Henry Purcell: The Complete Odes and Welcome Songs CD / Album

Track Listing

Disc 1

1. Symphony 1.39
2. Arise, My Muse 1.57
3. Ye Sons of Music Raise Your Voices High 1.00
4. Then Sound Your Instruments and Charm the Earth 1.40
5. See How the Glitt'ring Ruler of the Day 3.00
6. Hail, Gracious Gloriana, Hail 3.01
7. And Since the Time's Distress to Wars' Alarms 1.24
8. To Quell His Country's Foes 1.22
9. But Ah, I See Eusebia Drown'd in Tears 2.37
10. But Glory Cries 'Go On... 3.17
11. Symphony 1.32
12. Welcome to All the Pleasures 2.07
13. Here the Deities Approve 4.40
14. While Joys Celestial Their Bright Souls Invade 1.31
15. Then Life Up Your Voices, Those Organs of Nature 1.54
16. Beauty, Thou Scene of Love 2.30
17. In a Consort of Voices While Instruments Play 1.20
18. Symphony 3.39
19. Now Does the Glorious Day Appear 1.22
20. Not Any One Such Joy Could Bring 1.24
21. This Does Our Fertile Isle With Glory Crown 2.29
22. Now Does the Glorious Day Appear 1.21
23. It Was a Work of Full As Great a Weight 1.56
24. By Beauteous Softness Mixed With Majesty 3.56
25. Her Hero Too, Whose Conduct and Whose Arms 1.32
26. Our Dear Religion, With Our Law's Defence 1.49
27. No More Shall We the Great Eliza Boast 2.33
28. Now, Now, With One United Voice 1.36

Disc 2

1. Symphony 9.27
2. Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail! 4.11
3. Hark, Each Tree Its Silence Breaks 4.13
4. 'Tis Nature's Voice; Thro' All the Moving Wood 4.03
5. Soul of the World 2.41
6. Thou Tun'st This World Below, the Spheres Above 3.15
7. With That Sublime Celestial Lay 3.10
8. Wond'rous Machine 2.44
9. The Airy Violin 1.28
10. In Vain the Am'rous Flute and Soft Guitar 5.53
11. The Fife and All the Harmony of War 3.07
12. Let These Amongst Themselves Contest 3.25
13. Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail to Thee! 4.11
14. Overture 4.27
15. Who Can from Joy Refrain? 5.12
16. A Prince of Glorious Race Descended 3.34
17. The Father Brave As E'er Was Dane 1.29
18. The Graces in His Mother Shine 2.00
19. Sound the Trumpet and Beat the Warlike Drum 2.29
20. If Now He Burns With Noble Flame 5.31

Disc 3

1. Symphony 1.58
2. Fly, Bold Rebellion, Make Haste and Be Gone! 2.27
3. Rivers from Their Channels Turned 3.14
4. If Then We've Found the Want of His Rays 3.16
5. But Heaven Has Now Dispelled Those Fears 1.21
6. Come Then, Change Your Notes, Disloyal Crowd 1.40
7. Be Welcome Then, Great Sir, to Constant Vows 3.33
8. Welcome to All Those Wishes Fulfilled 1.44
9. Symphony 3.11
10. Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drum 1.57
11. Crown the Year and Crown the Day 3.30
12. Let Caesar and Urania Live 2.56
13. What Greater Bliss Can Fate Bestow 2.48
14. Chaconne 3.34
15. While Caesar Like the Morning Star 2.22
16. To Urania and Caesar Delights Without Measure 3.16
17. Symphony 1.37
18. Celebrate This Festival 1.31
19. Britain Now Thy Cares Beguile 2.35
20. 'Tis Sacred, Bid the Trumpet Cease 0.47
21. Let Sullen Discord Smile 2.39
22. Crown the Altar, Deck the Shrine 3.04
23. Expected Spring at Last Is Come 1.48
24. April, Who Till Now Has Mourned 2.53
25. Departing Thus You'll Hear Him Say 1.19
26. Happy Realm Beyond Expressing 3.24
27. While, for a Righteous Cause He Arms 4.49
28. Return, Fond Muse, the Thoughts of War 3.28
29. Kindly Treat Maria's Day 2.48

Disc 4

1. Symphony 3.26
2. Ye Tuneful Muses, Raise Your Heads 2.55
3. Be Lively Then and Gay 2.22
4. In His Just Praise Your Noblest Songs Let Fall 2.36
5. From the Rattling of Drums and the Trumpet's Loud Sounds 3.16
6. To Music's Softer But Ye Kind 1.55
7. With Him He Brings the Partner of His Throne 4.31
8. Happy in a Mutual Love 1.22
9. Whilst in Music and Verse Our Duty We Show 1.46
10. Symphony 3.10
11. Celestial Music Did the Gods Inspire 2.09
12. Her Charming Strains Expel Tormenting Care 3.05
13. Thus Virgil's Genius Lov'd the Country Best 2.13
14. Whilst Music Did Improve Amphion's Song 2.11
15. When Orpheus Sang All Nature Did Rejoice 2.06
16. Let Phyllis By Her Voice But Charm the Air 2.25
17. Symphony 2.36
18. From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War 3.12
19. As Fame, Great Sir, Before You Ran 2.38
20. Wake Then, My Muse, Wake Instruments and Voice 1.58
21. The Sparrow and the Gentle Dove 4.44
22. So All the Boons Indulgent Heav'n Design'd 1.24
23. Hence Without Scheme Or Figure to Descry 1.19

Disc 5

1. Symphony 2.24
2. Welcome, Welcome, Glorious Morn 1.36
3. At Thy Return the Joyful Earth 4.01
4. Welcome As When Three Happy Kingdoms Strove 2.39
5. The Mighty Goddes of This Wealthy Isle 1.33
6. Full of Wonder and Delight 1.53
7. And Lo! A Sacred Fury Swell'd Her Breast 3.17
8. My Pray'rs Are Heard, Heav'n Has at Last Bestow'd 3.55
9. He to the Field By Honour Call'd Shall Go 1.43
10. Whilst Undisturb'd His Happy Consort Reigns 1.47
11. Sound, All Ye Spheres; Confirm the Omen, Heav'n 2.19
12. Symphony 2.28
13. Great Parent, Hail to Thee! 2.16
14. Another Century Commencing 2.22
15. After War's Alarms Repeated 3.15
16. Awful Matron Take Thy Seat 3.25
17. She Was the First Who Did Inspire 1.57
18. Succeeding Princes Next Recite 1.50
19. But Chiefly Recommend to Fame 1.31
20. Thy Royal Patron Sung: Repair 3.54
21. With Themes Like These, Ye Sons of Art 1.21
22. Symphony 2.27
23. The Summer's Absence Unconcerned We Bear 3.24
24. And When Late from Your Throne Heaven's Call You Attend 2.16
25. Ah! Had We, Sir, the Power Or Art 2.31
26. Happy While All Her Neighbours Bled 1.32
27. So Happily Still You Your Counsels Employ 1.13
28. These Had By Their Ill Usage Drove 2.30
29. But Those No More Shall Dare Repine 2.19

Disc 6

1. Symphony 3.41
2. Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind This Day 3.05
3. Those Eyes, That Form, That Lofty Mien 1.28
4. Sweetness of Nature, and True Wit 2.46
5. Long May She Reign Over This Isle 2.09
6. May Her Blest Example Chase 1.35
7. Many Such Days May She Behold 3.33
8. May She to Heaven Late Return 3.14
9. Symphony 2.55
10. Raise, Raise the Voice, All Instruments Obey 2.48
11. The God Himself Says He'll Be Present Here 2.25
12. Mark How Readily Each Pliant String 4.14
13. Symphony - Laudate Ceciliam, in Voce Et Organo 2.28
14. Modulemini Psalmum Novum 2.37
15. Symphony 1.50
16. Dicite Virgini, Canite Martyri 3.27
17. Symphony 3.36
18. From Those Serene and Rapturous Joys 3.23
19. Behold Th' Indulgent Prince Is Come 2.12
20. Not With a Helmet Or a Glitt'ring Spear 2.44
21. Welcome As Soft Refreshing Show'rs 2.35
22. Welcome, More Welcome Does He Come 4.33
23. Nor Does the Sun More Comfort Bring 1.12
24. With Trumpets and Shouts We Receive the World's Wonder 3.01

Disc 7

1. Symphony 2.24
2. Of Old, When Heroes Thought It Base 4.03
3. The Bashful Thames, for Beauty So Renown'd 4.31
4. The Pale and the Purple Rose 4.19
5. And in Each Track of Glory Since 3.57
6. Symphony 2.19
7. And Now When the Renown'd Nassau 1.58
8. They Did No Storms, Nor Threat'nings Fear 2.05
9. So When the Glitt'ring Queen of Night 4.44
10. Let Music Join 1.27
11. Sound Trumpets, Sound! Beat Ev'ry Drum 2.34
12. Sound All to Him 1.47
13. Symphony - Swifter, Isis, Swifter Flow 4.57
14. Land Him Safely On Her Shore 1.09
15. Hark, Hark! Just Now My Listening Ears 1.56
16. Welcome, Dread Sir, to Town 1.15
17. But With So Great Devotion Meet 2.07
18. The King Whose Presence Like the Spring 1.27
19. Then Since, Sir, from You All Our Blessings Do Flow 2.05
20. Symphony 2.47
21. What Shall Be Done in Behalf of the Man 2.43
22. All the Grandeur He Possesses 2.47
23. Mighty Charles, Though Joined With Thee 3.36
24. May All Factious Troubles Cease 2.45

Disc 8

1. Symphony 3.36
2. Come Ye Sons of Art, Away 1.59
3. Sound the Trumpet, 'Til Around 3.50
4. Strike the Viol, Touch the Lute 5.12
5. The Day That Such a Blessing Gave 3.00
6. Bid the Virtues, Bid the Graces 3.22
7. These Are the Sacred Charms That Shield 1.46
8. See Nature, Rejoicing, Has Shown Us the Way 2.53
9. Symphony - Welcome, Vicegerent of the Mighty King 3.12
10. Ah! Mighty Sir, If You to Such Long Absence Are Inclined 1.25
11. But Your Blest Presence Now 2.09
12. Your Influous Approach Our Pensive Hope Recalls 1.25
13. When the Summer, in His Glory 1.19
14. All Loyalty and Honour Be 0.59
15. Music the Food of Love 3.33
16. Why, Why Are All the Muses Mute? 4.40
17. When Should Each Soul Exalted Be 2.30
18. Britain, Thou Now Art Great, Art Great Indeed! 3.40
19. Look Up, and to Our Isle Returning See 2.10
20. Accurs'd Rebellion Reared His Head 3.07
21. Caesar for Milder Virtues Honour'd More 2.41
22. The Many-headed Beast Is Quelled at Home 2.15
23. In the Equal Balance Laid 1.23
24. O How Blest Is the Isle to Which Caesar Is Given 5.20