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The Fairy Queen Z 629

Text: William Shakespeare
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Eiddwen Harrhy (Soprano), Stephen Varcoe (Bass), Judith Nelson (Soprano), Elisabeth Priday (Soprano), David Thomas (Bass), Wynford Evans (Tenor), Martyn Hill (Tenor), Jennifer Smith (Soprano), Timothy Nicholas Penrose (Countertenor), Ashley Stafford (Countertenor)
1981, Göttingen
Live
61 Tracks, 2:16:37

  • Curtain Music and Overture

    • 1. Prelude
      01:58
    • 2. Hornpipe
      00:55
    • 3. Air
      00:48
    • 4. Rondeau
      01:29
    • 5. Overture
      02:03

  • Act I

    • 1. "Come, come, come, let us leave"
      02:24
    • 2. "Fill up the Bowl"
      06:40
    • 3. Jig
      01:11

  • Act II

    • 1. Prelude..."Come, All Ye Songsters of the Sky"
      01:53
    • 2. Prelude
      00:50
    • 3. "May the God of Wit inspire"
      01:05
    • 4. Echo
      01:33
    • 5. "Now Joyn your Warbling Voices all"
      00:28
    • 6. A Dance of Fairies
      00:44
    • 7. "Sing while we trip it on the Green"
      01:43
    • 8. "See, even Night herself is here"
      04:17
    • 9. "I am come to lock all fast"
      01:11
    • 10. "One charming night"
      01:58
    • 11. "Hush, no more"
      03:19
    • 12. Dance for the Followers of Night
      01:51
    • 13. Air
      01:21

  • Act III

    • 1. "If Love's a Sweet Passion"
      08:02
    • 2. Symphony While the Swans Come Forward
      02:04
    • 3. Dance for the Fairies
      00:50
    • 4. Dance for the Green Men
      01:28
    • 5. "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear"
      05:05
    • 6. "Now the Maids and the Men"
      03:55
    • 7. "When I have often heard"
      03:13
    • 8. A Dance Of Haymakers
      00:57
    • 9. "A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find"
      02:08
    • 10. Hornpipe
      00:58

  • Act IV

    • 1. Symphony
      06:12
    • 2. "Now the night"
      02:07
    • 3. "Let the fifes, and the Clarions"
      01:57
    • 4. Entry of Phoebus
      00:34
    • 5. "Hail! Great Parent of us all"
      04:19
    • 6. "Thus the ever Grateful Spring"
      01:57
    • 7. "Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay"
      01:39
    • 8. "See my many Colour'd Fields"
      03:03
    • 9. "Now Winter comes Slowly"
      03:22
    • 10. Air
      00:55

  • Act V

    • 1. Prelude
      01:07
    • 2. Epithalamium – Thrice Happy Lovers
      02:39
    • 3. The Plaint
      07:41
    • 4. Entry Dance
      01:09
    • 5. Symphony
      01:12
    • 6. "Thus the Gloomy World"
      05:44
    • 7. "Thus Happy and Free"
      01:37
    • 8. "Yes, Daphne, in your Looks I find"
      01:53
    • 9. Monkey's Dance
      01:03
    • 10. "Hark! How All Things"
      02:07
    • 11. "Hark! The Ech'ing Air"
      02:51
    • 12. "Sure the Dull God"
      02:06
    • 13. Prelude
      00:31
    • 14. "See, see, I obey"
      01:58
    • 15. "Turn then thine Eyes"
      01:25
    • 16. "My Torch, indeed"
      00:44
    • 17. "They shall be as happy"
      01:10
    • 18. Air
      01:30
    • 19. "They shall be as happy"
      01:10
    • 20. Dance For Chinese Man And Woman
      02:34