The Fairy Queen

Album by Henry Purcell

The Fairy-Queen is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1692. Blending spoken drama with masques, vocal airs, dances and instrumental interludes, it exemplifies Restoration-era English Baroque through richly textured vocal writing and orchestral colour, and is a prominent example among Purcell's stage works and in the development of English theatre music.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    First Musick: Prelude
    1:50
  2. 2.
    First Musick: Hornpipe
    0:54
  3. 3.
    Second Musick: Air
    0:52
  4. 4.
    Second Musick: Rondeau
    1:36
  5. 5.
    Second Musick: Overture
    1:25
  6. 6.
    Act 1: Duet: Come let us leave the town
    2:55
  7. 7.
    Act 1: Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the bowl
    6:12
  8. 8.
    Act 1: First Act Tune: Jig
    1:13
  9. 9.
    Act 2: Prelude: Come all ye songsters of the sky
    2:03
  10. 10.
    Act 2: Prelude, Choral Trio: May the God of Wit inspire
    4:16
  11. 11.
    Act 2: Chorus: Now join your warbling voices all
    0:29
  12. 12.
    Act 2: Soprano Solo: Sing while we trip it
    2:06
  13. 13.
    Act 2: Night: See, even Night herself is here
    4:38
  14. 14.
    Act 2: Mystery: I am come to lock all fast
    1:11
  15. 15.
    Act 2: Secrecy: One charming night
    2:25
  16. 16.
    Act 2: Sleep, Chorus: Hush, no more
    4:03
  17. 17.
    Act 2: Dance for the Followers of Night
    1:15
  18. 18.
    Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air
    1:15
  19. 19.
    Act 3: Soprano Solo, Chorus: If love's a sweet passion
    4:26
  20. 20.
    Act 3: Symphony while the swans come forward
    1:48
  21. 21.
    Act 3: Dance for the Fairies
    0:52
  22. 22.
    Act 3: Dance for the Green Men
    1:39
  23. 23.
    Act 3: Soprano Solo: Ye gentle spirits of the air
    5:24
  24. 24.
    Act 3: Dialogue Between Coridon and Mopsa: Now the maids and the men
    3:49
  25. 25.
    Act 3: Dance for the Haymakers
    0:54
  26. 26.
    Act 3: A Nymph: When I have often heard
    3:08
  27. 27.
    Act 3: Duet, Chorus: A thousand, thousand ways
    2:39
  28. 28.
    Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    1:00

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Act 4: Symphony
    6:17
  2. 3.
    Act 4: An Attendant, Chorus: Now the night is chased away
    2:02
  3. 4.
    Act 4: Duet: Let the fifes and the clarions
    1:24
  4. 5.
    Act 4: Entry of Phoebus
    0:36
  5. 6.
    Act 4: Phoebus: When a cruel long winter
    2:42
  6. 7.
    Act 4: Chorus: Hail! Great parent of us all
    1:56
  7. 8.
    Act 4: Spring: Thus the ever grateful spring
    2:19
  8. 9.
    Act 4: Summer: Here's the summer, sprightly, gay
    1:44
  9. 10.
    Act 4: Autumn: See my many coloured fields
    2:22
  10. 11.
    Act 4: Winter: Next winter comes slowly
    2:26
  11. 12.
    Act 4: Hail! Great Parent of us all
    1:01
  12. 13.
    Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air
    1:09
  13. 14.
    Act 5: Prelude
    1:09
  14. 15.
    Act 5: Juno: Thrice happy lovers
    2:48
  15. 16.
    Act 5: The Plaint: O let me ever, ever weep
    7:07
  16. 17.
    Act 5: Entry Dance
    1:16
  17. 18.
    Act 5: Symphony
    1:15
  18. 19.
    Act 5: A Chinese Man: Thus the gloomy world
    4:35
  19. 20.
    Act 5: A Chinese Woman, Chorus: Thus happy and free
    1:29
  20. 21.
    Act 5: A Chinese Man: Yes, Xansi
    2:17
  21. 22.
    Act 5: Monkey's Dance
    0:48
  22. 23.
    Act 5: A Chinese Woman: Hark! now all things
    2:08
  23. 24.
    Act 5: A Chinese Woman: Hark! The echoing air
    2:43
  24. 25.
    Act 5: Two Chinese Women: Sure the dull God of Marriage
    2:33
  25. 26.
    Act 5: Prelude
    0:32
  26. 27.
    Act 5: Hymen: See, see I obey
    4:11
  27. 28.
    Act 5: Two Chinese Women, Hymen: They shall be as happy as they're fair
    1:02
  28. 29.
    Act 5: Chaconne: Dance for the Chinese man and woman
    2:43
  29. 30.
    Act 5: Chorus: They shall be as happy as they're fair
    1:17

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