2x CD

The Fairy Queen

Album by Henry Purcell; Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Bott, Thomas, Schopper

Released 3 March 1995

Tracklist

CD 1
1
The Fairy Queen: First Music: Prelude
Henry Purcell
2:04
2
The Fairy Queen: First Music: Hornpipe
Henry Purcell
0:56
3
The Fairy Queen: Second Music: Air
Henry Purcell
1:38
4
The Fairy Queen: Second Music: Rondeau
Henry Purcell
0:53
5
The Fairy Queen: Act I: Overture
Henry Purcell
1:24
6
The Fairy Queen: Act I: Come, let us leave the town
Henry Purcell
2:30
7
The Fairy Queen: Act I: Scene of the drunken poet
Henry Purcell
6:51
8
The Fairy Queen: Act I: First Act Tune: Jig
Henry Purcell
1:09
9
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Prelude
Henry Purcell
0:26
10
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Come ye songsters
Henry Purcell
2:39
11
The Fairy Queen: Act II: May the god of Wit
Henry Purcell
1:02
12
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Echo
Henry Purcell
1:22
13
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Now Join your warbling voices
Henry Purcell
0:27
14
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Sing while we trip it
Henry Purcell
2:24
15
The Fairy Queen: Act II: See, even night
Henry Purcell
4:58
16
The Fairy Queen: Act II: I am come to lock all fast
Henry Purcell
0:45
17
The Fairy Queen: Act II: One charming night
Henry Purcell
3:02
18
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Hush, no more
Henry Purcell
3:48
19
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Dance for the followers of night
Henry Purcell
1:40
20
The Fairy Queen: Act II: Second Tune
Henry Purcell
1:28
21
The Fairy Queen: Act III: If love's a sweet passion
Henry Purcell
4:09
22
The Fairy Queen: Act III: Symphony while the swans come forward
Henry Purcell
1:48
23
The Fairy Queen: Act III: Dance for the fairies
Henry Purcell
1:15
24
The Fairy Queen: Act III: Dance for the green man
Henry Purcell
1:44
25
The Fairy Queen: Act III: Ye gentle spirits of the air
Henry Purcell
5:27
26
The Fairy Queen: Act III: Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa
Henry Purcell
3:49
27
The Fairy Queen: Act III: Dance of the haymakers
Henry Purcell
0:55
28
The Fairy Queen: Act III: When I have often heard
Henry Purcell
3:11
29
The Fairy Queen: Act III: A thousand, thousand ways
Henry Purcell
2:01
30
The Fairy Queen: Act III: Third Act Tune
Henry Purcell
1:10
CD 2
1
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Symphony
Henry Purcell
5:56
2
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Now the night
Henry Purcell
4:20
3
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Let the fifes and the clarions
Henry Purcell
1:18
4
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Entry of Phoebus
Henry Purcell
0:32
5
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: When a cruel long winter
Henry Purcell
2:33
6
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Hail! Great parent
Henry Purcell
1:29
7
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Thus the ever grateful spring
Henry Purcell
2:29
8
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Here's the summer, sprightly, gay
Henry Purcell
1:50
9
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: See, see my many colour'd fields
Henry Purcell
2:23
10
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Next, Winter comes slowly
Henry Purcell
3:49
11
The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Fourth act tune
Henry Purcell
0:53
12
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Prelude
Henry Purcell
1:15
13
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Thrice happy Lovers (Epithalamium)
Henry Purcell
2:31
14
The Fairy Queen: Act V: The plaint
Henry Purcell
7:04
15
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Entry Dance
Henry Purcell
1:28
16
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Monkey's Dance
Henry Purcell
1:05
17
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Symphony
Henry Purcell
0:59
18
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Thus the gloomy world
Henry Purcell
5:06
19
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Thus happy and free
Henry Purcell
1:25
20
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Yes, Daphne
Henry Purcell
2:56
21
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Hark, how all things
Henry Purcell
2:21
22
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Hark! The ech'ing air
Henry Purcell
2:16
23
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Sure the dull God
Henry Purcell
1:44
24
The Fairy Queen: Act V: See I obey / Turn thine eyes / My torch indeed
Henry Purcell
5:18
25
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Dance for chinese men and women
Henry Purcell
2:52
26
The Fairy Queen: Act V: They shall be as happy
Henry Purcell
2:09