The Fairy Queen / Dido and Aeneas (English Chamber Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Strings)

Album by Henry Purcell

Released 2001

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CD 1
1
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": Symphony
6:53
2
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Now the night is chas'd away"
2:42
3
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Let the fifes and the clarions...Dance"
2:05
4
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "When a cruel long Winter"
2:50
5
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Hail! great parent of us all"
2:16
6
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Thus the ever grateful Spring"
2:48
7
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Here's the Summer, springly, gay"
1:14
8
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "See, my many-coloured fields"
3:01
9
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Next, Winter comes slowly"
2:58
10
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part I "Oberon's birthday": "Hail! great parent of us all"
2:22
11
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": Prelude - "Come, all ye songsters of the sky"
2:32
12
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "The Songsters... May the god of wit inspire"
1:57
13
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Echo... Now join your warbling voices all"
2:14
14
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Fill up the bowl, then"
6:37
15
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "See, even Night herself is here"
5:24
16
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "I am come to lock all fast"
0:42
17
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "One charming night"
2:15
18
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Hush, no more"
4:04
19
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part II "Night and silence": "Dance for the followers of night"
1:32
20
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": Overture
1:44
21
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "If love's a sweet passion"
2:40
22
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "The Plaint: O let me weep, for ever weep!"
7:50
23
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "Now the maids and the men are making of hay"
3:43
24
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "A dance of haymakers"
0:55
25
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "A thousand, thousand ways"
3:06
26
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part III "The sweet passion": "Hornpipe and rondeau"
2:33
CD 2
1
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": Symphony
1:28
2
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Hark! hark! the echoing air"
2:29
3
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Sure the dull God of Marriage"
2:25
4
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "See, I obey"
1:50
5
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Turn then thine eyes"
1:10
6
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "My torch indeed... They shall be as happy"
2:57
7
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "Chaconne"
3:33
8
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Part IV "Epithalamium": "They shall be as happy"
1:05
9
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. Overture
2:17
10
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Shake the cloud from off your brow"
1:09
11
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"
5:15
12
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Whence could so much virtue spring?"
2:06
13
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Fear no danger to ensue"
1:36
14
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "See, your royal guest appears"
5:13
15
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward sisters"
3:19
16
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Ruin'd ere the set of sun"
5:28
17
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome dales"
3:44
18
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Oft she visits this lov'd mountain"
2:29
19
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Behold, upon my bending spear"
1:20
20
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command"
6:05
21
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
2:17
22
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "See the flags and streamers curling"
3:19
23
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain"
3:40
24
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "But Death, alas! ... When I am laid in earth"
6:29
25
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "With drooping wings ye Cupids come"
4:59