Sweeter Than Roses

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Call Number: CD Classical-Songs Purcell Sweeter
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Classical-Songs Purcell Sweeter	2-week checkout	On Shelf

The Purcell selections are in part excerpts from operas and incidental music ; the 12th-15th and 17th selections are hymns ; the last selection is for harpsichord solo. The Britten op. 52 is a song cycle, with words by Thomas Hardy.
Notes and song texts on leaflet.
Sweeter than roses -- Ah! how sweet it is to love -- Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom -- Music for a while -- If music be the food of love -- Man, that is for woman made -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain -- I see she flies me ev'rywhere -- Take not a woman's anger ill -- Since from dear Astraea's sight -- I'll sail upon the dog-star -- A morning hymn -- Let the night perish -- Lord, what is man, lost man -- The earth trembled -- Crown the altar -- An evening hymn -- A new ground / Henry Purcell -- Winter words, op. 52 / Benjamin Britten.
Ian Partridge, tenor ; George Malcolm, harpsichord (1st-18th works) ; Jennifer Partridge, piano (remainder).
Contents: Pausanias, the betrayer of his country. -- Tyrannic love. -- Bonduca. -- Oedipus. -- If music be the food of love, -- Mock marriage. -- Indian queen. -- Aureng-Zebe. -- Rival sisters. -- Dioclesian. -- Fool's preferment. -- Thou wakeful shepherd. -- Let the night perish. -- Lord, what is man?, -- Earth trembled, and heav'n closed. -- Celebrate this festival. -- Now that the sun hath veiled his light. -- Winter words.

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