The Fairy Queen

Album by Henry Purcell & Eiddwen Harrhy & Jennifer Smith & Judith Nelson & Elisabeth Priday & Timothy Penrose & Wynford Evans & Martyn Hill & Stephen Varcoe & David Thomas & Ashley Stafford & Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

The Fairy Queen is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1692. The work is in the Baroque style, with choruses, instrumental sinfonias and dance movements, and it is part of the English Restoration theatre tradition, composed near the end of Purcell's life.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Prelude
    1:58
  2. 2.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Hornpipe
    0:55
  3. 3.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Air
    0:47
  4. 4.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Rondeau
    1:29
  5. 5.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Overture
    2:03
  6. 6.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Song in Two Parts: "Come, come, come, let us leave"
    2:24
  7. 7.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Scene of the Drunken Poet: "Fill up the Bowl"
    6:39
  8. 8.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: First Act Tune: Jig
    1:11
  9. 9.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Prelude...Come, all ye songsters of the sky
    1:53
  10. 10.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Prelude
    0:50
  11. 11.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Trio: "May the God of Wit inspire"
    1:05
  12. 12.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Echo
    1:33
  13. 13.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Chorus: "Now Joyn your Warbling Voices all"
    0:28
  14. 14.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: A Dance of Fairies
    0:44
  15. 15.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Song and Chorus: "Sing while we trip it on the Green"
    1:43
  16. 16.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 14 "See, even Night herself is here"
    4:17
  17. 17.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 15 "I am come to lock all fast"
    1:12
  18. 18.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 16 "One charming night"
    1:58
  19. 19.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 17 "Hush, no more"
    3:19
  20. 20.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 18 Dance for the followers of night
    1:50
  21. 21.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air
    1:22
  22. 22.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: A Song in Two Parts and Chorus: "If Love's a Sweet Passion"
    8:02
  23. 23.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Overture: Symphony while the Swans come forward
    2:04
  24. 24.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Dance for the Fairies
    0:50
  25. 25.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Dance for the Green Men
    1:28
  26. 26.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Song: "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear"
    5:10
  27. 27.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Dialog: "Now the Maids and the Men"
    3:55
  28. 28.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Song: "When I have often heard"
    3:13
  29. 29.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: A Dance of Haymakers
    0:58
  30. 30.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Song and Chorus: "A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find"
    2:08
  31. 31.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    0:58

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Symphony
    6:12
  2. 3.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: no. 31 Solo & Chorus "Now the night"
    2:07
  3. 4.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Duet: "Let the fifes, and the Clarions"
    1:57
  4. 5.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Entry of Phoebus
    0:34
  5. 6.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "When a cruel long Winter"- Chorus: "Hail! Great Parent of us all"
    4:19
  6. 7.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "Thus the ever Grateful Spring"
    1:57
  7. 8.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay"
    1:39
  8. 9.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "See my many Colour'd Fields"
    3:03
  9. 10.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song and Chorus: "Now Winter comes Slowly"
    3:22
  10. 11.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air
    0:55
  11. 12.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Prelude
    1:08
  12. 13.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Epithalamium: Thrice happy Lovers
    2:38
  13. 14.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: The Plaint
    7:42
  14. 15.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Entry Dance
    1:09
  15. 16.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Symphony
    1:12
  16. 17.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Thus the gloomy world
    5:44
  17. 18.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Thus happy and free
    1:37
  18. 19.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Song: "Yes, Daphne, in your Looks I find"
    1:53
  19. 20.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Monkey's Dance
    1:03
  20. 21.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Hark! How all things
    2:07
  21. 22.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Hark! the Ech'ing Air
    2:51
  22. 23.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Sure the dull God
    2:06
  23. 24.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Prelude
    0:31
  24. 25.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Solo: "See, see, I obey"
    1:58
  25. 26.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Duet: Turn then thine Eyes"
    1:25
  26. 27.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Solo: "My Torch, indeed"
    0:44
  27. 28.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Trio: "They shall be as happy"
    1:10
  28. 29.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Air
    1:30
  29. 30.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Chorus: "They shall be as happy"
    1:10
  30. 31.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
    2:34

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