King Arthur

Album by Henry Purcell & Jennifer Smith & Gillian Fisher & Elisabeth Priday & Gill Ross & Ashley Stafford & Paul Elliott & Stephen Varcoe & Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

King Arthur is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1691. The work blends Baroque vocal and orchestral idioms with spoken drama, employing choruses, arias and instrumental passages to illustrate the action, and it figures notably among Purcell's stage works and in the repertoire of English Restoration stage music.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Overture
    1:47
  2. 2.
    Air
    1:30
  3. 3.
    Overture
    1:18
  4. 4.
    Woden, first to thee - The White Horse Neigh'd Aloud - To Woden Thanks We Render
    3:40
  5. 5.
    The Lot Is Cast, And Tanfan Pleas'd
    0:32
  6. 6.
    Brave Souls, To Be Renown'd In Story
    2:21
  7. 7.
    I Call You All To Woden's Hall
    2:02
  8. 8.
    Come If You Dare
    3:44
  9. 9.
    Hither, This Way, This Way Bend
    2:12
  10. 10.
    Let Not A Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye
    1:15
  11. 11.
    Hither, This Way, This Way Bend
    0:37
  12. 12.
    Come, Follow Me
    2:27
  13. 13.
    How Blest Are Shepherds
    6:37
  14. 14.
    Shepherd, Leave Decoying
    2:11
  15. 15.
    Come, Shepherds, Lead Up A Lively Measure
    1:38
  16. 16.
    Second Act Tune: Air
    0:59
  17. 17.
    Prelude - The Frost Scene - What Ho! Thou Genius Of This Isle
    1:22
  18. 18.
    Prelude While The Cold Genius Rises - What Power ArtThou
    2:51
  19. 19.
    Thou Doting Fool
    1:03
  20. 20.
    Great Love, I Know Thee Now
    0:54
  21. 21.
    No Part Of My Dominion
    0:55
  22. 22.
    Prelude - See, See, We Assemble
    3:26
  23. 23.
    'Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye - 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us
    2:01
  24. 24.
    Sound A Parley - 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us
    3:44
  25. 25.
    Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    0:39

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Two Daughters Of This Aged Stream Are We
    2:42
  2. 3.
    Passacaglia - How Happy The Lover - Ritornello - For Love Every Creature
    6:11
  3. 4.
    Fourth Act Tune: Air
    0:56
  4. 5.
    Trumpet Tune
    0:39
  5. 6.
    Ye Blust'ring Brethren Of The Skies
    2:50
  6. 7.
    Symphony
    1:40
  7. 8.
    Song Tune - Round Thy Coast
    3:18
  8. 9.
    For Folded Flocks, And Fruitful Plains
    2:43
  9. 10.
    Ritornello - Your Hay It Is Mow'd
    3:02
  10. 11.
    Fairest Isle
    4:08
  11. 12.
    You Say 'Tis Love
    5:28
  12. 13.
    Trumpet Tune - Warlike Consort
    0:36
  13. 14.
    St George - Our Natives Not Alone Appear
    2:01
  14. 15.
    Chaconne
    3:24

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