Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Dido and Aeneas - CD

CD: 1

Henry Purcell

The Fairy Queen, Z.629

 

1. Symphony

06:53

 

2. Now the night is chas'd away

02:42

 

3. Let the fifes and the clarions....Dance

02:05

 

4. When a cruel long winter

02:50

 

5. Hail! great parent of us all

02:16

 

6. Thus the ever grateful Spring

02:48

 

7. Here's the Summer, sprightly gay

01:14

 

8. See, my many-coloured fields

03:01

 

9. Next, Winter comes slowly, pale

02:58

 

10. Hail! great parent of us all

02:18

 

11. Prelude...Come, all ye songsters of the sky

02:32

 

12. The songsters...May the god of wit inspire

01:57

 

13. Echo...Now join your warbling voices all

02:14

 

14. Fill up the bowl

06:37

 

15. See, even Night herself is here

05:24

 

16. I am come to lock all fast

00:42

 

17. One charming night

02:15

 

18. No.17 "Hush, no more"

04:04

 

19. No.18 Dance for the followers of night

01:27

 

20. Overture

01:44

 

21. If love's a sweet passion...I press her hand

02:40

 

22. O let me weep, for ever weep

07:50

 

23. Now the maids and the men are making of hay

03:43

 

24. A Dance of Haymakers

00:55

 

25. A thousand, thousand ways

03:06

 

26. Hornpipe and rondeau

02:33

CD: 2

Henry Purcell

The Fairy Queen, Z.629

 

1. Symphony

01:28

 

2. Hark! Hark the echoing air

02:29

 

3. Sure the dull God of Marriage

02:25

 

4. See, I obey

01:50

 

5. Turn then thine eyes

01:10

 

6. My torch indeed...They shall be as happy

02:57

 

7. Chaconne

03:33

 

8. They shall be as happy

00:55

Dido and Aeneas, Z.626

 

9. Overture

02:17

 

10. Shake the cloud from off your brow

01:09

 

11. Ah! Belinda, I am prest

05:15

 

12. Whence could so much virtue spring?

02:06

 

13. Fear no danger to ensue

01:36

 

14. See your royal guest appears

05:13

 

15. Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward Sisters"

03:19

 

16. Ruin'd ere the set of sun?

05:28

 

17. Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome dales"

03:44

 

18. Oft she visits this lov'd mountain

02:29

 

19. Behold, upon my bending spear

01:20

 

20. Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command

06:05

 

21. Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"

02:17

 

22. See the flags and streamers curling

03:19

 

23. Your counsel all is urg'd in vain

03:40

 

24. But death, alas! ...When I am laid in earth

06:29

 

25. With drooping wings ye cupids come

04:59