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The Fairy Queen Henry Purcell; Scholars Baroque Ensemble

Release: Jan 1994 [Worldwide], Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD, Tracks: 59, Length: 2:8:45, Barcode: 0730099566025
Release type: Album

Contents

CD #1
1 The Fairy Queen: Overture 1:26
2 The Fairy Queen: Act I. "Come let us leave the Town" 2:02
3 The Fairy Queen: Act I. "Fill up the bowl then" 6:47
4 The Fairy Queen: Act I. First Act Tune. Jig 1:08
5 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Come all ye songsters of the Sky" 2:07
6 The Fairy Queen: Act II. Prelude 1:04
7 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "May the God of Wit inspire" 0:58
8 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Now join your Warbling Voices all" 0:30
9 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Sing while we trip it on the Green" 2:10
10 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "See, even Night her self is here" 4:50
11 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "I am come to lock all fast" 0:54
12 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "One charming Night" 2:14
13 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Hush, no more, be silent all" 5:09
14 The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Followers of Night 1:22
15 The Fairy Queen: Act III. "If love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?" 2:28
16 The Fairy Queen: Act III. Symphony While the Swans Come Forward 1:40
17 The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Fairies 0:51
18 The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Green Men 1:41
19 The Fairy Queen: Act III. "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear" 5:21
20 The Fairy Queen: Act III. "Now the Maids and the men are making of hay" 3:42
21 The Fairy Queen: Act III. Dance for the Haymakers 0:55
22 The Fairy Queen: Act III. "When I have often heard you Maids complaining" 3:12
23 The Fairy Queen: Act III. "A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find" 2:24
CD #2
1 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. Symphony 6:25
2 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Now the night is chas'd away" 2:02
3 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Let the Fifes, and the Clarions, and shrill trumpets sound" 1:28
4 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. Entry of Phoebus 0:38
5 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "When a cruel long Winter has frozen the earth" 2:50
6 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Hail! Great Parent of us all" 1:54
7 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Thus the ever Grateful Spring" 2:02
8 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay" 1:09
9 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "See my many Colour'd Fields" 2:36
10 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Next Winter comes Slowly, Pale, Meager, and Old" 2:39
11 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. "Hail! Great Parent of us all" 1:58
12 The Fairy Queen: Act V. Prelude 1:07
13 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thrice happy Lovers, may you be" 2:52
14 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "O Let me ever, ever weep" 7:04
15 The Fairy Queen: Act V. Symphony 0:50
16 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thus the gloomy World" 4:21
17 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thus Happy and Free" 1:03
18 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Yes, Xansi, in your Looks I find" 2:23
19 The Fairy Queen: Act V. Monkeys' Dance 0:54
20 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Hark! how all things in one Sound rejoice" 2:02
21 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Hark! how the Echoing Air a Triumph sings" 2:35
22 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Sure the dull God of Marriage does not hear" 2:56
23 The Fairy Queen: Act V. Prelude 0:19
24 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "See, see, I obey" 2:15
25 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Turn then the Eyes upon those Glories there" 1:31
26 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "My Torch, indeed, will from such Brightness shine" 1:05
27 The Fairy Queen: Act V. Chaconne. The Grand Dance 2:44
28 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "They shall be as happy as they're fair" 2:09
29 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. First Musick Prelude 1:50
30 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. First Musick Hornpipe 0:57
31 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Second Musick Air 0:56
32 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Second Musick Rondeau 1:27
33 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Second Act Tune. Air 1:17
34 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Fourth Act Tune. Air 0:58
35 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Third Act Tune. Hornpipe 0:59
36 The Fairy Queen: Appendix. Entry Dance 1:35

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