Purcell: Ayres for the theatre

Nell Gwynn and the Infant Duke of Albans by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680)
Reproduced by permission of The Trustees of the Denys Bower Bequest, Chiddingstone Castle, Kent

CDH55010

(Originally issued on CDA66212)

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Recording details: January 1986
St Michael's Church, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: May 1999
Total duration: 58 minutes 24 seconds

'Classic accounts deserving a place in anyone's CD collection' (BBC Music Magazine)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Ayres for the theatre

The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

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2	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 2: Rondeau. Hornpipe [1'23]
3	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 3: Air [1'10]
4	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Suite Movement 4: Air [1'27]
5	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 5: Minuet [0'44]
6	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 6: Air [1'11]
7	£0.05	£0.05	£0.05	Suite Movement 7: Jig [0'32]
8	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 8: Hornpipe [0'43]
9	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Suite Movement 9: Air [1'40]
	£0.85	£0.85	£0.85	Timon of Athens Z632 [6'57]
10	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Suite Movement 1: Overture. Grave – Canzona – Adagio – Canzona [4'27]
11	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Suite Movement 2: Curtain Tune on a Ground [2'30]
	£1.50	£1.50	£1.50	The Gordion Knot Unty'd Z597 [11'10]
12	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	Suite Movement 1: Overture. Grave – Canzona [3'31]
13	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 2: Air [0'39]
14	£0.25	£0.25	£0.25	Suite Movement 3: Rondeau Minuet [1'48]
15	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 4: Air [0'51]
16	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 5: Jig. Lilliburlero [0'36]
17	£0.25	£0.25	£0.25	Suite Movement 6: Chaconne [1'56]
18	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 7: Air [0'41]
19	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 8: Minuet [1'08]
	£1.50	£1.50	£1.50	Bonduca, or The British Heroine Z574 [12'29]
20	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	Suite Movement 1: Overture. Grave – Canzona [3'41]
21	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 2: Song Tune 'Britons, strike home' [1'12]
22	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 3: Song Tune 'To arms, to arms' [1'19]
23	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Suite Movement 4: Air [1'44]
24	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 5: Hornpipe [0'57]
25	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 6: Air [0'40]
26	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 7: Hornpipe [0'52]
27	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 8: Air [0'48]
28	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 9: Minuet [1'16]
29	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Chacony in G minor Z730 [4'22]
	£1.50	£1.50	£1.50	The Virtuous Wife, or Good luck at last Z611 [11'38]
30	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Suite Movement 5: Preludio [1'47]
31	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 6: Hornpipe [0'38]
32	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Suite Movement 7: Minuet [1'09]
33	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 8: Minuet [0'49]
34	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Suite Movement 1: Overture. Grave – Canzona [2'49]
35	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Suite Movement 2: Song Tune 'Ah, how sweet it is to love' [2'11]
36	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Suite Movement 3: Slow Air [1'33]
37	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Suite Movement 4: Air [0'42]

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