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The Fairy Queen Z 629

Text: William Shakespeare
Sir Roger Norrington, London Classical Players, Schütz Choir of London, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Soprano), Catherine Piérard (Soprano), Susan Bickley (Mezzo Soprano), Howard Crook (Tenor), Mark Padmore (Tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (Bass-baritone), Richard Wistreich (Bass)
1993, London
60 Tracks, 2:02:01

  • Curtain Music and Overture

    • 1. Prelude
      01:52
    • 2. Hornpipe
      01:12
    • 3. Air
      00:47
    • 4. Rondeau
      01:43
    • 5. Overture
      01:33

  • Act I

    • 1. Come let us leave the town (Two Fairies)
      02:39
    • 2. Fill up the bowl (Drunken Poet, Fairies)
      05:33
    • 3. Jig
      01:05

  • Act II

    • 1. Come all ye songsters of the sky (Tenor)
      02:03
    • 2. Prelude
      00:50
    • 3. May the God of Wit inspire (Chorus)
      00:47
    • 4. Echo (trumpet)
      01:03
    • 5. Now join your Warbling Voices all (Chorus)
      00:34
    • 6. Sing while we trip it (Fairies)
      02:21
    • 7. See, even Night herself is here (Night)
      03:38
    • 8. I am come to lock all fast (Mystery)
      00:49
    • 9. One charming Night (Secrecy)
      01:51
    • 10. Hush, no more (Sleep, Chorus)
      02:32
    • 11. Dance of the Followers of Night
      01:27
    • 12. Air
      01:17

  • Act III

    • 1. If Love's a Sweet Passion (Titania, Chorus)
      02:05
    • 2. Symphony while the Swans come forward
      01:36
    • 3. Dance of the Fairies
      00:59
    • 4. Dance of the Green Men
      01:29
    • 5. Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air (Soprano)
      04:54
    • 6. Now the maids and the men (Corydon, Mopsa)
      03:20
    • 7. Dance of the Haymakers
      00:47
    • 8. When I have often heard (A Nymph)
      03:42
    • 9. A Thousand, Thousand ways (Tenor, Chorus)
      02:36
    • 10. Hornpipe
      01:14

  • Act IV

    • 1. Symphony
      06:04
    • 2. Now the Night is chased away (Attendant, Chorus)
      02:07
    • 3. Let the Fifes, and the Clarions (Two Attendants)
      01:19
    • 4. Entry of Phoebus
      00:38
    • 5. When a cruel long Winter (Phoebus)
      02:59
    • 6. Hail! Great Parent of us all (Chorus)
      01:53
    • 7. Thus the ever Grateful Spring (Spring)
      02:16
    • 8. Here's the Summer (Summer)
      01:32
    • 9. See my many Colour'd Fields (Autumn)
      02:58
    • 10. Next Winter comes Slowly (Winter)
      02:17
    • 11. Hail! Great Parent (Chorus) (reprise)
      01:03
    • 12. Air
      01:07

  • Act V

    • 1. Prelude
      01:24
    • 2. Thrice happy Lovers (Juno)
      02:48
    • 3. O let me weep (Soprano)
      05:55
    • 4. Entry Dance
      01:32
    • 5. Symphony
      01:14
    • 6. Thus the gloomy World (A Chinese Man)
      04:14
    • 7. Thus Happy and Free (A Chinese Woman, Chorus)
      00:44
    • 8. Yes, Daphne (A Chinese Man)
      02:15
    • 9. Monkeys' Dance
      01:22
    • 10. Hark! how all things (A Chinese Woman)
      02:01
    • 11. Hark! now the Echoing air (A Chinese Woman, Chorus)
      02:20
    • 12. Sure the dull God of Marriage (Two Chinese Women, Chorus)
      02:09
    • 13. Prelude
      00:17
    • 14. See, see, I obey (Hymen)
      01:35
    • 15. Turn then thine eyes (Two Chinese Women)
      01:27
    • 16. My Torch, indeed (Hymen)
      00:47
    • 17. They shall be as happy as they're fair (Two Chinese Women, Hymen, Chorus)
      02:19
    • 18. Dance of the Chinese Man and Woman
      03:07