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)