The Best of Purcell
Various Artists
Label
Decca
Catalogue No.
4674542
Barcode
00028946745427
Format
1-CD
About

A beautiful collection of Purcell favourites, both from recent times with artists of the calibre of Emma Kirkby and Christopher Hogwood, to such Purcell champions of the mid-20th century as Benjamin Britten, whose rousing arrangement and performance of the ‘Chaconne in G minor’ is here included.

TRACK LISTING / ARTISTS

HENRY PURCELL
Abdelazer: Overture – Rondeau
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

Oedipus: Music for a while
James Bowman, counter tenor
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

Pausanias: Sweeter than roses
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Anthony Rooley, lute

The Old Bachelor
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

Chaconne in G minor
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten

If music be the Food of Love
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Catherine Mackintosh, violin
Richard Campbell,
viola da gamba
Anthony Rooley, flute
Christopher Hogwood, spinet

The Libertine: Prelude
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

An Evening Hymn: ‘Now that the sun’
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Catherine Mackintosh, violin
Richard Campbell,
viola da gamba
Anthony Rooley, flute
Christopher Hogwood, organ

The Fairy Queen: Symphony
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten

King Arthur: Fairest Isle
Catherine Mackintosh, violin
Paula Chateauneuf, theorbo

Amphitryon: Hornpipe – Scotch Tune
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

Dido & Aeneas: When I am laid in earth
Catherine Bott, soprano
Chorus & Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

Abdelazer
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

Birthday Song for Queen Mary: Crown the alter, deck the shrine
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Anthony Rooley, flute

The Married Beau
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

I was glad
Paul Esswood, counter tenor
Ian Partridge, tenor
Stafford Dean, bass
John Scott, organ
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
George Guest