The Fairy Queen

Album by Henry Purcell & Deller Consort & Stour Music Festival Choir & Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra & Alfred Deller

The Fairy-Queen is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1692. Combining spoken drama with Baroque vocal and instrumental forces, it features ornate solo lines, choral passages, dance rhythms and continuo-accompanied ensembles, and stands as one of Purcell's later stage works and a key example of the English Baroque semi-opera tradition.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    First Musick: Prelude
    1:58
  2. 2.
    First Musick: Hornpipe
    0:58
  3. 3.
    Second Musick: Air
    0:59
  4. 4.
    Second Musick: Rondeau
    1:20
  5. 5.
    Overture
    1:24
  6. 6.
    Act I: Come let us leave the town
    2:25
  7. 7.
    Scene of the Drunken Poet
    5:46
  8. 8.
    First Act Tune
    1:13
  9. 9.
    Act II: Come all ye songsters
    1:57
  10. 10.
    Prelude
    0:42
  11. 11.
    Act II: May the God of Wit
    0:59
  12. 12.
    Act II: While Echo shall remote
    1:06
  13. 13.
    Act II: Now join your warbling dance
    0:27
  14. 14.
    Act II: Fairy dance
    2:12
  15. 15.
    Act II: See, even Night
    5:14
  16. 16.
    Act II: I am come to lock all
    0:46
  17. 17.
    Act II: One charming night
    2:04
  18. 18.
    Act II: Hush, no more
    5:02
  19. 19.
    Dance
    2:23
  20. 20.
    Second Act Tune
    1:17
  21. 21.
    Act III: If love's a sweet passion
    2:19
  22. 22.
    Act III: Symphony
    3:25
  23. 23.
    Act III: Dances. For the Fairies
    0:51
  24. 24.
    Act III: Dances. For the Green Men
    1:45
  25. 25.
    Act III: Ye, gentle spirits of the air
    4:53
  26. 26.
    Act III: Dialogue
    3:51
  27. 27.
    Act III: When I have often heard
    2:49
  28. 28.
    Dance for the Haymakers
    0:52
  29. 29.
    Act III: A thousand ways
    2:33
  30. 30.
    Third Act Tune
    1:04

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Symphony
    6:13
  2. 3.
    Attendants - Now the night is chased away
    2:15
  3. 4.
    Attendants - Let the files … sound
    1:25
  4. 5.
    Entry of Phoebus
    0:38
  5. 6.
    Phoebus - When a cruel long winter
    3:17
  6. 7.
    Fairies - Hail ! Great parent of us all
    2:08
  7. 8.
    Spring - Thus the ever grateful Spring
    2:10
  8. 9.
    Summer - Here's the Summer
    1:11
  9. 10.
    Autumn - See my many coloured fields
    2:57
  10. 11.
    Winter - Now winter comes slowly
    2:46
  11. 12.
    Fairies - Hail ! Great parent of us all
    1:09
  12. 13.
    Fourth Act Tune
    1:07
  13. 14.
    Prelude
    0:37
  14. 15.
    Juno - Thrice happy lovers
    2:30
  15. 16.
    The plaint
    7:24
  16. 17.
    Entry dance
    1:15
  17. 18.
    Symphony
    1:05
  18. 19.
    The chinese man - Thus the gloomy world
    4:48
  19. 20.
    A chinese woman - Thus happy and free
    0:51
  20. 21.
    The Chinese Man - Yes, Xansi
    2:10
  21. 22.
    Monkey's Dance
    0:53
  22. 23.
    A chinese woman - Hark how all things
    2:01
  23. 24.
    A chinese woman - Hark how the echoing air
    2:44
  24. 25.
    A chinese woman - Sure the dull God of Marriage
    3:04
  25. 26.
    Hymen - See I obey
    1:53
  26. 27.
    Chinese woman - Turn then thine eyes
    1:32
  27. 28.
    Hymen - My torch indeed
    0:40
  28. 29.
    Trio
    0:49
  29. 30.
    Chaconne
    3:03
  30. 31.
    Chorus - They shall be as happy as they're fair
    1:01

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