629, 1693 version)
  1. (Act V) Oberon, a Woman: The Plaint

    2. Henry Purcell
  2. If music be the food of love (Z 379a)

    3. Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen (Z 630, 1695)
  3. (Act III) Aerial spirits: I attempt from Love's sickness

    4. Henry Purcell: King Arthur or the British Worthy (Z 628, 1691)
  4. (Act V, scene 2) Fairest Isle

    5. Henry Purcell: Pausanias or the Betrayer to his Country (Z 595, 1595)
  5. Sweeter than roses

    6. Henry Purcell
  6. Not all my torments (Z 400)

    7. Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Z 629, 1692)
  7. (Act V) Junon: Thrice Happy Lovers

    8. ----
    Henry Purcell
  8. An Evening Hymn (Z 193)

    9. Henry Purcell: The Comical History of Don Quixote (Z 578)
  9. (Act V) From rosy bow'rs

    10. Henry Purcell: Bonduca or the British Heroine (Z 574, 1695)
  10. O lead me to some peaceful gloom

    11. Henry Purcell: The History of the Sicilian Usurper or King Richard the Second (Z 581, 1681)
  11. Retired from any mortal's sight

    12. Henry Purcell: Oedipus (Z 583, 1692)
  12. Music for a while

    13. Henry Purcell: The Prophetess or the History of Dioclesian (Z627, 1690)
  13. Since from my dear Astrea's sight

    14. Henry Purcell
  14. O Solitude (Z 406, 1685)

Performers:
[1]-[13] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Wieland Kuijken (bass viol), William Christie (harpsichord), Roderick Skeaping (baroque violon)
[14] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Robert Elliott (organ/continuo), Jane Ryan (bass viol/continuo)

Playing time: 55' 18"

Recording site and date:
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Rel.: 2008 (HMG)

Excerpts:
[1]-[13] Harmonia mundi HM 249 Henry Purcell - Music for a while
[14] Harmonia mundi HM 247 Henry Purcell - Purcell: O Solitude - Chants et Anthèmes

Compilation:
Harmonia mundi HMX 290 835/37 Inoubliable Alfred Deller A Portrait

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 559-110 (June 2008)

Comments:
Some other Purcell recordings by Deller:

Purcell: The Indian Queen
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi 90243
Purcell: King Arthur
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi 90252/3 (2 CDs)
Purcell: Olinda
Theatre music & sacred songs
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" 190214
Purcell: Welcome to all the Pleasures - Odes
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" 190222
Purcell: Anthems
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" 190233
Purcell: Te Deum & Jubilate Deo
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" 190207
Purcell: Chansons de tavernes et de chapelles
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi 90242

A broader collection:

HMV Recordings, 1949-1954
Alfred Deller
EMI Références 65501

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Pierre-F. Roberge