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

First released: 3rd September 2007

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Symphony
    6:12
  2. 2.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Prelude
    1:58
  3. 3.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Hornpipe
    0:55
  4. 4.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: no. 31 Solo & Chorus "Now the night"
    2:07
  5. 5.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Air
    0:47
  6. 6.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Duet: "Let the fifes, and the Clarions"
    1:57
  7. 7.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Entry of Phoebus
    0:34
  8. 8.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Rondeau
    1:29
  9. 9.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Overture
    2:03
  10. 10.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "When a cruel long Winter"- Chorus: "Hail! Great Parent of us all"
    4:19
  11. 11.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "Thus the ever Grateful Spring"
    1:57
  12. 12.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Song in Two Parts: "Come, come, come, let us leave"
    2:24
  13. 13.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: Scene of the Drunken Poet: "Fill up the Bowl"
    6:39
  14. 14.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay"
    1:39
  15. 15.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 1: First Act Tune: Jig
    1:11
  16. 16.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song: "See my many Colour'd Fields"
    3:03
  17. 17.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Song and Chorus: "Now Winter comes Slowly"
    3:22
  18. 18.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Prelude...Come, all ye songsters of the sky
    1:53
  19. 19.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air
    0:55
  20. 20.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Prelude
    0:50
  21. 21.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Trio: "May the God of Wit inspire"
    1:05
  22. 22.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Prelude
    1:08
  23. 23.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Epithalamium: Thrice happy Lovers
    2:38
  24. 24.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Echo
    1:33
  25. 25.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: The Plaint
    7:42
  26. 26.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Chorus: "Now Joyn your Warbling Voices all"
    0:28
  27. 27.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: A Dance of Fairies
    0:44
  28. 28.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Entry Dance
    1:09
  29. 29.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Symphony
    1:12
  30. 30.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Song and Chorus: "Sing while we trip it on the Green"
    1:43
  31. 31.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 14 "See, even Night herself is here"
    4:17
  32. 32.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Thus the gloomy world
    5:44
  33. 33.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Thus happy and free
    1:37
  34. 34.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 15 "I am come to lock all fast"
    1:12
  35. 35.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 16 "One charming night"
    1:58
  36. 36.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Song: "Yes, Daphne, in your Looks I find"
    1:53
  37. 37.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Monkey's Dance
    1:03
  38. 38.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 17 "Hush, no more"
    3:19
  39. 39.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: no. 18 Dance for the followers of night
    1:50
  40. 40.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Hark! How all things
    2:07
  41. 41.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air
    1:22
  42. 42.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Hark! the Ech'ing Air
    2:51
  43. 43.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Sure the dull God
    2:06
  44. 44.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: A Song in Two Parts and Chorus: "If Love's a Sweet Passion"
    8:02
  45. 45.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Prelude
    0:31
  46. 46.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Overture: Symphony while the Swans come forward
    2:04
  47. 47.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Dance for the Fairies
    0:50
  48. 48.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Solo: "See, see, I obey"
    1:58
  49. 49.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Dance for the Green Men
    1:28
  50. 50.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Duet: Turn then thine Eyes"
    1:25
  51. 51.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Solo: "My Torch, indeed"
    0:44
  52. 52.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Song: "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear"
    5:10
  53. 53.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Trio: "They shall be as happy"
    1:10
  54. 54.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Dialog: "Now the Maids and the Men"
    3:55
  55. 55.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Song: "When I have often heard"
    3:13
  56. 56.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Air
    1:30
  57. 57.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: A Dance of Haymakers
    0:58
  58. 58.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Chorus: "They shall be as happy"
    1:10
  59. 59.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 5: Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
    2:34
  60. 60.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Song and Chorus: "A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find"
    2:08
  61. 61.
    The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    0:58

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