Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen (The English Baroque Soloists feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner)
1987

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Prelude 1:58
2 Hornpipe 0:55
3 Air 0:48
4 Rondeau 1:30
5 Overture 2:06
6 Song in two parts: 'Come, come, come, let us leave the Town' 2:26
7 Scene of the drunken poet: 'Fill up the bowl' 6:40
8 First act tune: Jig 1:20
9 Prelude and song: 'Come all ye songsters of the sky' 1:54
10 Prelude 0:50
11 Trio: 'May the God of wit inspire' 1:05
12 Echo 1:34
13 Chorus: 'Now joyn your Warbling Voices all' 0:28
14 A dance of Fairies 0:44
15 Song and chorus: 'Sing while we trip it on the green' 1:44
16 Song: 'See, even Night her self is here' (NIGHT) 4:18
17 Song: 'I am come to lock all fast' (MYSTERY) 1:11
18 Song: 'One charming Night' (SECRESIE) 1:58
19 Song and chorus: 'Hush, no more, be silent all' (SLEEP) 3:21
20 A dance for the followers of Night 1:53
21 Second act tune: Air 1:30
22 A song in two parts and chorus: 'If Love's a sweet passion' 8:03
23 Overture: Symphony while the swans come forward 2:04
24 Dance for the Fairies 0:50
25 Dance for the Green Men 1:28
26 Song: 'Ye gentle spirits of the air, appear' 5:11
27 Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa: 'Now the maids and the men' 3:57
28 Song: 'When I have often heard' (A NYMPH) 3:13
29 A Dance of Haymakers 0:57
30 Song and chorus: 'A thousand thousand ways we'll find' 2:08
31 Third Act Tune: Hornpipe 0:58
Total time 69:02
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Symphony 6:12
2 Solo anc Chorus: 'Now the Night is chac'd away' 2:07
3 Duet: 'Let the fifes, and the clarions' (TWO OTHERS) 1:57
4 Entry of Phoebus 0:34
5 'When a cruel long Winter' (PHOEBUS) - Chorus: 'Hail! Great parent of us all' 4:20
6 'Thus the ever grateful spring' (SPRING) 1:58
7 'Here's the summer, sprightly, gay' (SUMMER) 1:40
8 'See my many colour'd fields' (AUTUMN) 3:03
9 'Now winter comes slowly' (WINTER) 3:23
10 Fourth act tune: Air 1:03
11 Prelude 1:07
12 Epithalamium: 'Thrice happy lovers' (JUNO) 2:40
13 The plaint: 'O let me weep' 7:42
14 Entry dance 1:11
15 Symphony 1:12
16 'Thus the gloomy world' (A CHINESE MAN) 5:44
17 'Thus happy and free' (CHINESE WOMAN) 1:38
18 'Yes, Daphne, in your looks I find' (CHINESE MAN) 1:55
19 Monkey's Dance 1:04
20 'Hark how all things' (1st WOMAN) 2:07
21 'Hark now the echoing air' (2nd WOMAN) 2:51
22 'Sure the full God of marriage' (BOTH WOMEN) 2:07
23 Prelude 0:31
24 'See, see, I obey' (HYMEN) 1:58
25 'Turn then thine eyes' (BOTH WOMEN) 1:25
26 'My torch, indeed' (HYMEN) 0:44
27 'They shall be as happy' (BOTH WOMEN, HYMEN) 1:11
28 Air 1:30
29 They shall be as happy 1:11
30 Dance for chinese man and woman 2:33
Total time 68:38



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