PURCELL, The King's Consort, Robert King
Complete secular solo songs
- CD1
- 1 Draw near, you lovers, Z462 [4:27]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 2 While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437 [2:12]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 3 Love, thou can'st hear, tho' thou art blind, Z396 [5:17]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 4 I loved fair Celia, Z381 [1:50]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 5 What hope for us remains now he is gone?, Z472 [3:02]
- Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 6 Pastora's beauties when unblown, Z407 [2:23]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 7 A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z359 [0:45]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 8 Urge me no more, Z426 [3:11]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 9 Farewell, all joys, Z368 [1:28]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 10 If music be the food of love, Z379a [1:55]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 11 Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams, Z355 [3:37]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 12 They say you're angry, Z422 [2:30]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 13 Let each gallant heart, Z390 [1:48]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 14 This poet sings the Trojan wars 'Anacreaon's Defeat', Z423 [4:06]
- Michael George (bass)
- 15 Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353 [1:15]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 16 My heart, whenever you appear, Z399 [1:46]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 17 On the brow of Richmond Hill, Z405 [1:34]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 18 Rashly I swore I would disown, Z411 [1:05]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 19 Since the pox, or the plague, Z471 [1:24]
- Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
- 20 Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461 [3:39]
- Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 21 Musing on cares of human fate, Z467 [2:11]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 22 Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still, Z438 [1:56]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 23 How I sigh when I think of the charms of my swain, Z374 [0:28]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 24 Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind, Z443 [1:48]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 25 Beware, poor shepherds 'The Caution', Z361 [1:29]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 26 See how the fading glories of the year, Z470 [2:52]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 27 Cease, anxious world, your fruitless pain, Z362 [2:19]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 28 Oh, fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, Z402 [5:16]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- CD2
- 1 I love and I must 'Bell Barr', Z382 [2:53]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 2 When her languishing eyes said 'Love!', Z432 [0:55]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 3 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 [2:28]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 4 Ah! cruel nymph!, Z352 [2:35]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 5 Sylvia, now your scorn give over, Z420 [0:30]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 6 Since one poor view has drawn my heart, Z416 [0:34]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 7 I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386 [0:56]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 8 Gentle shepherds, you that know 'Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Mr John Playford', Z464 [6:08]
- Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 9 If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378 [1:37]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 10 She that would gain a faithful lover, Z414 [2:23]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 11 Fly swift, ye hours, Z369 [5:17]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 12 Hears not my Phillis how the birds 'The Knotting Song', Z371 [2:31]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 13 Phillis, talk no more of passion, Z409 [2:02]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 14 Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364 [1:42]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 15 In vain we dissemble, Z385 [2:14]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 16 When my Aemelia smiles, Z434 [2:08]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 17 Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands, Z463 [3:14]
- Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
- 18 What a sad fate is mine, Z428a [2:43]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 19 I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388 [1:49]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 20 Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, Z395 [0:40]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 21 How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, Z373 [2:19]
- Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 22 She, who my poor heart possesses, Z415 [1:45]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 23 Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392 [2:53]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 24 When first my shepherdess and I, Z431 [1:26]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 25 Through mournful shades and solitary groves, Z424 [3:21]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 26 If music be the food of love, Z379b [1:58]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 27 Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, Z469 [1:03]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 28 Who but a slave can well express, Z440 [2:06]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 29 High on a throne of glitt'ring ore, Z465 [5:15]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 30 Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas 'The Queen's Epicedium', Z383 [7:55]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- CD3
- 1 She loves and she confesses too, Z413 [2:23]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 2 Amintas, to my grief I see, Z356 [1:33]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 3 Corinna is divinely fair, Z365 [1:46]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 4 Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z357 [2:24]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 5 He himself courts his own ruin, Z372 [1:10]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 6 No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z468 [4:21]
- Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 7 Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z512 [1:40]
- Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
- 8 Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z394 [2:24]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 9 Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, Z417 [0:58]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 10 If music be the food of love, Z379c [3:45]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 11 Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z408 [0:36]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 12 Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360 [2:59]
- Michael George (bass)
- 13 From silent shades 'Bess of Bedlam', Z370 [4:13]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 14 Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391 [1:07]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 15 I came, I saw, and was undone 'The Thraldom', Z375 [4:33]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 16 Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441 [2:06]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 17 Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 [2:26]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 18 If pray'rs and tears, Z380 [7:36]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 19 In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384 [2:29]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 20 Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z466 [1:25]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 21 Love is now become a trade, Z393 [1:06]
- Charles Daniels (tenor)
- 22 Ask me to love no more, Z358 [1:35]
- James Bowman (countertenor)
- 23 O solitude, my sweetest choice!, Z406 [5:32]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 24 Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404 [1:02]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano)
- 25 Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410 [1:01]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 26 When Strephon found his passion vain, Z435 [1:07]
- Barbara Bonney (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- 27 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 [3:47]
- Susan Gritton (soprano)
- 28 Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412 [1:50]
- Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
- 29 Young Thirsis' fate, Z473 [5:49]
- Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael George (bass)
- The King's Consort - orchestra
- Robert King - conductor