Welcome to all the Pleasures. Odes

Programme

HENRY PURCELL [1659-1695] Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1683) · Overture (2'23) · "Welcome to all the Pleasures" (2'11) · "Here the deities approve". "While joys celestial" (7'47) · "Beauty thou scene of love" (5'02) · "In a consort of voices" (1'08) Ode on Queen Mary's Birthday (1692) · Overture (4'01) · "Love's Goddess sure was blind" (4'23) · "Sweetness of nature" - "Long may she reign" (5'05) · "May her blest example chase" (1'37) · "Many such days" (2'55) · "May she to Heaven late return" (2'50)