Credits:

Paul Paray

Tracklisting:

1.Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanius"), song, Z. 585/1
2.The fatal hour comes on apace, song, Z. 421
3.When first Amintas sued for a kiss, song, Z. 430
4.O let me weep ("The Plaint" from "The Fairy Queen"), aria, Z. 629/40
5.They tell us that you mighty powers above (from "The Indian Queen"), soprano aria, Z. 630/19
6.Man is for the woman made (from "The Mock Marriage"), song, Z. 605/3
7.From silent shades and the Elysian groves (Bess of Bedlam), song, Z. 370
8.Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2
9.Now the night is chas'd away (from "The Fairy Queen"), soprano aria with chorus, Z. 629/28
10.If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
11.Thrice Happy Lovers (Epithalamium from "The Fairy Queen"), aria for soprano, Z. 629/39bc
12.Of old when heroes thought it base (Yorkshire Feast Song), ode for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z
13.I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (from "The Indian Queen"), Z630/17h
14.O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, song, Z. 402
15.Fairest Isle (from "King Arthur"), aria for soprano, Z. 628/38
16.O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
17.If love's a sweet passion (from "The Fairy Queen"), aria for soprano with chorus, Z. 629/17b, c
18.Tell me, some pitying angel, (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), sacred song, for soprano & contin
19.Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ("An Evening Hymn"), Z. 1