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Subtitle: Realizations by Benjamin Britten

Arranger: Benjamin Britten

Department: Vocal & Opera - A-Z Vocal Composers

Description: Voice, Piano

Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes

Status: In Print

  
Most of the distinctive Purcell realizations by Benjamin Britten, vocal parts edited by Peter Pears, have been out of print for some years. This new edition collects 49 selections for high voice and 45 selections for medium/low voice. Includes 9 songs from Harmonia Sacra, 24 solo songs and six duets from Orpheus Britannicus, “The Queen's Epicedium,” and selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen.

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Contents and Sound Samples

  • Ah, Belinda! I am prest with torment
  • Alleluia
  • Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
  • But ere we this perform
  • Come away, fellow sailors
  • Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa
  • Evening Hymn
  • Fairest Isle
  • Fear no danger to ensue
  • Hark the ech'ing air
  • How blest are shepherds
  • I attempt from love's sickness
  • I spy Celia
  • I take no pleasure
  • If music be the food of love (1st version)
  • If music be the food of love (3rd version)
  • I'll sail upon the Dog-star
  • In the black dismal dungeon of despair
  • Job's Curse
  • Let sullen discord smile
  • Lord, what is man
  • Lost is my quiet
  • Mad Bess
  • Man is for the woman made
  • Morning Hymn
  • No, resistance is but vain
  • No, resistance is but vain
  • Not all my torments
  • Oft she visits this lov'd mountain
  • On the brow of Richmond Hill
  • Pious Celinda
  • Pursue thy conquest, love
  • Queen's Epicedium
  • Saul and the Witch at Endor
  • Shake the cloud from off your brow
  • Shake the cloud from off your brow
  • Shepherd, leave decoying
  • So when the glittering Queen of Night
  • Sound fame thy brazen trumpet
  • Sound the trumpet
  • Sweeter than roses
  • Take not a woman's anger ill
  • Thanks to these lonesome vales
  • Thanks to these lonesome vales
  • There's not a swain of the plain
  • Thou tun'st this world
  • 'Tis holiday
  • Turn then thine eyes
  • We sing to him
  • What can we poor females do?
  • When I am laid in earth
  • Why should men quarrel?
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