The Indian Queen

Album by Henry Purcell & Tessa Bonner & Catherine Bott & Rogers Covey‐Crump & Peter Harvey & The Purcell Simfony & The Purcell Simfony Voices

The Indian Queen is a semi-opera (incidental music) by English composer Henry Purcell, written for a 1695 staging of the play. The score combines Baroque orchestration, choral numbers and masque-like instrumental scenes, and represents one of Purcell's late theatre works that exemplifies his contribution to English Baroque dramatic music.
First released: 1995

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The Indian Queen: Overture (Act 1)
    3:27
  2. 2.
    The Indian Queen: Trumpet Tune (Act 1)
    0:41
  3. 3.
    The Indian Queen: Wake, Quivera, wake (Act 1)
    2:15
  4. 4.
    The Indian Queen: Why should men quarrel? (Act 1)
    1:30
  5. 5.
    The Indian Queen: By ancient prophesies (Act 1)
    0:56
  6. 6.
    The Indian Queen: If these be they (Act 1)
    0:30
  7. 7.
    The Indian Queen: Their looks are such (Act 1)
    1:37
  8. 8.
    The Indian Queen: If so (Act 1)
    1:31
  9. 9.
    The Indian Queen: Symphony (Act 2)
    4:20
  10. 10.
    The Indian Queen: I come to sing great Zempoalla’s story (Act 2)
    1:26
  11. 11.
    The Indian Queen: What flatt'ring noise is this? (Act 2)
    0:51
  12. 12.
    The Indian Queen: Scorn'd envy (Act 2)
    0:50
  13. 13.
    The Indian Queen: I fly from the place (Act 2)
    1:15
  14. 14.
    The Indian Queen: Begone, begone (Act 2)
    1:01
  15. 15.
    The Indian Queen: Second Act Tune (Act 2)
    0:44
  16. 16.
    The Indian Queen: Dance (Act 2)
    0:36
  17. 17.
    The Indian Queen: Dance (Act 2)
    0:55
  18. 18.
    The Indian Queen: Ye twice ten hundred deities (Act 3)
    1:22
  19. 19.
    The Indian Queen: By the croaking of the toad (Act 3)
    3:13
  20. 20.
    The Indian Queen: Symphony (Act 3)
    1:02
  21. 21.
    The Indian Queen: Seek not to know (Act 3)
    2:45
  22. 22.
    The Indian Queen: Trumpet Overture (Act 3)
    2:48
  23. 23.
    The Indian Queen: Ariel spirits (Act 3)
    2:11
  24. 24.
    The Indian Queen: We the spirits of the air (Act 3)
    1:34
  25. 25.
    The Indian Queen: I attempt from love's sickness (Act 3)
    3:05
  26. 26.
    The Indian Queen: Third Act Tune (Act 3)
    1:24
  27. 27.
    The Indian Queen: They tell us your mighty powers above (Act 4)
    5:12
  28. 28.
    The Indian Queen: Fourth Act Tune (Act 4)
    0:57
  29. 29.
    The Indian Queen: Air (1st Music)
    1:21
  30. 30.
    The Indian Queen: Hornpipe (1st Music)
    0:51
  31. 31.
    The Indian Queen: Air (2nd Music)
    1:04
  32. 32.
    The Indian Queen: Hornpipe (2nd Music)
    1:01
  33. 33.
    The Indian Queen: While thus we bow (Act 5)
    2:16
  34. 34.
    The Indian Queen: You who at the altar stand (Act 5)
    1:10
  35. 35.
    The Indian Queen: All dismal sounds (Act 5)
    2:30

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