The Tempest

Album by Henry Purcell & Monteverdi Choir & Monteverdi Orchestra & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

The Tempest is incidental music by the English composer Henry Purcell, written in 1695. The music is in the Baroque style with courtly dances, choral passages and instrumental suites; it has expressive harmonic writing and varied orchestral textures and comes from Purcell's late output of theatre music for the Restoration stage.

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  1. 1.
    The Tempest: Ouverture
    4:10
  2. 2.
    The Tempest: Act II - Masque of Devils - No.1 - Duet & Chorus; ''Where Does the Black Fiend''
    2:07
  3. 3.
    The Tempest: Act II - Chorus; ''Around, Around We Pace''
    1:38
  4. 4.
    The Tempest: Act II - Air; ''Arise, Ye Subterranean Winds''
    3:02
  5. 5.
    The Tempest: Act II - Dance of Winds
    1:22
  6. 6.
    The Tempest: Act III - Song & Chorus; ''Comme Unto These Yellow Sands''
    1:25
  7. 7.
    The Tempest: Act III - Song & Chorus; ''Full Fathom Five''
    2:13
  8. 8.
    The Tempest: Act III - Air; ''Dry Those Eyes''
    6:09
  9. 9.
    The Tempest: Act III - Air; ''Kind Fortune Smiles''
    1:07
  10. 10.
    The Tempest: Act IV - No.9 - Dance of Devils
    0:28
  11. 11.
    The Tempest: Act IV - ''the Sailor's Dance''
    1:09
  12. 12.
    The Tempest: Act IV - Air; ''Dear Pretty Youth''
    2:08
  13. 13.
    The Tempest: Act V - Récit & Air; ''Great Neptune!''
    4:05
  14. 14.
    The Tempest: Act V - Chorus: ''the Nereids and Tritons''
    1:55
  15. 15.
    The Tempest: Act V - Récit & Air; ''Aeolus, You Must Appear''
    3:15
  16. 16.
    The Tempest: Act V - Récit & Air; ''Your Awful Voice I Hear''
    4:22
  17. 17.
    The Tempest: Act V - Air; ''Halcyon Days''
    6:30
  18. 18.
    The Tempest: Act V - Air; ''See, See, the Heavens Smile''
    4:57
  19. 19.
    The Tempest: Act V - Duet & Chorus; ''No Stars Again Shall Hurt You''
    5:30

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