King Arthur

Album by Henry Purcell & BarokOpera Amsterdam & Frédérique Chauvet

King Arthur is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1691. The music uses Baroque orchestration with choral passages, solo airs and instrumental dances, and it comes from Purcell's mature period of writing for the English stage.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    King Arthur: Overture
    1:46
  2. 2.
    King Arthur: Air
    1:29
  3. 3.
    King Arthur: Overture
    1:16
  4. 4.
    King Arthur: "Woden, First To Thee" / "The White Horse Neigh'd Aloud" / "To Woden Thanks We Render"
    3:40
  5. 5.
    King Arthur: "The Lot Is Cast"
    0:33
  6. 6.
    King Arthur: "Brave Souls"
    2:20
  7. 7.
    King Arthur: "I Call You All To Woden's Hall"
    2:01
  8. 8.
    King Arthur: Symphony / "Come If You Dare"
    3:41
  9. 9.
    King Arthur: "Hither, This Way"
    2:12
  10. 10.
    King Arthur: "Let Not A Moonborn Elf" / Ritornello
    1:15
  11. 11.
    King Arthur: "Hither, This Way"
    0:37
  12. 12.
    King Arthur: "Come, Follow Me" / Ritornello
    2:25
  13. 13.
    King Arthur: [Song Tune] "How Blest Are Shepherds"
    6:37
  14. 14.
    King Arthur: Symphony / "Shepherd, Leave Decoying"
    2:10
  15. 15.
    King Arthur: Hornpipe / "Come, Shepherds"
    1:37
  16. 16.
    King Arthur: Second Act Tune: Air
    0:55
  17. 17.
    King Arthur: (The Frost Scene) Prelude / "What Ho! Thou Genius Of This Isle"
    1:20
  18. 18.
    King Arthur: Prelude While Cold Genius Rises / "What Power Art Thou"
    2:51
  19. 19.
    King Arthur: "Thou Doting Fool"
    1:03
  20. 20.
    King Arthur: "Great Love"
    0:54
  21. 21.
    King Arthur: "No Part Of My Dominion"
    0:55
  22. 22.
    King Arthur: Prelude / "See, See, We Assemble" / Dance
    3:26
  23. 23.
    King Arthur: "Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye" / Ritornello / "Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us"
    2:01
  24. 24.
    King Arthur: "Sound A Parley" / Ritornello
    3:44
  25. 25.
    King Arthur: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    0:38

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    King Arthur: "Two Daughters Of This Aged Stream"
    2:39
  2. 3.
    King Arthur: Passacaglia / "How Happy The Lover" / Ritornello / "For Love Ev'ry Creature"
    6:09
  3. 4.
    King Arthur: Fourth Act Tune: Air
    0:51
  4. 5.
    King Arthur: Trumpet Tune
    0:45
  5. 6.
    King Arthur: "Ye Blust'ring Brethren"
    2:43
  6. 7.
    King Arthur: Symphony
    1:39
  7. 8.
    King Arthur: Song Tune / "Round Thy Coast"
    3:17
  8. 9.
    King Arthur: "For Folded Flocks"
    2:42
  9. 10.
    King Arthur: Ritornello / "Your Hay It Is Mow'd" / Ritornello
    2:59
  10. 11.
    King Arthur: "Fairest Isle"
    4:06
  11. 12.
    King Arthur: "You Say 'Tis Love"
    5:24
  12. 13.
    King Arthur: Trumpet Tune [Warlike Consort]
    0:35
  13. 14.
    King Arthur: "St George" / "Our Natives Not Alone Appear"
    1:59
  14. 15.
    King Arthur: Chaconne
    3:24

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