Bedlam boys / trad., text 17. Jh. (2:16) -- 'Tis women makes us love : a catch (0:49) -- Then mad, very mad let us be : from The Richmond heiress (1:02) -- Fantazia : three parts upon a ground (4:06) -- I'll sail upon the Dog-star : from A fool's preferment (2:10) -- Jack, thou'rt a toper : a catch : from Bonduca (1:37) -- The triumphing dance : from Dido and Aeneas (1:02) -- A forsaken lover's complaint / Robert Johnson (2:20) -- Oh the sweet delights of love : from The history of Dioclesian (2:57) -- Dance of the bacchanals : from The history of Dioclesian (1:17) -- O solitude : a ground (4:40) -- Fantazia upon one note (2:56) -- Sing, sing ye Druids : from Bonduca (2:08) -- Oft she visits this lov'd mountain : from Dido and Aeneas (1:50) -- Full fathom five : Ariel's song from The tempest / Robert Johnson (1:32) -- Rondeau : from Distressed innocence (0:50) -- Beneath a poplar's shadow lay me : from Sophonisba, or, Hannibal's overthrow (1:59) -- Grim king of the ghosts : broadside ballad from The beggar's opera / John Gay & Johann Christoph Pepusch (2:34) -- From silent shades : Bess of Bedlam (4:18) -- Curtain tune : from The tempest / Matthew Locke (2:18) -- The Blessed Virgin's expostulation, when our Saviour at twelve years of age had withdrawn himself (6:25) -- The cruel mother / trad., 18. Jh. (2:40) -- Once, twice, thrice : a catch (1:26) -- William and Margaret / trad., 17. Jh. (1:29) -- Willow song / trad., 16. Jh. (3:33) -- Charon the peaceful shade invites : from The history of Dioclesian (1:19) -- The three ravens / trad. ; Thomas Ravenscroft (3:53) -- Ground in c (3:23) -- Ophelia's mad song / trad., 16. Jh. (1:17) -- Dido's lament : from Dido and Aeneas (3:23) -- With drooping wings : from Dido and Aeneas (2:03).
Note
Principally for soprano with instrumental ensemble; in part instrumental music, and in part excerpts from operas and other staged works.
Language (note)
The vocal works sung in English.
Title
Love's madness / Henry Purcell.
Publisher
Stuttgart : Carus, [2012]
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Dorothee Mields, soprano ; Lautten Compagney Berlin ; Wolfgang Katschner, conductor.
Event
Recorded 2011 July 16-19 Jesus-Christus-Kirche Berlin-Dahlem.