Gérard Lesne (alto)

Il Seminario musicale

O Solitude: This exquisite and profound piece by Henry Purcell opens a selection of songs by the great English Baroque composer, recorded here by the alto Gérard Lesne whose voice proves to be in its element expressing the subtlety of these pieces.

• Purcell: Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge: incidental music, Z570
• Purcell: An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
• Purcell: Ask me to love no more, Z358
• Purcell: Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360
• Purcell: Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461
• Purcell: Distressed Innocence or The Princess of Persia: incidental music, Z577
• Purcell: Distressed Innocence, Z577: Air lent
• Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen)
• Purcell: If music be the food of love, Z379
• Purcell: If pray'rs and tears, Z380
• Purcell: In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384
• Purcell: Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383
• Purcell: O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
• Purcell: The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421
• Purcell: The Indian Queen: instrumental air
• Purcell: Trumpet Tune in C major, ZT 698, from the Indian Queen
• Purcell: What a sad fate is mine, Z428
• Purcell: While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437
• Purcell: Young Thirsis' fate, Z473