Most of Britten's rich Purcell realizations had previously been out fo print for some years. This new edition, with new music engravings and extensive historical notes, includes 9 songs from Harmonia Sacra, 24 solos songs and 6 duets from Orpheus Britannicus, and selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. Contents: Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment - Alleluia - The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation - But ere we this perform - Come away, fellow sailors - Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa - Evening Hymn - Fairest Isle - Fear no danger to ensue - Hark the ech'ing air - How blest are shepherds - I attempt from love's sickness to fly - I spy Celia - I take no pleasure - I'll sail upon the Dog-star - If music be the food of love (1st version) - If music be the food of love(3rd version) - In the black dismal dungeon of despair - Job's Curse - Let sullen discord smile - Lord, what is man - Lost is my quiet - Mad Bess - Man is for the woman made - A Morning Hymn - Music for a while - No, resistance is but vain - Not all my torments - Oft she visits this lov'd mountain - On the brow of Richmond Hill - Pious Celinda - Pursue thy conquest, love - The Queen's Epicedium - Saul and the Witch at Endor - Shake the cloud from off your brow - Shepherd, leave decoying - So when the glittering queen of Night - Sound Fame thy brazen trumpet - Sound the trumpet - Sweeter than roses - Take not a woman's anger ill - Thanks to these lonesome vales - There's not a swain of the plain - Thou tun'st this world - 'Tis holiday - Turn then thine eyes - We sing to him - What can we poor females do? - When I am Laid in earth - Why should men quarrel?