King Arthur

Album by Henry Purcell & Véronique Gens & Claron McFadden & Sandrine Piau & Susannah Waters & Jonathan Best & Mark Padmore & Iain Paton & Petteri Salomaa & Les Arts Florissants & William Christie

King Arthur is a semi-opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1691. The work combines spoken theatre with substantial Baroque vocal and orchestral writing—including dance rhythms, choral passages and expressive solo numbers—and represents a major stage work in Purcell's later output that exemplifies the English Baroque theatrical style.
OperaBaroqueClassical

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  1. 1.
    King Arthur: Overture
    1:56
  2. 2.
    King Arthur: Air
    1:31
  3. 3.
    King Arthur: Act I. "Woden, first to thee"
    2:49
  4. 4.
    King Arthur: Act I. "Come if you dare"
    4:13
  5. 5.
    King Arthur: Act II. "Hither, this way, this way bend"
    2:05
  6. 6.
    King Arthur: Act II. "How blest are shepherds"
    5:19
  7. 7.
    King Arthur: Act II. "Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying"
    1:53
  8. 8.
    King Arthur: Act II. "Come, shepherds, lead up a lively measure"
    1:38
  9. 9.
    King Arthur: Act III. Prelude
    0:24
  10. 10.
    King Arthur: Act III. "What ho! thou genius of this isle"
    0:59
  11. 11.
    King Arthur: Act III. Prelude "While the Cold Genius rises" - "What power art thou"
    4:08
  12. 12.
    King Arthur: Act III. "Thou doting fool"
    0:37
  13. 13.
    King Arthur: Act III. "Great Love, I know thee now"
    0:55
  14. 14.
    King Arthur: Act III. "No part of my dominion"
    0:56
  15. 15.
    King Arthur: Act III. Prelude
    0:44
  16. 16.
    King Arthur: Act III. "See, see, we assemble"
    1:27
  17. 17.
    King Arthur: Act III. "'Tis I that have warm'd ye"
    1:59
  18. 18.
    King Arthur: Act III. "Sound a parley"
    4:00
  19. 19.
    King Arthur: Act III. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    0:46
  20. 20.
    King Arthur: Act IV. "Two daughters of this aged stream are we"
    2:31
  21. 21.
    King Arthur: Act IV. Passacaglia - "How happy the lover" - Ritornello - "For love every creature" - "In vain are our graces"
    7:12
  22. 22.
    King Arthur: Act V. Trumpet Tune
    0:45
  23. 23.
    King Arthur: Act V. "Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies"
    3:24
  24. 24.
    King Arthur: Act V. Symphony
    1:42
  25. 25.
    King Arthur: Act V. "Your hay it is mow'd"
    2:27
  26. 26.
    King Arthur: Act V. "Fairest Isle"
    4:42
  27. 27.
    King Arthur: Act V. "Our natives not alone appear"
    1:05
  28. 28.
    King Arthur: Act V. Chaconne
    3:29

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