The Indian Queen

Album by Henry Purcell & Sir John Eliot Gardiner & Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists

The Indian Queen is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1695. The work blends vocal and instrumental writing in the Restoration theatre tradition, with choruses, dances and instrumental overtures that reflect Purcell's mature Baroque style and his role in English theatre music.
First released: 2007

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    1st Music First Air
    1:20
  2. 2.
    1st Music Second Air
    1:08
  3. 3.
    2nd Music First Hornpipe
    0:54
  4. 4.
    2nd Music Second Hornpipe
    1:24
  5. 5.
    Overture Adagio
    1:44
  6. 6.
    Overture Allegro
    1:54
  7. 7.
    Trumpet Tune
    0:47
  8. 8.
    Prologue "Wake, Quivera"
    2:13
  9. 9.
    Prologue "Why should men quarrel"
    1:29
  10. 10.
    Prologue "By ancient prophecies"
    4:29
  11. 11.
    Trumpet Tune Reprise
    0:47
  12. 12.
    Act2 1 Symphony Canzona
    2:07
  13. 13.
    Act2 2 Symphony Adagio
    1:51
  14. 14.
    Act2 3 Symphony Allegro
    0:57
  15. 15.
    Act2 4 "I come to sing great Zempoalla' Story"
    0:56
  16. 16.
    Act2 5 "What flatering noise is this"
    0:42
  17. 17.
    Act2 6 "Scorn'd Envy, here's nothing"
    1:03
  18. 18.
    Act2 7 "I Fly from the place"
    1:07
  19. 19.
    Act2 8 "Begone, curst fiends of Hell"
    0:41
  20. 20.
    Act2 9 "I come to sing"
    1:27
  21. 21.
    Act3 1 Air
    0:41
  22. 22.
    Act3 2 Minuet
    1:31
  23. 23.
    Act3 3 "Ye twice ten hundred deities"
    5:29
  24. 24.
    Act3 4 Symphony for hautboys
    1:05
  25. 25.
    Act3 5 "Seek not to know"
    2:54
  26. 26.
    Act3 6 Trumpet Overture
    2:59
  27. 27.
    Act3 7 "Ah, how happy are we"
    2:33
  28. 28.
    Act3 8 "We the spirits of the Air"
    1:30
  29. 29.
    Act3 9 "I attempt grom love's sickness"
    1:48
  30. 30.
    Act3 10 Air
    1:17
  31. 31.
    Act3 11 Third act tune
    1:57
  32. 32.
    Act4 "They tell us that your mighty powers"
    3:36
  33. 33.
    Act5 "While thus we bow"
    6:17

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