The Fairy Queen

Album by Henry Purcell & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

The Fairy-Queen is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1692. Blending Baroque vocal and instrumental forces with masque scenes and courtly dances, it sets music to an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and occupies a notable place in the repertoire of Restoration theatre music and the English Baroque tradition.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Fairy Queen: Prelude
    1:58
  2. 2.
    The Fairy Queen: Hornpipe
    0:55
  3. 3.
    The Fairy Queen: Air
    0:48
  4. 4.
    The Fairy Queen: Rondeau
    1:30
  5. 5.
    The Fairy Queen: Overture
    2:06
  6. 6.
    The Fairy Queen: Song in two parts: 'Come, come, come, let us leave the Town'
    2:26
  7. 7.
    The Fairy Queen: Scene of the drunken poet: 'Fill up the bowl'
    6:40
  8. 8.
    The Fairy Queen: First act tune: Jig
    1:20
  9. 9.
    The Fairy Queen: Prelude and song: 'Come all ye songsters of the sky'
    1:54
  10. 10.
    The Fairy Queen: Prelude
    0:50
  11. 11.
    The Fairy Queen: Trio: 'May the God of wit inspire'
    1:05
  12. 12.
    The Fairy Queen: Echo
    1:34
  13. 13.
    The Fairy Queen: Chorus: 'Now joyn your Warbling Voices all'
    0:28
  14. 14.
    The Fairy Queen: A dance of Fairies
    0:44
  15. 15.
    The Fairy Queen: Song and chorus: 'Sing while we trip it on the green'
    1:44
  16. 16.
    The Fairy Queen: Song: 'See, even Night her self is here' (NIGHT)
    4:18
  17. 17.
    The Fairy Queen: Song: 'I am come to lock all fast' (MYSTERY)
    1:11
  18. 18.
    The Fairy Queen: Song: 'One charming Night' (SECRESIE)
    1:58
  19. 19.
    The Fairy Queen: Song and chorus: 'Hush, no more, be silent all' (SLEEP)
    3:21
  20. 20.
    The Fairy Queen: A dance for the followers of Night
    1:53
  21. 21.
    The Fairy Queen: Second act tune: Air
    1:30
  22. 22.
    The Fairy Queen: A song in two parts and chorus: 'If Love's a sweet passion'
    8:03
  23. 23.
    The Fairy Queen: Overture: Symphony while the swans come forward
    2:04
  24. 24.
    The Fairy Queen: Dance for the Fairies
    0:50
  25. 25.
    The Fairy Queen: Dance for the Green Men
    1:28
  26. 26.
    The Fairy Queen: Song: 'Ye gentle spirits of the air, appear'
    5:11
  27. 27.
    The Fairy Queen: Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa: 'Now the maids and the men'
    3:57
  28. 28.
    The Fairy Queen: Song: 'When I have often heard' (A NYMPH)
    3:13
  29. 29.
    The Fairy Queen: A Dance of Haymakers
    0:57
  30. 30.
    The Fairy Queen: Song and chorus: 'A thousand thousand ways we'll find'
    2:08
  31. 31.
    The Fairy Queen: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    0:58

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Fairy Queen: Symphony
    6:12
  2. 3.
    The Fairy Queen: Solo anc Chorus: 'Now the Night is chac'd away'
    2:07
  3. 4.
    The Fairy Queen: Duet: 'Let the fifes, and the clarions' (TWO OTHERS)
    1:57
  4. 5.
    The Fairy Queen: Entry of Phoebus
    0:34
  5. 6.
    The Fairy Queen: 'When a cruel long Winter' (PHOEBUS) - Chorus: 'Hail! Great parent of us all'
    4:20
  6. 7.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Thus the ever grateful spring' (SPRING)
    1:58
  7. 8.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Here's the summer, sprightly, gay' (SUMMER)
    1:40
  8. 9.
    The Fairy Queen: 'See my many colour'd fields' (AUTUMN)
    3:03
  9. 10.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Now winter comes slowly' (WINTER)
    3:23
  10. 11.
    The Fairy Queen: Fourth act tune: Air
    1:03
  11. 12.
    The Fairy Queen: Prelude
    1:07
  12. 13.
    The Fairy Queen: Epithalamium: 'Thrice happy lovers' (JUNO)
    2:40
  13. 14.
    The Fairy Queen: The plaint: 'O let me weep'
    7:42
  14. 15.
    The Fairy Queen: Entry dance
    1:11
  15. 16.
    The Fairy Queen: Symphony
    1:12
  16. 17.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Thus the gloomy world' (A CHINESE MAN)
    5:44
  17. 18.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Thus happy and free' (CHINESE WOMAN)
    1:38
  18. 19.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Yes, Daphne, in your looks I find' (CHINESE MAN)
    1:55
  19. 20.
    The Fairy Queen: Monkey's Dance
    1:04
  20. 21.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Hark how all things' (1st WOMAN)
    2:07
  21. 22.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Hark now the echoing air' (2nd WOMAN)
    2:51
  22. 23.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Sure the full God of marriage' (BOTH WOMEN)
    2:07
  23. 24.
    The Fairy Queen: Prelude
    0:31
  24. 25.
    The Fairy Queen: 'See, see, I obey' (HYMEN)
    1:58
  25. 26.
    The Fairy Queen: 'Turn then thine eyes' (BOTH WOMEN)
    1:25
  26. 27.
    The Fairy Queen: 'My torch, indeed' (HYMEN)
    0:44
  27. 28.
    The Fairy Queen: 'They shall be as happy' (BOTH WOMEN, HYMEN)
    1:11
  28. 29.
    The Fairy Queen: Air
    1:30
  29. 30.
    The Fairy Queen: They shall be as happy
    1:11
  30. 31.
    The Fairy Queen: Dance for chinese man and woman
    2:33

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