The Fairy Queen - Purcell; Vyvyan, Bowman, Pears, Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

The Fairy Queen

Album by Purcell; Vyvyan, Bowman, Pears, Shirley‐Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Released 1992

Tracklist

CD 1
1
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Symphony
Henry Purcell
6:50
2
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Now the night is chas'd away (Attendant)
Henry Purcell
2:41
3
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Let the fifes and the clarions (Attendants): Dance
Henry Purcell
2:07
4
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: When a cruel long winter (Phoebus)
Henry Purcell
2:47
5
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Hail! great parent (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
2:17
6
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Thus the ever grateful Spring (Spring)
Henry Purcell
2:47
7
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay (Summer)
Henry Purcell
1:14
8
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: See, my many-coloured fields (Autumn)
Henry Purcell
3:04
9
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Next, Winter comes slowly (Winter)
Henry Purcell
2:55
10
The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Hail! great parent (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
2:23
11
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: Prelude: Come all ye youngsters of the sky (Fairy-Spirit)
Henry Purcell
2:31
12
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: The Songsters: May the God of Wit inspire (Fairy-Spirits)
Henry Purcell
1:57
13
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: Echo: Now join your warbling voices all (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
2:15
14
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: Fill up the bowl, then (The Poet)
Henry Purcell
6:37
15
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: See, even Night herself is here (Night)
Henry Purcell
5:21
16
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: I am come to look all fast (Mystery)
Henry Purcell
0:43
17
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: One charming might (Secrecy)
Henry Purcell
2:15
18
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: Hush, no more (Sleep)
Henry Purcell
4:04
19
The Fairy Queen: Part II. Night and Silence: Dance
Henry Purcell
1:29
CD 2
1
The Fairy Queen: Part III. The Sweet Passion: Overture
Henry Purcell
1:44
2
The Fairy Queen: Part III. The Sweet Passion:
Henry Purcell
2:43
3
The Fairy Queen: Part III. The Sweet Passion: The Plaint: O let me weep, for ever weep!
Henry Purcell
7:51
4
The Fairy Queen: Part III. The Sweet Passion: Now the maids ans the man
Henry Purcell
3:42
5
The Fairy Queen: Part III. The Sweet Passion: A Dance of Haymakers
Henry Purcell
0:55
6
The Fairy Queen: Part III. The Sweet Passion: A thousand, thousand ways
Henry Purcell
3:06
7
The Fairy Queen: Part III. The Sweet Passion: Hornpipe & Rondeau
Henry Purcell
2:32
8
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Symphony
Henry Purcell
1:24
9
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Hark! hark! the echoing air
Henry Purcell
2:29
10
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Sure the dull God of Marriage
Henry Purcell
2:26
11
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: See, I obey
Henry Purcell
1:49
12
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Turn then thine eyes
Henry Purcell
1:09
13
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: My torch indeed... They shall be as happy
Henry Purcell
2:57
14
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Chaconne
Henry Purcell
3:33
15
The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: They shall be as happy
Henry Purcell
0:53