Chandler, Mary % Suite on Airs of Purcell (score & parts) - OB/STG4

Suite on Airs of Henry Purcellfor oboe and string quartetby Mary Chandler (1911-1996) -English composer I. Adagio-Allegro-Adagio If Music Be the Food of Love from Don Quixote II. Allegro Ah, How Sweet it is to Love III. Lento The Cares of Lovers from Timon of Athens IV. Allegro I'll Sail Upon the Dog-star from The Fool's Preferment V. Presto ma non troppo Then Prithee Aminta, Consent and be Kind   Arranged in the 1950s, the music for this Suite comes from Orpheus Britannicus, a collection of Purcell's songs published in 1698, three years after his death. The four movements of the Suite keep very closely to the vocal line and figured bass of the original vocal lines.