The Purcell Collection - Realizations by Benjamin Britten (High Voice)

The Purcell Collection - Realizations by Benjamin Britten (50 Songs High Voice). By Henry Purcell (1659-1695). Edited by Richard Walters. Arranged by Benjamin Britten. For Piano, High Voice. Boosey & Hawkes Voice. Softcover. 272 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M051933761. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

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.

Song List:

• Alleluia
• Evening Hymn
• Take Not A Woman's Anger Ill
• Fairest Isle
• Turn Then Thine Eyes
• Music For A While
• Pious Celinda
• On The Brow Of Richmond Hill
• Mad Bess
• Man Is For The Woman Made
• Sound The Trumpet
• Lost Is My Quiet
• Thanks To These Lonesome Vales
• When I Am Laid In Earth
• The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
• Job's Curse
• Saul And The Witch At Endor
• Lord, What Is Man
• We Sing To Him
• A Morning Hymn
• In The Black Dismal Dungeon Of Despair
• more.