Purcell: The Fairy Queen (2 CD)

1: Purcell: The Fairy Queen CD1 (CD-Audio)

First Music: Prelude (01:51) First Music: Hornpipe (00:53) Second Music: Aire (00:50) Second Music: Rondeau (01:12) Overture (01:27) Duet: Come, let us leave the town (GK, ME) (02:18) Scene of the Drunken Poet (MB, GK, RO) (06:41) First Act Tune: Jig (01:15) Solo: Come, all ye songsters (AC) (02:21) Interlude (00:58) Terzetto: May the God of Wit inspire (WT, RM, MB) (01:09) Echo (01:25) Chorus: Now join your warbling voices all (00:32) Solo with Chorus: Sing while we trip it (GK) (02:23) Night: See, even Night herself is here (CS) (05:37) Mistery: I am come to lock all fast (RO) (00:58) Secrecy: One charming night (AC) (02:27) Sleep and Chorus: Hush, no more, be silent all (MB) (04:39) Dance for the Followers of Night (01:15) Second Act Tune: Aire (01:11) Solo with Chorus: If love’s a sweet passion (RO) (03:53) Symphony while the swans come forward (01:35) Dance for the Fairies (00:48) Dance for the Green Man (01:21) Solo: Ye gentle spirits of the air (CS) (05:33) Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa: Now the Maids and the Men (MB, WT) (03:50) A Nymph: When I have often heard (CS) (02:29) Dance of the Haymakers (00:59) Solo with Chorus: A thousand, thousand ways (AC) (02:24) Third Act Tune: Hornpipe (01:00) #2: Purcell: The Fairy Queen CD2 (CD-Audio) Symphony (06:49) Attendant and Chorus: Now the night is chas d away (CS) (02:04) Two Other Attendants: Let the fife and the clarions (AC, RM) (01:28) Entry of Phoebus (00:41) Phoebus: When a cruel, long Winter (AC) (02:45) Chorus: Hail! Great Parent of us all (01:51) Spring: Thus the ever grateful Spring (CS) (02:03) Summer: Here s the Summer, sprightly, gay (WT) (01:24) Autumn: See my many colour d fields (AC) (03:05) Winter: Now Winter come slowly (MB) (02:32) Chorus: Hail! Great Parent of us all (01:04) Fourth Act Tune: Aire (01:04) Prelude (01:03) Epithalamium - Juno: Thrice happy lovers (RO) (02:43) The Plaint: O let me ever, ever weep (CS) (07:58) Entry Dance (01:33) Symphony (01:03) A Chinese Man: Thus the gloomy world (AC) (05:00) A Chinese Woman and Chorus: Thus happy and free (GK) (01:11) A Chinese Man: Yes, Daphne, in your looks I find (AC) (02:05) Monkeys’ Dance (00:56) First Chinese Woman: Hark, how all things (RO) (02:04) Second Chinese Woman and Chorus: Hark, the echoing air (CS) (02:36) wo Chinese Women and Chorus: Sure the dull God of Marriage (GK, RO) (03:10) Prelude (00:22) Hymen: See, I obey (MB) (02:04) Two Chinese Women: Turn then thine eyes (GK, RO) (00:45) Hymen: My torch indeed (MB) (01:01) Chaconne: Dance for a Chinese Man and Woman (02:34) Two Chinese Women and Hymen with Chorus: They shall be as happy (GK, RO, ME) (01:54)