Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - The Fairy Queen (1993)
Cover Front Album
Composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Conductor David van Asch
Orchestra / Ensemble I The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
Length 128:23
Format CD
Genre Vocal; Semi-opera
Chorus I The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
Index 416
Out of Print No
Credits
Producer Murray Khouri
Label Naxos
Track List
The Fairy Queen - Henry Purcell 54:46
01 Overture 01:26
02 Act I: Duet "Come let us leave the town" 02:01
03 Act I: "Fill up the bowl then" 06:47
04 Act I: First Act Tune: Jig 01:08
05 Act II: "Come all ye songsters of the Sky" 02:06
06 Act II: Prelude 01:04
07 Act II: "May the God of Wit inspire" 00:58
08 Act II: "Now join your Warbling Voices all" 00:30
09 Act II: "Sing while we trip it on the Green" 02:09
10 Act II: "See, even Night her self is here" 04:49
11 Act II: "I am come to lock all fast" 00:54
12 Act II: "One charming Night" 02:14
13 Act II: "Hush, no more" 05:09
14 Act II: Dance for the followers of Night 01:21
15 Act III: "If love's a Sweet Passion" 02:27
16 Act III: Symphony while the swans come forward 01:40
17 Act III: Dance for the Fairies 00:51
18 Act III: Dance for the Green Men 01:40
19 Act III: "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air" 05:21
20 Act III: "Now the Maids and the men" 03:41
21 Act III: Dance for the haymakers 00:55
22 Act III: "When I have often heard you" 03:12
23 Act III: "A Thousand Thousand ways" 02:23
The Fairy Queen 73:37
01 Act IV: Symphony 06:24
02 Act IV: "Now the night is chased away" 02:02
03 Act IV: "Let the Fifes, and the Clarions, and shrill trumpets sound" 01:28
04 Act IV: Entry of Phoebus 00:38
05 Act IV: "When a cruel long Winter" 02:50
06 Act IV: "Hail! Great Parent of us all" 01:53
07 Act IV: "Thus the ever Grateful Spring" 02:01
08 Act IV: "Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay" 01:09
09 Act IV: "See my many Colour'd Fields" 02:36
10 Act IV: "Next Winter come Slowly" 02:38
11 Act IV: "Hail! Great Parent of us all" 01:57
12 Act V: Prelude 01:07
13 Act V: "Thirce happy Lovers" 02:51
14 Act V: "O Let me ever, ever weep" 07:04
15 Act V: Symphony 00:50
16 Act V: "Thus the gloomy World" 04:21
17 Act V: "Thus Happy and Free" 01:02
18 Act V: "Yes, Xansi, in your Looks I find" 02:22
19 Act V: Monkeys' Dance 00:54
20 Act V: "Hark! how all things in one Sound rejoice" 02:02
21 Act V: "Hark! how the Echoing Air a Triumph sings" 02:35
22 Act V: "Sure the dull God of Marraige does not hear" 02:56
23 Act V: Prelude 00:19
24 Act V: "See, see, I obey" 02:14
25 Act V: "Turn then the Eyes" 01:31
26 Act V: "My Torch, indeed" 01:04
27 Act V: Chaconne - The Grand Dance 02:44
28 Act V: "They shall be as happy as they're fair" 02:08
29 Appendix: First Musick Prelude 01:49
30 Appendix: First Musick Hornpipe 00:57
31 Appendix: Second Musick Air 00:56
32 Appendix: Second Musick Rondeau 01:27
33 Appendix: Second Act Tune (Air) 01:17
34 Appendix: Fourth Act Tune (Air) 00:57
35 Appendix: Third Act Tune (Hornpipe) 00:59
36 Appendix: Entry Dance 01:35
Personal
Purchase Date 10/21/1998
Value $17.50
Store Media Play, Gainesville
Condition 100%
Nationality English
Language English
Period Baroque
Details
Studio St. Silas' Church, London
Catalog Number 8.550660-1
Live No
Recording Date 11/18/1992
Spars DDD
Reissue No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Notes, text and translation

Essay: Keith Anderson
Essay: "About this Recording" by David van Asch