Purcell: The Fairy Queen

1. 1
   First Musick: Prelude
   1:51
2. 2
   First Musick: Hornpipe
   1:11
3. 3
   Second Musick: Air
   0:47
4. 4
   Second Musick: Rondeau
   1:43
5. 5
   Overture
   1:32
6. 6
   Act 1: Song in Two Parts: Come let us leave the town (LH/RW)
   2:39
7. 7
   Act 1: Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the bowl
   5:33
8. 8
   Act 1: First Act Tune: Jig
   1:04
9. 9
   Act 2: Song: Come all ye songsters of the sky (HC)
   2:03
10. 10
    Act 2: Prelude
    0:49
11. 11
    Act 2: Trio: May the God of Wit imspire (HC/MP/RW)
    0:46
12. 12
    Act 2: Echo (trumpet)
    1:02
13. 13
    Act 2: Chorus: Now join your Warbling Voices all (Chorus)
    0:34
14. 14
    Act 2: Song and Chorus & Fairies Dance: Sing while we trip it (CP/Chorus)
    2:21
15. 15
    Act 2: Song: See, even Night herself is here (SB)
    3:37
16. 16
    Act 2: Song: I am come to lock all fast (LH)
    0:49
17. 17
    Act 2: Song: One charming Night (MP)
    1:50
18. 18
    Act 2: Song and Chorus: Hush, no more (RW/Chorus)
    2:31
19. 19
    Act 2: Dance of the Followers of Night
    1:27
20. 20
    Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air
    1:16
21. 21
    Act 3: Song in Two Parts and Chorus: If Love's a Sweet Passion (CP/Chorus)
    2:04
22. 22
    Act 3: Overture: Symphony while the Swans come forward
    1:35
23. 23
    Act 3: Dance of the Fairies
    0:59
24. 24
    Act 3: Dance of the Green Men
    1:28
25. 25
    Act 3: Song: Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air (LH)
    4:54
26. 26
    Act 3: Coridon and Mopsa Dialogue: Now the maids and the men (MP/RW)
    3:20
27. 27
    Act 3: Dance of the Haymakers
    0:46
28. 28
    Act 3: Song: When I have often heard (CP)
    3:41
29. 29
    Act 3: Song and Chorus: A Thousand, Thousand ways (HC/RW/Chorus)
    2:36
30. 30
    Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
    1:13
31. 31
    Act 4: Symphony
    6:04
32. 32
    Act 4: Solo and Chorus: Now the Night is chased away (CP/Chorus)
    2:07
33. 33
    Act 4: Duet: Let the Fifes, and the Clarions (HC/MP)
    1:18
34. 34
    Act 4: Entry of Phoebus
    0:37
35. 35
    Act 4: Song: When a cruel long Winter (MP)
    2:59
36. 36
    Act 4: Chorus: Hail! Great Parent of us all (Chorus)
    1:53
37. 37
    Act 4: Song: Thus the ever Grateful Spring (LH)
    2:16
38. 38
    Act 4: Song: Here's the Summer (HC)
    1:32
39. 39
    Act 4: Song: See my many Colour'd Fields (MP)
    2:57
40. 40
    Act 4: Song: Next Winter comes Slowly (DWJ)
    2:17
41. 41
    Act 4: Chorus: Hail! Great Parent (Chorus) (reprise)
    1:02
42. 42
    Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air
    1:06
43. 43
    Act 5: Prelude
    1:24
44. 44
    Act 5: Epithalamium: Thrice happy Lovers (SB)
    2:47
45. 45
    Act 5: Song: The Plaint: O let me weep (LH)
    5:54
46. 46
    Act 5: Entry Dance
    1:32
47. 47
    Act 5: Symphony
    1:13
48. 48
    Act 5: Song: Thus the gloomy World (MP)
    4:13
49. 49
    Act 5: Solo and Chorus: Thus Happy and Free (CP/Chorus)
    0:43
50. 50
    Act 5: Song: Yes, Daphne (HC)
    2:14
51. 51
    Act 5: Monkeys' Dance
    1:21
52. 52
    Act 5: Song: Hark! how all things (SB)
    2:01
53. 53
    Act 5: Song and Chorus: Hark! now the Echoing air (LH/Chorus)
    2:20
54. 54
    Act 5: Solos and Chorus: Sure the dull God of Marriage (CP/SB/Chorus)
    2:09
55. 55
    Act 5: Prelude
    0:17
56. 56
    Act 5: Solo: See, see, I obey (DWJ)
    1:35
57. 57
    Act 5: Duet: Turn then thine eyes (CP/SB)
    1:26
58. 58
    Act 5: Solo: My Torch, indeed (DWJ)
    0:47
59. 59
    Act 5: Trio and Chorus: They shall be as happy as they're fair (CP/SB/DWJ/Chorus)
    2:18
60. 60
    Act 5: Chaconne: Dance of the Chinese Man and Woman
    3:07

A Warner Classics Release, © 2011 Parlophone Records Limited

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