King Arthur

Album by Henry Purcell & Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier

King Arthur is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1691. The score exemplifies Baroque theatre music, combining solo vocal numbers, choruses, instrumental passages and dances in support of an English dramatic work, and it represents a key example of Purcell's stage music and of Restoration-era English semi-opera.
OperaBaroqueClassical

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: First music: Overture
    2:32
  2. 2.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Second music: Aire
    1:15
  3. 3.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture
    2:36
  4. 4.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. Altar music
    1:26
  5. 5.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “Woden, first to thee”
    2:19
  6. 6.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “The white horse neigh’d aloud”
    1:18
  7. 7.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “The lot is cast”
    0:44
  8. 8.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “Brave souls”
    2:54
  9. 9.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “I call, I call”
    2:01
  10. 10.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “Come if you dare”
    3:08
  11. 11.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. First act tune
    1:11
  12. 12.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. “Hither, this way”
    2:11
  13. 13.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. “Let not a moon‐born elf”
    1:13
  14. 14.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. “Hither, this way”
    0:37
  15. 15.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. “Come follow me”
    2:17
  16. 16.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. “How blest are shepherds”
    4:52
  17. 17.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. “Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying”
    1:53
  18. 18.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. “Come, shepherds, lead up”
    0:44
  19. 19.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. Hornpipe
    0:41
  20. 20.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act II. Second act tune: Aire
    1:57
  21. 21.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. Prelude to the Frost Scene
    0:26
  22. 22.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “What ho! Thou genius of this isle”
    1:06
  23. 23.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “What power art thou”
    2:56
  24. 24.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “Thou doting fool”
    0:52
  25. 25.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “Great love, I know thee now”
    1:00
  26. 26.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “No part of my dominion shall be waste”
    1:06
  27. 27.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. Prelude
    0:55
  28. 28.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “See we assemble thy revels to hold”
    1:48
  29. 29.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. Dance
    2:01
  30. 30.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “’Tis I that have warm’d ye”
    1:48
  31. 31.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “Sound a parley”
    2:24
  32. 32.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “’Tis love that has warm’d us”
    1:24
  33. 33.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. Borée
    0:34
  34. 34.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. Third act tune: Hornpipe
    1:14

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act IV. Aire
    0:48
  2. 3.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act IV. Soft musick
    1:16
  3. 4.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act IV. “Two daughters of this aged stream”
    2:06
  4. 5.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act IV. Passacaglia – “How happy the lover”
    4:55
  5. 6.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act IV. “In vain are our graces”
    1:19
  6. 7.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act IV. Fourth act tune: trumpet tune
    0:53
  7. 8.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. “Ye blust’ring brethren”
    2:45
  8. 9.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. Symphony
    1:51
  9. 10.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. Song tune – “Round thy coasts”
    2:05
  10. 11.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. “For folded flocks”
    2:13
  11. 12.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. Song tune – “Your hay it is mow’d”
    2:34
  12. 13.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. Song tune – “Fairest isle”
    3:14
  13. 14.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. “You say, ’tis love”
    6:29
  14. 15.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. Trumpet tune
    0:38
  15. 16.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. “Saint George, the patron of our isle”
    2:08
  16. 17.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. “Our natives not alone appear”
    1:36
  17. 18.
    King Arthur, Z. 628: Act V. Grand dance: Chaconne
    3:18

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