The Fairy Queen

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  First Musick: Prelude
  1:50
• 2
  First Musick: Hornpipe
  0:54
• 3
  Second Musick: Air
  0:52
• 4
  Second Musick: Rondeau
  1:36
• 5
  Second Musick: Overture
  1:25
• 6
  Act 1: Duet: Come let us leave the town
  2:55
• 7
  Act 1: Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the bowl
  6:12
• 8
  Act 1: First Act Tune: Jig
  1:13
• 9
  Act 2: Prelude: Come all ye songsters of the sky
  2:03
• 10
  Act 2: Prelude, Choral Trio: May the God of Wit inspire
  4:16
• 11
  Act 2: Chorus: Now join your warbling voices all
  0:29
• 12
  Act 2: Soprano Solo: Sing while we trip it
  2:06
• 13
  Act 2: Night: See, even Night herself is here
  4:38
• 14
  Act 2: Mystery: I am come to lock all fast
  1:11
• 15
  Act 2: Secrecy: One charming night
  2:25
• 16
  Act 2: Sleep, Chorus: Hush, no more
  4:03
• 17
  Act 2: Dance for the Followers of Night
  1:15
• 18
  Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air
  1:15
• 19
  Act 3: Soprano Solo, Chorus: If love's a sweet passion
  4:26
• 20
  Act 3: Symphony while the swans come forward
  1:48
• 21
  Act 3: Dance for the Fairies
  0:52
• 22
  Act 3: Dance for the Green Men
  1:39
• 23
  Act 3: Soprano Solo: Ye gentle spirits of the air
  5:24
• 24
  Act 3: Dialogue Between Coridon and Mopsa: Now the maids and the men
  3:49
• 25
  Act 3: Dance for the Haymakers
  0:54
• 26
  Act 3: A Nymph: When I have often heard
  3:08
• 27
  Act 3: Duet, Chorus: A thousand, thousand ways
  2:39
• 28
  Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
  1:00
• CD 2
• 1
  Act 4: Symphony
  6:17
• 2
  Act 4: An Attendant, Chorus: Now the night is chased away
  2:02
• 3
  Act 4: Duet: Let the fifes and the clarions
  1:24
• 4
  Act 4: Entry of Phoebus
  0:36
• 5
  Act 4: Phoebus: When a cruel long winter
  2:42
• 6
  Act 4: Chorus: Hail! Great parent of us all
  1:56
• 7
  Act 4: Spring: Thus the ever grateful spring
  2:19
• 8
  Act 4: Summer: Here's the summer, sprightly, gay
  1:44
• 9
  Act 4: Autumn: See my many coloured fields
  2:22
• 10
  Act 4: Winter: Next winter comes slowly
  2:26
• 11
  Act 4: Hail! Great Parent of us all
  1:01
• 12
  Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air
  1:09
• 13
  Act 5: Prelude
  1:09
• 14
  Act 5: Juno: Thrice happy lovers
  2:48
• 15
  Act 5: The Plaint: O let me ever, ever weep
  7:07
• 16
  Act 5: Entry Dance
  1:16
• 17
  Act 5: Symphony
  1:15
• 18
  Act 5: A Chinese Man: Thus the gloomy world
  4:35
• 19
  Act 5: A Chinese Woman, Chorus: Thus happy and free
  1:29
• 20
  Act 5: A Chinese Man: Yes, Xansi
  2:17
• 21
  Act 5: Monkey's Dance
  0:48
• 22
  Act 5: A Chinese Woman: Hark! now all things
  2:08
• 23
  Act 5: A Chinese Woman: Hark! The echoing air
  2:43
• 24
  Act 5: Two Chinese Women: Sure the dull God of Marriage
  2:33
• 25
  Act 5: Prelude
  0:32
• 26
  Act 5: Hymen: See, see I obey
  4:11
• 27
  Act 5: Two Chinese Women, Hymen: They shall be as happy as they're fair
  1:02
• 28
  Act 5: Chaconne: Dance for the Chinese man and woman
  2:43
• 29
  Act 5: Chorus: They shall be as happy as they're fair
  1:17

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Release credits

• Harry Christophers
  conductor
• The Sixteen
  performing orchestra

Issues

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  The Fairy Queen

  2x CD
  23 August 1993