The Fairy Queen

Album by Henry Purcell & Scholars Baroque Ensemble

The Fairy-Queen is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1692. Rooted in the English Baroque, the work blends spoken drama with masques and musical interludes featuring choruses, solo arias, dances and instrumental passages that showcase Purcell's expressive vocal writing, contrapuntal textures and basso continuo, and it is an important example of Restoration-era stage music within his output.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Fairy Queen: Overture
    1:26
  2. 2.
    The Fairy Queen: Act I. "Come let us leave the Town"
    2:02
  3. 3.
    The Fairy Queen: Act I. "Fill up the bowl then"
    6:47
  4. 4.
    The Fairy Queen: Act I. First Act Tune. Jig
    1:08
  5. 5.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Come all ye songsters of the Sky"
    2:07
  6. 6.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. Prelude
    1:04
  7. 7.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "May the God of Wit inspire"
    0:58
  8. 8.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Now join your Warbling Voices all"
    0:30
  9. 9.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Sing while we trip it on the Green"
    2:10
  10. 10.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "See, even Night her self is here"
    4:50
  11. 11.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "I am come to lock all fast"
    0:54
  12. 12.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "One charming Night"
    2:14
  13. 13.
    The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Hush, no more, be silent all"
    5:09
  14. 14.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Followers of Night
    1:22
  15. 15.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. "If love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?"
    2:28
  16. 16.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. Symphony While the Swans Come Forward
    1:40
  17. 17.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Fairies
    0:51
  18. 18.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Green Men
    1:41
  19. 19.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear"
    5:21
  20. 20.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. "Now the Maids and the men are making of hay"
    3:42
  21. 21.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Haymakers
    0:55
  22. 22.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. "When I have often heard you Maids complaining"
    3:12
  23. 23.
    The Fairy Queen: Act III. "A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find"
    2:24

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. Symphony
    6:25
  2. 3.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Now the night is chas'd away"
    2:02
  3. 4.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Let the Fifes, and the Clarions, and shrill trumpets sound"
    1:28
  4. 5.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. Entry of Phoebus
    0:38
  5. 6.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "When a cruel long Winter has frozen the earth"
    2:50
  6. 7.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Hail! Great Parent of us all"
    1:54
  7. 8.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Thus the ever Grateful Spring"
    2:02
  8. 9.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay"
    1:09
  9. 10.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "See my many Colour'd Fields"
    2:36
  10. 11.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Next Winter comes Slowly, Pale, Meager, and Old"
    2:39
  11. 12.
    The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Hail! Great Parent of us all"
    1:58
  12. 13.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. Prelude
    1:07
  13. 14.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thrice happy Lovers, may you be"
    2:52
  14. 15.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "O Let me ever, ever weep"
    7:04
  15. 16.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. Symphony
    0:50
  16. 17.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thus the gloomy World"
    4:21
  17. 18.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thus Happy and Free"
    1:03
  18. 19.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Yes, Xansi, in your Looks I find"
    2:23
  19. 20.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. Monkeys' Dance
    0:54
  20. 21.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Hark! how all things in one Sound rejoice"
    2:02
  21. 22.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Hark! how the Echoing Air a Triumph sings"
    2:35
  22. 23.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Sure the dull God of Marriage does not hear"
    2:56
  23. 24.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. Prelude
    0:19
  24. 25.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "See, see, I obey"
    2:15
  25. 26.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Turn then the Eyes upon those Glories there"
    1:31
  26. 27.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "My Torch, indeed, will from such Brightness shine"
    1:05
  27. 28.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. Chaconne. The Grand Dance
    2:44
  28. 29.
    The Fairy Queen: Act V. "They shall be as happy as they're fair"
    2:09
  29. 30.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. First Musick Prelude
    1:50
  30. 31.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. First Musick Hornpipe
    0:57
  31. 32.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Second Musick Air
    0:56
  32. 33.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Second Musick Rondeau
    1:27
  33. 34.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Second Act Tune. Air
    1:17
  34. 35.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Fourth Act Tune. Air
    0:58
  35. 36.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Third Act Tune. Hornpipe
    0:59
  36. 37.
    The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Entry Dance
    1:35

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