Composer: Henry Purcell
Performer: Eiddwen Harrhy, Timothy Penrose, Wynford Evans, Stephen Varcoe
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Archiv
Release: 1982
Size: 575 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
CD 01
Act 1
01. Prelude (I)
02. Hornpipe
03. Air
04. Rondeau
05. Overture
06. Song In Two Parts: “Come, come, come, let us leave”
07. Scene Of The Drunken Poet: “Fill up the Bowl”
08. First Act Tune: Jig
Act 2
09. Prelude…Come, All Ye Songsters Of The Sky
10. Prelude (II)
11. Trio: “May the God of Wit inspire”
12. Echo
13. Chorus: “Now Joyn your Warbling Voices all”
14. A Dance Of Fairies
15. Song And Chorus: “Sing while we trip it on the Green”
16. “See, even Night herself is here”
17. “I am come to lock all fast”
18. “One charming night”
19. “Hush, no more”
20. Dance For The Followers Of Night
21. Second Act Tune: Air
Act 3
22. A Song In Two Parts And Chorus: “If Love’s a Sweet Passion”
23. Overture: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward
24. Dance For The Fairies
25. Dance For The Green Men
26. Song: “Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear”
27. Dialog: “Now the Maids and the Men”
28. Song: “When I have often heard”
29. A Dance Of Haymakers
30. Song And Chorus: “A Thousand Thousand ways we’ll find”
31. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
CD 02
Act 4
01. Symphony
02. Solo & Chorus “Now the night”
03. Duet: “Let the fifes, and the Clarions”
04. Entry Of Phoebus
05. Song: “When a cruel long Winter”- Chorus: “Hail! Great Parent of us all”
06. Song: “Thus the ever Grateful Spring”
07. Song: “Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay”
08. Song: “See my many Colour’d Fields”
09. Song And Chorus: “Now Winter comes Slowly”
10. Fourth Act Tune: Air
Act 5
11. Prelude (I)
12. Epithalamium – Thrice Happy Lovers
13. The Plaint
14. Entry Dance
15. Symphony
16. Thus The Gloomy World
17. Thus Happy And Free
18. Song: “Yes, Daphne, in your Looks I find”
19. Monkey’s Dance
20. Hark! How All Things
21. Hark! The Ech’ing Air
22. Sure The Dull God
23. Prelude (II)
24. Solo: “See, see, I obey”
25. Duet: “Turn then thine Eyes”
26. Solo: “My Torch, indeed”
27. Trio: “They shall be as happy”
28. Air
29. Chorus: “They shall be as happy”
30. Chaconne: Dance For Chinese Man And Woman