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    John Blow

    John Blow

    430 songs
    Total 26 albums

    Venus & Adonis

    1988
    TitleListen
    Venus & Adonis: Overture2:40
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "Behold My Arrows and My Bow"0:49
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "Come Shepherds All"1:58
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "Courtiers There Is No Faith in You"0:47
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "In These Sweet Groves"2:34
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: Cupid's Entry1:16
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: The Act tune1:32
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Venus! Adonis!"2:06
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Hark, Hark the Rural Music Sounds"1:09
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Adonis Will Not Hunt Today"2:27
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Come, Follow the Noblest Game"2:32
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: Entry: A Dance by a Huntsman1:01
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: The Act Tune2:52
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "You Place With Such Delightful Care"1:42
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "The Insolent, the Arrogant"1:34
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "Choose the Formal Fool"1:36
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: A Dance of Cupids1:35
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "Call the Graces"0:53
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "Mortals Below; Cupids Above"1:26
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: The Graces' Dance1:17
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: Gavatt0:47
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: Sarabrand for the Graces1:34
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: A Ground1:40
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: The Act Tune [end]2:08
    Venus & Adonis, Act III: "Adonis, Uncall'd for Sighs"5:05
    Venus & Adonis, Act III: "With Solemn Pomp Let Mourning Cupids Bear"2:26
    Venus & Adonis, Act III: "Mourn for Thy Servant"3:19
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell Album Cover

    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

    2000
    TitleListen
    Begin the Song!: Overture1:54
    Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. Begin the Song! Your Instruments Advance2:33
    Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. Bring Gentlest Thoughts, That Into Language Glide2:56
    Begin the Song!: Duet. Hark How the Waken’d Strings Resound3:05
    Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. By Harmony’s Entrancing Power2:32
    Begin the Song!: Duet. How Dull Were Life, How Hardly Worth Our Care1:41
    Begin the Song!: Solo. Without the Sweets of Melody2:31
    Begin the Song!: Solo. Music’s the Cordial of a Troubled Breast3:38
    Begin the Song!: Tutti. Come Then, With Tuneful Breath and String1:18
    Chaconne a 4 in G major5:08
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. Mark How the Lark and Linnet Sing3:38
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. But in the Close of Night3:54
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. So Ceas’d the Rival Crew When Purcell Came2:43
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. We Beg Not Hell Our Orpheus to Restore1:55
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. The Power of Harmony Too Well They Know2:35
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. The Heavenly Choir, Who Heard His Notes From High3:03
    An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. Ye Brethren of the Lyre, and Tuneful Voice2:02
    Ground in G minor4:14
    The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. The Nymphs of the Wells, and the Nymphs of the Hills2:46
    The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. But Here Comes a Druid and We Must Retire2:09
    The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. Blest Be This Morn, Blest Be the Hand4:12
    The Nymphs of the Wells: Tutti. We Nymphs of the Founts and We of the Mounts1:20
    Sonata in A major: Slow -2:26
    Sonata in A major [Untitled] -1:12
    Sonata in A major: Brisk2:05
    Dread Sir, the Prince of Light [Symphony]1:53
    Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Trio. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light Begins to Rise1:22
    Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Solo & Tutti. Let No Disloyal Cares His Peace Destroy2:09
    Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Solo, Trio & Tutti. This Message We Bring3:28
    Chaconne Album Cover

    Chaconne

    1997
    TitleListen
    Phaëton: Chaconne G-Dur4:28
    Per ogni sorte di strumenti musicale, Op. 22: Passacaglio g-Moll6:15
    Sonate da camera G-Dur "Ciacona", Op. 2 Nr. 123:29
    Chacony g-Moll, Z 7304:38
    Triosonate Nr. 6 G-Dur, Z 807: Chacony7:32
    Chacony G-Dur4:39
    Passacaglia-Grave B-Dur6:53
    Sonata-Ciacona B-Dur15:46
    Armonico tributo: Sonate Nr. 5 G-Dur: V. Chaconne15:42

    Purcell Ode / Songs from Amphion Anglicus (harpsichord & conductor: Gustav Leonhardt)

    1998
    TitleListen
    Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell: "Mark how the Lark and Linnet Sing"9:04
    Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell: "So ceas'd the rival Crew when Purcell came"3:06
    Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell: "We beg not Hell, our Orpheus to restore"5:14
    Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell: "The Heav'nly Quire, who hear his Notes from High"7:21
    Amphion Anglicus: Cloe found Amintas lying all in Tears5:51
    Amphion Anglicus: Why weeps Asteria?4:22
    Amphion Anglicus: Loving above Himself (Poor Celadon)4:08
    Amphion Anglicus: Shepherds, Deck your Crooks2:29
    Amphion Anglicus: Ah Heav'n! What is't I Hear?3:06
    Amphion Anglicus: Epilogue. Sing, Sing ye Muses3:47
    Deller's Choice: A Concert of Music both Rare and Rewarding Album Cover

    Deller's Choice: A Concert of Music both Rare and Rewarding

    2003
    TitleListen
    Exaudi me domine3:29
    In te Domine speravi5:25
    Organ voluntary in G1:08
    The Queen's Epicedium7:09
    Organ voluntary in F1:32
    A Hymn to God the Father3:31
    Ancor Che C'ol Partire4:18
    Toccata terza2:54
    The Self-Banished3:32
    The Wakeful Nightingale1:36
    Dove sei4:13
    Toccata in D minor2:47
    Bist du bei mir2:58

    Countertenor Duets

    1988
    TitleListen
    Come ye sons of Art, away Z323 (Movement 3: Sound the trumpet, 'til around)2:26
    Hail! bright Cecilia Z328 (Movement 10: In vain the Am'rous Flute and soft Guitar )6:06
    O solitude, my sweetest choice! Z4065:44
    Bonduca, or The British Heroine, Z574 (Duet: Sing, sing ye druids)2:43
    O dive custos Auriacae domus 'An elegy upon the death of Queen Mary' Z5147:04
    The maid's Last Prayer, or Any rather than Fail, Z601 (Duet: No, resistance is but vain)4:40
    Timon of Athens Z632 (Duet: Hark how the songsters)3:06
    Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas 'The Queen's Epicedium' Z3837:49
    Ah, heav'n! What is't I hear?3:22
    Ode on the death of Mr Henry Purcell (Mark how the Lark and Linnet Sing)22:05

    Odes to Saint Cecilia

    1995
    TitleListen
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 1. Symphony5:05
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 2. From harmony, from heav'nly harmony2:14
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 3. When Nature underneath a heap6:42
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 4. What passion cannot Musick raise and quell!3:28
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 5. The trumpet's loud clangor3:21
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 6. The soft complaining flute4:13
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 7. Sharp violins proclaim4:01
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 8. But oh! What art can teach2:48
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 9. Orpheus cou'd lead the savage race3:18
    From harmony, from heav'nly harmony: 10. As from the pow'r of sacred lays5:11
    The glorious day is come: 1. Symphony3:37
    The glorious day is come: 2. The glorious day is come, that will for ever be2:15
    The glorious day is come: 3. The spheres, those instruments divine5:01
    The glorious day is come: 4. Couch'd by the pleasant Heliconian spring2:00
    The glorious day is come: 5. And the first trumpet's part2:41
    The glorious day is come: 6. The battle done, the loud alarms do cease3:00
    The glorious day is come: 7. Excesses of pleasure now crowd on apace2:23
    The glorious day is come: 8. Ah Heav'n! What is't I hear?3:05
    The glorious day is come: 9. Music! celestial Music! what can be2:48
    The glorious day is come: 10. This that blest king and god-like prophet knew1:46
    The glorious day is come: 11. And thus by Music's pow'r2:45

    Awake My Lyre

    1993
    TitleListen
    Awake, awake my Lyre! (A Supplication)13:16
    Salvator mundi salva nos2:32
    Stay, gentle Echo, dear nymph, stay (A Dialogue between Philander and the Echo)4:06
    Sonata in A6:02
    Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain (Loving above himself)4:13
    Music's the cordial of a troubled breast (from the Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 1684)4:01
    Go, perjur'd man, and if thou e'er return (The Curse)4:58
    Help, Father Abraham! (A dialogue betwixt Dives and Abraham)5:46
    Chloe found Amyntas lying all in tears (Rondelay)5:47
    Ground in G minor3:48
    Paratum cor meum deus1:57
    Whilst on Septimnius's panting breast (Septimnius and Acme, Ode flom Catullus)6:15
    Gloria Patri, qui creavit nos3:19
    Sing ye muses (Epilogue)3:26

    Croft The Burial Service

    1997
    TitleListen
    Funeral Music for Queen Mary March2:07
    Funeral Music for Queen Mary, Canzona1:44
    Funeral Music for Queen Mary, Thou Knowest Lord2:11
    Funeral Music for Queen Mary, March1:01
    Funeral Sentences, Man that is born of a woman4:48
    Funeral Sentences, In the midst of life3:08
    Funeral Sentences, Thou knowest Lord4:22
    The Burial Service12:15
    O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV 1184:27
    Salvator Mundi4:03
    A Hymne to God the Father2:05
    Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei6:39
    Lord, let me know mine end6:07
    O Lord, lok down from heaven4:37
    Coronation Music for King James II Album Cover

    Coronation Music for King James II

    1987
    TitleListen
    God Spake Sometimes in Visions:11:58
    Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened1:33
    Zadok the Priest1:16
    My Heart Is Inditing, Z 3016:07
    I Was Glad, Z 195:06
    O Lord, Grant the King a Long Life2:02
    Behold, O God Our Defender2:03
    The King Shall Rejoyce: Symphony5:12
    The King Shall Rejoyce: The King Shall Rejoyce1:55
    The King Shall Rejoyce: Thou Hast Giv'n Him3:55
    The King Shall Rejoyce: He Asked Life of Thee2:30
    The King Shall Rejoyce: His Honour Is Great2:09
    The King Shall Rejoyce: For Thou Shalt Give Him1:23
    The King Shall Rejoyce: And Why?2:41
    The King Shall Rejoyce: Be Thou Exalted2:25