Most of the distinctive Purcell realisations by Benjamin Britten, with vocal parts edited by Peter Pears, have been out of print for some years. This new edition collects 50 pieces for high voice. Includes 9 songs from Harmonia Sacra, 24 solo songs and 6 duets from Orpheus Britannicus, “The Queen's Epicedium,” and selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen.

• Alleluia
• The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
• Job's Curse
• Saul And The Witch At Endor
• Lord, What Is Man
• We Sing To Him
• Evening Hymn
• A Morning Hymn
• In The Black Dismal Dungeon Of Despair
• The Queen's Epicedium
• I Attempt From Love's Sickness
• I Take No Pleasure
• Hark The Ech'Ing Air
• Take Not A Woman's Anger Ill
• How Blest Are Shepherds
• Fairest Isle
• If Music Be The Food Of Love (3Rd Version)
• Turn Then Thine Eyes
• Music For A While
• Pious Celinda -...