Edition I: Dido and Aeneas / King Arthur / The Fairy Queen

Tracklist

• 1
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Overture

  Henry Purcell
  1:53
• 2
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Shake the cloud from off your brow" [Belinda, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:03
• 3
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Ah Belinda, I am press'd with torment" [Dido]

  Henry Purcell
  3:38
• 4
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Grief increases by concealing" [Belinda, Dido] "When monarchs unite, how happy their state" [Chor

  Henry Purcell
  0:42
• 5
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Whence could so much virtue spring?" [Dido, Belinda]

  Henry Purcell
  1:54
• 6
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Fear no danger to ensue" [Belinda, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:33
• 7
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "See our royal guest appears" [Belinda, Aeneas] "Cupid only throws the dart" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:10
• 8
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "If not for mine, for Empire's sake" [Aeneas] "Pursue thy conquest, Love" [Belinda] "To the hills

  Henry Purcell
  2:14
• 9
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "The Triumphing Dance"

  Henry Purcell
  1:09
• 10
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 Prelude for the Witches "Wayward sisters, you that fright" [Sorceress] "Harm's our delight" [Choru

  Henry Purcell
  2:14
• 11
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "The Queen of Carthage" ... "Ho! ho! ho!" [Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:53
• 12
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "But ere we this perform" [First Witch, Second Witch]

  Henry Purcell
  1:10
• 13
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 1 "In our deep vaulted cell... Echo Dance of Furies" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:22
• 14
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Ritornelle" "Thanks to these lonesome vales" [Belinda, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  3:36
• 15
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Oft she visits this lone mountain" [Second Woman]

  Henry Purcell
  1:56
• 16
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Behold upon my bending spear" [Aeneas, Dido] "Haste, haste to town" [Belinda, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:13
• 17
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Stay Prince" [Spirit, Aeneas]

  Henry Purcell
  2:04
• 18
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Then since our chorus have sped" [Chorus] "The Grove's Dance"

  Henry Purcell
  1:24
• 19
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Come away" [Sailor, Chorus] "The Sailors' Dance"

  Henry Purcell
  2:23
• 20
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "See, see the flags" [Sorceress, First Witch] "Our next motion" [Sorceress]

  Henry Purcell
  1:41
• 21
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Destruction's our delight" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  0:31
• 22
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "The Witches' Dance"

  Henry Purcell
  1:35
• 23
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Your counsel all is urged in vain" [Dido, Belinda, Aeneas]

  Henry Purcell
  3:35
• 24
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Great minds against themselves conspire" [Chorus] "Thy hand, Belinda" [Dido]

  Henry Purcell
  2:02
• 25
  Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, Act 3: "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  3:54
• 26
  Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "With drooping wings" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:42
• 27
  Purcell : King Arthur : Overture to Act 1

  Henry Purcell
  1:58
• 28
  Purcell : King Arthur : Air

  Henry Purcell
  1:31
• 29
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "Woden, first to thee" [Bass, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:49
• 30
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "The white horse neigh'd aloud" [Bass, Tenor, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:22
• 31
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "The lot is cast, and Tanfan pleas'd" [Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  0:32
• 32
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "Brave souls, to be renown'd in story" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:46
• 33
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "I call you all to Woden's Hall" [Tenor, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:05
• 34
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "Come if you dare" [Tenor, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  4:10
• 35
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Hither, this way, this way bend" [Soprano, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:11
• 36
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Let not a moonborn elf mislead ye" [Bass] "Hither this way, this way bend" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:53
• 37
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Come, follow me" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:22
• 38
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "How blest are shepherds" [Tenor, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  5:17
• 39
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying" [Sopranos]

  Henry Purcell
  1:55
• 40
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Come, shepherds, lead up a lively measure" [Chorus] Hornpipe

  Henry Purcell
  1:38
• 41
  Purcell : King Arthur : Air

  Henry Purcell
  1:01
• 42
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 Prelude (Reprise)

  Henry Purcell
  0:31
• 43
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "What ho! thou genius of this isle" [Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  0:59
• 44
  Purcell: King Arthur, Act 3: "What power art thou" [Bass]

  Henry Purcell
  4:08
• 45
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Thou doting fool" [Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  0:37
• 46
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Great love, I know thee now" [Bass]

  Henry Purcell
  0:55
• 47
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "No part of my dominion" [Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  0:56
• 48
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 Prelude

  Henry Purcell
  0:44
• 49
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "See, see, we assemble" [Chorus] Dance

  Henry Purcell
  1:28
• 50
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Tis I that have warm'd ye" [Soprano] "Tis love that has warm'd us" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:59
• 51
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Sound a parley" [Soprano, Bass] "Tis Love that has warm'd us" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  4:00
• 52
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 Hornpipe

  Henry Purcell
  0:46
• 53
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 4 "Two daughters of this aged stream are we" [Sopranos]

  Henry Purcell
  2:32
• 54
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 4 "How happy the lover" [Tenor, Chorus] Ritornello "For love every creature" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus] "

  Henry Purcell
  7:11
• 55
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 4 Air

  Henry Purcell
  0:41
• 56
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Trumpet Tune

  Henry Purcell
  0:46
• 57
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies" [Bass]

  Henry Purcell
  3:23
• 58
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Symphony

  Henry Purcell
  1:42
• 59
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Round thy coast" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  3:20
• 60
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "For folded flocks, and fruitful plains" [Tenors, Bass]

  Henry Purcell
  2:00
• 61
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Your hay it is mow'd" [Bass, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:27
• 62
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Fairest Isle" [Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  4:43
• 63
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "You say 'tis Love" [Soprano, Bass]

  Henry Purcell
  5:26
• 64
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Trumpet Tune - Warlike Consort

  Henry Purcell
  0:37
• 65
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Saint George" [Soprano, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:05
• 66
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Our natives not alone appear" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:06
• 67
  Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Chaconne

  Henry Purcell
  3:30
• 68
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Prelude to Act 1

  Henry Purcell
  2:41
• 69
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Air

  Henry Purcell
  2:11
• 70
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Overture to Act 1

  Henry Purcell
  1:28
• 71
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Come, let us leave the town" [Soprano, Bass]

  Henry Purcell
  1:14
• 72
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Scene of the Drunken Poet" [First Fairy, Second Fairy, Drunken Poet, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  6:06
• 73
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 1 Jig

  Henry Purcell
  1:23
• 74
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Come all ye songsters of the sky" [Tenor]

  Henry Purcell
  2:13
• 75
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "May the God of Wit inspire" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass]

  Henry Purcell
  2:47
• 76
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Now join your warbling voices all" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  0:36
• 77
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Sing while we trip it" [Chorus, Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  3:57
• 78
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "See, even Night herself is here" [Night] "I am come to lock all fast" [Mystery] "One charming n

  Henry Purcell
  11:35
• 79
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 Air

  Henry Purcell
  2:18
• 80
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "If love's a sweet passion" [Dryad, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  1:55
• 81
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Symphony while the swans come forward

  Henry Purcell
  0:56
• 82
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Dance for the Fairies

  Henry Purcell
  1:23
• 83
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Dance for the Green Men

  Henry Purcell
  1:17
• 84
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "Ye gentle spirits of the air" [Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  4:47
• 85
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "Now the maids and the men" [Coridon, Mopsa] Dance for the Haymakers

  Henry Purcell
  4:38
• 86
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "When I have often heard" [Nymph]

  Henry Purcell
  2:10
• 87
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "A thousand, thousand ways" [Chorus, Counter-Tenor]

  Henry Purcell
  2:31
• 88
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Hornpipe

  Henry Purcell
  1:02
• 89
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 Symphony

  Henry Purcell
  6:04
• 90
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Now the night is chased away" [Attendant, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:08
• 91
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Let the fifes and the clarions" [Tenor, Counter-Tenor]

  Henry Purcell
  1:14
• 92
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "When a cruel long winter" [Phoebus]

  Henry Purcell
  3:32
• 93
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Hail! Great parent of us all" [Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  10:43
• 94
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Thrice happy lovers" [Juno]

  Henry Purcell
  3:49
• 95
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "O let me ever, ever weep" [Soprano]

  Henry Purcell
  7:55
• 96
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Thus the gloomy world" [Chinese Man] "Thus happy and free" [Chinese Woman, Chorus] "Yes, Daphne

  Henry Purcell
  9:27
• 97
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 Monkey's Dance

  Henry Purcell
  0:49
• 98
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Hark! How all things" [First Woman] "Hark! the echoing air" [Second Woman, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  4:27
• 99
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Sure the dull God of Marriage" [First Woman, Second Woman, Chorus] Prelude "See, I obey" [Hymen

  Henry Purcell
  5:21
• 100
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 Chaconne

  Henry Purcell
  2:41
• 101
  Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "They shall be as happy as they're fair" [First Woman, Second Woman, Hymen, Chorus]

  Henry Purcell
  2:01

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Release credits

• Anne Pichard
  choir vocals [54]
• Carys Lloyd Roberts
  choir vocals [37, 54]
• Claire Brua
  mezzo-soprano vocals [10-11, 20]
• Claron McFadden
  soprano vocals [35, 37, 53, 65]
• David Le Monnier
  choir vocals [54]
• Etienne Bazola
  bass vocals [59]
• François Bazola
  choir vocals [37]
• Gaëlle Méchaly
  soprano vocals [11-12, 20]
• Iain Paton
  tenor vocals [34, 38, 60]
• Jean Chatauret
  sound [27-67]
• Jean-Marie Puissant
  choir vocals [37, 54]
• Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
  tenor vocals [17, 19]
• Jean-Yves Ravoux
  choir vocals [37]
• Jonathan Best
  bass vocals [36, 60, 63], choir vocals [54]
• Les Arts Florissants
  choir vocals [2, 4, 6-8, 10-11, 13-14, 16, 18-19, 21, 24, 29-30, 32-34, 50-51, 54, 59, 61, 66], performing orchestra [1-25, 27-67]
• Luthea Salom
  bass vocals [29-30]
• Mark Padmore
  tenor vocals [29-30, 33, 54, 60]
• Mhairi Lawson
  choir vocals [37, 54]
• Nathan Berg
  bass-baritone vocals [7-8, 16-17, 23]
• Nicholas Parker
  producer [27-67]
• Petteri Salomaa
  bass vocals [44, 46, 51, 57, 61]
• Richard Duguay
  choir vocals [37, 54]
• Sandrine Piau
  soprano vocals [39, 53, 63]
• Sheena Wolstencroft
  choir vocals [54]
• Sophie Daneman
  soprano vocals [11-12, 15, 20]
• Sophie Marin-Degor
  soprano vocals [2, 4-8, 14, 16, 23]
• Susannah Waters
  soprano vocals [43, 45, 47, 50-51, 59]
• Valérie Picard
  choir vocals [54]
• Violaine Lucas
  choir vocals [37, 54]
• Véronique Gens
  choir vocals [54], soprano vocals [3-5, 16, 23-25, 31, 39, 62]
• William Christie
  conductor [1-25, 27-67]
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Issues

• E
  (Combined release view)
• 

  E
  Edition I: Dido and Aeneas / King Arthur / The Fairy Queen

  4x CD
  9 March 2009
• P
  Purcell Edition Volume 1 : Dido & Aeneas, King Arthur & The Fairy Queen

  Digital Media
  10 November 2009