Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen

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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/26/2009
  • Label: Warner Classics Uk
  • UPC: 825646869817
  • Catalog Number: 4686981
  • Sales rank: 138,871

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Disc 1
  1. 1–34 The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629 - Robert Holl & Henry Purcell (119:13)
    Composed byHenry Purcell, Henry Purcell
    Conducted byNikolaus Harnoncourt
    Performed byRobert Holl, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Barbara Bonney, Michael Chance, Concentus Musicus Wien, Laurence Dale, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Elisabeth von Magnus, Sylvia McNair, Anthony Michaels-Moore
    1. 1Prelude. Hornpipe
    2. 2Air. Rondeau
    3. 3Act 1. Overture
    4. 4Act 1. Duet. Come, let us leave the town
    5. 5Act 1. Scene of the Drunken Poet
    6. 6Act 1. First Act Tune. Jig
    7. 7Act 2. Song. Come all ye songsters of the sky
    8. 8Act 2. Trio. May the God of Wit inspire
    9. 9Act 2. Chorus. Now join your warbling voices all
    10. 10Act 2. Song - Chorus. Sing while we trip it
    11. 11Act 2. Dance of Fairies / Song. See, even Night herself is here / Song. I am come to lock all fast
    12. 12Act 2. Second Act Tune. Air
    13. 13Act 3. Song - Chorus. If love's a sweet passion
    14. 14Act 3. Symphony while the swans come forward
    15. 15Act 3. Dance for the Fairies
    16. 16Act 3. Dance for the Green Men
    17. 17Act 3. Song. Ye gentle spirits of the air
    18. 18Act 3. Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa. Now the maids and the men / Dance for the Haymakers
    19. 19Act 2. Song. When I have often heard
    20. 20Act 2. Song - Chorus. A thousand, thousand ways
    21. 21Act 2. Third Act Tune. Hornpipe
    22. 22Act 4. Symphony
    23. 23Act 4. Solo - Chorus. Now the night is chased away
    24. 24Act 4. Duet. Let the fifes and the clarions
    25. 25Act 4. Entry of Phoebus / Song. When a cruel long winter
    26. 26Act 4. Chorus. Hail! Great parent of us all / Song. Thus the ever grateful Spring / Song. Here's th
    27. 27Act 5. Prelude - Epithalamium. Thrice happy lovers
    28. 28Act 5. The Plaint. O let me ever, ever weep
    29. 29Act 5. Entry Dance - Symphony / Song. Thus the gloomy world / Solo - Chorus. Thus happy and free /
    30. 30Act 5. Monkeys' Dance
    31. 31Act 5. Song. Hark! How all things / Song. Hark! the echoing air
    32. 32Act 5. Soli and Chorus. Sure the dull God of Marriage / Prelude / Solo. See, I obey / Duet. Turn th
    33. 33Act 5. Chaconne
    34. 34Act 5. Trio - Chorus. They shall be as happy as they're fair
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt Primary Artist
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