Christopher Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music - Henry Purcell: Theatre Music [6CDs] (1990)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
CD1:
Abdelazer, or, the Moor's Revenge, incidental music, Z. 570
01. Overture
02. Rondeau - Air - Air - Minuet
03. Air - Jig - Hornpipe - Air
04. Song: Lucinda is bewitching fair
Distressed Innocence, or, the Princess of Persia, incidental music, Z. 577
05. Overture
06. Air - Slow Air - Air - Hornpipe or Jig
07. Rondeau - Air - Minuet
The Married Beau, or, the Curious Impertinent, incidental music, Z. 603
08. Overture
09. Slow Air - Hornpipe
10. Air - Hornpipe - Jig
11. Trumpet Air - March - Hornpipe on a ground
12. Song: See! where repenting Celia lyes
The Gordian Knot Unty'd, incidental music, Z. 597
13. Overture
14. Air - Rondeau Minuet - Air - Jig
15. Chaconne - Air - Minuet
Sir Anthony Love, or, the Rambling Lady, incidental music, Z. 588
16. Overture
17. Pursuing Beauty
18. No more, Sir, no more
19. In vain Clemene
20. Ground
CD2:
Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574
01. Overture
02. Air - Hornpipe - Air
03. Hornpipe - Air - Minuet
04. Jack, thou'rt a toper
05. Hear us great Rugwith
06. Hear, ye Gods of Britain
07. Sing, sing, ye Druids!
08. Divine Andate, president of war
09. To arms
10. Britons strike home!
11. O lead me to some peaceful gloom
Circe, incidental music, Z. 575
12. We must assemble by a sacrifice
13. Their necessary aid you use
14. Come every demon
15. Lovers, who to their first embraces go
16. Magicians' Dance … Pluto, arise!
The Virtuous Wife, or, Good Luck at Last, incidental music, Z. 611
17. Overture
18. Song tune - Slow Air - Air
19. Preludio - Hornpipe - Minuet - Minuet (1st Act tune)
The Old Bachelor, incidental music, Z. 607
20. Overture
21. Hornpipe
22. Thus to a ripe, consenting maid
23. Slow Air - Hornpipe
24. As Amoret and Thyrsis lay
25. Rondeau - Menuet - Boree - March - Jig
CD3:
01. Overture and Suite for 2 violins, viola & continuo in G major, Z. 770 (inner parts incomplete)
Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578
02. Sing all ye Muses
03. When the world first knew creation
04. Let the dreadful engines of eternal will
05. With this sacred charming wand
06. Since times are so bad
07. Genius of England
08. Lads and Lasses, blithe and gay
09. From rosie bow'rs
Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572
10. Overture
11. Saraband
12. Celia, that I once was blest
13. Hornpipe - Scotch tune
14. For Iris I sigh
15. Air - Minuet - Hornpipe
16. Fair Iris and her swain
17. Bourrée
CD4:
The Double Dealer, incidental music, Z. 592
01. Overture
02. Hornpipe - Minuet - Air - Hornpipe
03. Cynthia frowns
04. Minuet - Minuet - Air - Air
The Richmond Heiress, or, A Woman Once in the Right, incidental music, Z. 608
05. Behold the man
The Rival Sisters, or, the Violence of Love, incidental music, Z. 609
06. Overture
07. Celia has a thousand charms
08. Take not a woman's anger ill
09. How happy, how happy is she
Henry II, King of England, incidental music, Z. 580
10. In vain, 'gainst Love, in vain I strove
Tyrannic Love, or, the Royal Martyr, incidental music, Z. 613
11. Hark! my Damilcar!
12. Ah! how sweet it is to love
13. Overture for 2 violins, 2 violas & continuo in G minor, Z. 772
Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606
14. Prepare, prepare, the rites begin
15. Cans't thou, Marina
16. The gate to bliss
17. Hark! Hark! behold the heav'nly choir
18. Now the fight's done
19. Sad as death at dead of night
20. Dream no more of pleasures past
21. Hail to the myrtle shade
22. Ah cruel, bloody Fate
CD5:
The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600
01. Nymphs and shepherds
02. We come
03. Prelude
04. Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near
05. To arms, heroic prince
The Massacre of Paris, incidental music, Z. 604
06. Thy genius, Io (2 settings)
Oedipus, incidental music, Z. 583
07. Hear, ye sullen powers below
08. Music for a while
09. Come away, do not stay … Laius! Hear, hear
10. Overture for 2 violins, viola & continuo in D minor, Z. 771
The History of King Richard II, or, The Sicilian Usurper, incidental music, Z. 581
11. Retir'd from any mortal's sight
Sir Barnaby Whigg, or, No Wit Like a Woman's, incidental music, Z. 589
12. Blow, blow, Boreas, blow
Sophonisba, or Hannibal's Overthrow, incidental music, Z. 590
13. Beneath the poplar's shadow
The English Lawyer, incidental music, Z. 594
14. My wife has a tongue
A Fool's Preferment, or, The Three Dukes of Dunstable, incidental music, Z. 571
15. I sigh'd, and I pin'd … There's nothing so fatal as woman
16. Fled is my love … 'Tis death alone … I'll mount to yon blue Coelum
17. I'll sail upon the Dog-star
18. Jenny, 'gin you can love
19. If thou wilt give me back my love
The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, incidental music, Z. 598
20. I look'd, and saw within
The Knight of Malta, incidental music, Z. 599
21. At the close of the ev'ning
Why, my Daphne, why complaining? (A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne), song for soprano, bass & continuo, Z. 525
22. Why, my Daphne, shy complaining
The Wives' Excuse, or, Cuckolds Make Themselves, incidental music, Z. 612
23. Ingrateful love!
24. Hang this whining way of wooing
25. Say, cruel Amoret … Corinna, I excuse thy face
Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, incidental music, Z. 576
26. No, no, poor suff'ring heart
Regulus, or, the Faction of Carthage, incidental music, Z. 586
27. Ah me! to many deaths
The Marriage-Hater Match'd, incidental music, Z. 602
28. As soon as the chaos … How vile are the sordid intregues
CD6:
Love Triumphant, or Nature Will Prevail, incidental music, Z. 582
01. How happy's the husband
Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, incidental music, Z. 587
02. There's not a swain
The Female Virtuosos, incidental music, Z. 596
03. Love, thou art best
Epsom Wells, incidental music, Z. 579
04. Leave these useless arts
The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any Rather than Fail, incidental music, Z. 601
05. Though you make no return
06. No, resistance is but vain
07. Tell me no more
Aureng-Zebe, or, the Great Mogul, incidental music, Z. 573
08. I see, she flies me
The Canterbury Guests, or, A Bargain Broken, incidental music, Z. 591
09. Good neighbour why?
The Fatal Marriage, or, the Innocent Adultery, incidental music, Z. 595
10. The danger is over
11. I sigh'd and owned my love
Spanish Friar, or, the Double Discovery, incidental music, Z. 610
12. Whilst I with grief
Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, incidental music, Z. 585
13. Sweeter than roses
14. My dearest, my fairest
The Mock Marriage, incidental music, Z. 605
15. Oh! how you protest … 'Twas within a furlong … Man is for the woman made
Oroonoko, incidental music, Z. 584
16. Celemene, pray tell me
17. Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in A major, Z. 748
18. Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in A minor, Z. 749
19. Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in B flat major, Z. 750
20. Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in G minor, Z. 751
21. Pavan for 3 violins & continuo in G minor, Z. 752
22. Sonata for violin & continuo (Trio Sonata) in G minor, Z. 780
23. Chacony, for 4 strings in G minor, Z. 730