Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen / Dido and Aeneas (English Chamber Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Strings)
2001

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": Symphony 6:53
2 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Now the night is chas'd away" 2:42
3 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Let the fifes and the clarions...Dance" 2:05
4 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "When a cruel long Winter" 2:50
5 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Hail! great parent of us all" 2:16
6 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Thus the ever grateful Spring" 2:48
7 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Here's the Summer, springly, gay" 1:14
8 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "See, my many-coloured fields" 3:01
9 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Next, Winter comes slowly" 2:58
10 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Hail! great parent of us all" 2:22
11 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": Prelude - "Come, all ye songsters of the sky" 2:32
12 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "The Songsters... May the god of wit inspire" 1:57
13 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Echo... Now join your warbling voices all" 2:14
14 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Fill up the bowl, then" 6:37
15 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "See, even Night herself is here" 5:24
16 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "I am come to lock all fast" 0:42
17 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "One charming night" 2:15
18 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Hush, no more" 4:04
19 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Dance for the followers of night" 1:32
20 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": Overture 1:44
21 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "If love's a sweet passion" 2:40
22 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "The Plaint: O let me weep, for ever weep!" 7:50
23 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "Now the maids and the men are making of hay" 3:43
24 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "A dance of haymakers" 0:55
25 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "A thousand, thousand ways" 3:06
26 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "Hornpipe and rondeau" 2:33
Total time 78:57
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": Symphony 1:28
2 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Hark! hark! the echoing air" 2:29
3 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Sure the dull God of Marriage" 2:25
4 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "See, I obey" 1:50
5 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Turn then thine eyes" 1:10
6 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "My torch indeed... They shall be as happy" 2:57
7 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Chaconne" 3:33
8 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "They shall be as happy" 1:05
9 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. Overture 2:17
10 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Shake the cloud from off your brow" 1:09
11 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment" 5:15
12 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Whence could so much virtue spring?" 2:06
13 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Fear no danger to ensue" 1:36
14 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "See, your royal guest appears" 5:13
15 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward sisters" 3:19
16 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Ruin'd ere the set of sun" 5:28
17 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome dales" 3:44
18 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Oft she visits this lov'd mountain" 2:29
19 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Behold, upon my bending spear" 1:20
20 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command" 6:05
21 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors" 2:17
22 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "See the flags and streamers curling" 3:19
23 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" 3:40
24 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "But Death, alas! ... When I am laid in earth" 6:29
25 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "With drooping wings ye Cupids come" 4:59
Total time 77:42



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