Henry Purcell

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

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Release dateMarch 09, 2009

Tracklist

1
Dido and Aeneas: Overture
1:57
1:57
2
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Shake the cloud from off your brow" (Belinda, chorus)
1:02
1:02
3
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Ah Belinda, I am press'd with torment" (Dido)
3:38
3:38
4
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Grief increases by concealing" (Belinda, Dido) - "When monarchs unite, how happy their state" (Chorus)
0:42
0:42
5
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Whence could so much virtue spring?" (Dido, Belinda)
1:54
1:54
6
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Fear no danger to ensue" (Belinda, chorus)
1:33
1:33
7
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "See our royal guest appears" (Belinda, Aeneas) - "Cupid only throws the dart" (Chorus)
1:10
1:10
8
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "If not for mine, for Empire's sake" (Aeneas) - "Pursue thy conquest, Love" (Belinda) - "To the hills and the vales" (Chorus)
2:14
2:14
9
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Triumphing Dance
1:13
1:13
10
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene I. Prelude for the Witches "Wayward sisters, you that fright" (Sorceress) - "Harm's our delight" (Chorus)
2:15
2:15
11
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene I. "The Queen of Carthage" (Sorceress) - "Ho! ho! ho!" (Chorus) - "Ruin'd ere the set of sun?" (Two Witches, Sorceress) - "Ho! ho! ho!" (Chorus)
1:53
1:53
12
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene I. "But ere we this perform" (Two Witches)
1:10
1:10
13
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene I. "In our deep vaulted cell" (Chorus) - Echo Dance
2:22
2:22
14
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales" (Belinda, chorus)
3:35
3:35
15
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. "Oft she visits this lone mountain" (Second Woman)
1:56
1:56
16
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. "Behold upon my bending spear" (Aeneas, Dido) - "Haste, haste to town" (Belinda, chorus)
1:13
1:13
17
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. "Stay Prince" (Spirit, Aeneas)
2:04
2:04
18
Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. "Then since our charmes have sped" (Chorus) - The Grove's Dance
1:28
1:28
19
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene I. "Come away" (Sailor, chorus) - The Sailor's Dance
2:20
2:20
20
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene I. "See, see the flags" (Two Witches, Sorceress) - "Our next motion" (Sorceress)
1:41
1:41
21
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene I. "Destruction's our delight" (Chorus)
0:31
0:31
22
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene I. The Witches' Dance
1:35
1:35
23
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. "Your counsel all is urged in vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
3:35
3:35
24
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. "Great minds against themselves conspire" (Chorus) - "Thy hand, Belinda" (Dido)
2:02
2:02
25
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)
3:47
3:47
26
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. "With drooping wings" (Chorus)
2:57
2:57
27
King Arthur: Overture
1:52
1:52
28
King Arthur: Air
1:31
1:31
29
King Arthur: Act I. "Woden, first to thee"
2:49
2:49
30
King Arthur: Act I. "The white horse neigh'd aloud"
1:22
1:22
31
King Arthur: Act I. "The lot is cast, and Tanfan pleas'd"
0:32
0:32
32
King Arthur: Act I. "Brave souls, to be renown'd in story"
2:46
2:46
33
King Arthur: Act I. "I call you all to Woden's Hall"
2:08
2:08
34
King Arthur: Act I. "Come if you dare" - First Act Tune
4:13
4:13
35
King Arthur: Act II. "Hither, this way, this way bend"
2:06
2:06
36
King Arthur: Act II. "Let not a moonborn elf mislead ye" - "Hither this way, this way bend"
1:52
1:52
37
King Arthur: Act II. "Come, follow me"
2:22
2:22
38
King Arthur: Act II. "How blest are shepherds"
5:19
5:19
39
King Arthur: Act II. "Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying"
1:53
1:53
40
King Arthur: Act II. "Come, shepherds, lead up a lively measure" - Hornpipe
1:38
1:38
41
King Arthur: Act II. Second Act Tune (Air)
1:07
1:07
42
King Arthur: Act III. Prelude
0:24
0:24
43
King Arthur: Act III. "What ho! thou genius of this isle"
0:59
0:59
44
King Arthur: Act III. Prelude while the Cold Genius rises - "What power art thou"
4:08
4:08
45
King Arthur: Act III. "Thou doting fool"
0:37
0:37
46
King Arthur: Act III. "Great Love, I know thee now"
0:55
0:55
47
King Arthur: Act III. "No part of my dominion"
0:56
0:56
48
King Arthur: Act III. Prelude
0:44
0:44
49
King Arthur: Act III. "See, see, we assemble" - Dance
1:27
1:27
50
King Arthur: Act III. "'Tis I that have warm'd ye" - "'Tis Love that has warm'd us"
1:59
1:59
51
King Arthur: Act III. "Sound a parley" - "'Tis Love that has warm'd us"
4:00
4:00
52
King Arthur: Act III. Third Act Tune (Hornpipe)
0:48
0:48
53
King Arthur: Act IV. "Two daughters of this aged stream are we"
2:30
2:30
54
King Arthur: Act IV. Passacaglia - "How happy the lover" - Ritornello - "For love every creature" - "In vain are our graces"
7:12
7:12
55
King Arthur: Act IV. Fourth Act Tune (Air)
0:40
0:40
56
King Arthur: Act V. Trumpet Tune
0:46
0:46
57
King Arthur: Act V. "Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies"
3:23
3:23
58
King Arthur: Act V. Symphony
1:42
1:42
59
King Arthur: Act V. "Round thy coast"
3:20
3:20
60
King Arthur: Act V. "For folded flocks, and fruitful plains"
2:01
2:01
61
King Arthur: Act V. "Your hay it is mow'd"
2:28
2:28
62
King Arthur: Act V. "Fairest Isle"
4:43
4:43
63
King Arthur: Act V. "You say 'tis Love"
5:26
5:26
64
King Arthur: Act V. Trumpet Tune
0:36
0:36
65
King Arthur: Act V. "Saint George"
2:06
2:06
66
King Arthur: Act V. "Our natives not alone appear"
1:06
1:06
67
King Arthur: Act V. Chaconne
3:31
3:31
68
The Fairy Queen, Prelude - Hornpipe
2:40
2:40
69
The Fairy Queen, Air - Rondeau
2:13
2:13
70
The Fairy Queen, Act I, Overture
1:26
1:26
71
The Fairy Queen, Act I, Come, let us leave the town
1:14
1:14
72
The Fairy Queen, Act I, Scene of the Drunken Poet
6:06
6:06
73
The Fairy Queen, Act I, First act tune: Jig
1:23
1:23
74
The Fairy Queen, Act II, Come all ye songsters of the sky
2:13
2:13
75
The Fairy Queen, Act II, May the God of wit inspire the sacred nine
2:47
2:47
76
The Fairy Queen, Act II, Now join your warbling voices all
0:36
0:36
77
The Fairy Queen, Act II, Sing while we trip it. Dance of the fairies
3:57
3:57
78
The Fairy Queen, Act II, See, even Night herself is here ... I am come to lock all fast ... One charming night ... Hush, no more
11:35
11:35
79
The Fairy Queen, Act II, Second act tune: Air
2:18
2:18
80
The Fairy Queen, Act III, If Love's a sweet passion, why does it torment?
1:55
1:55
81
The Fairy Queen, Act III, Symphony while the swans come forward
0:56
0:56
82
The Fairy Queen, Act III, Dance for the Fairies
1:23
1:23
83
The Fairy Queen, Act III, Dance for the Green Men
1:17
1:17
84
The Fairy Queen, Act III, Ye gentle spirits of the air, appear!
4:47
4:47
85
The Fairy Queen, Act III, Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa. Dance for the haymakers
4:38
4:38
86
The Fairy Queen, Act III, When I have often heard young maids complaining
2:10
2:10
87
The Fairy Queen, Act III, A thousand, thousand ways we'll find to entertain the hours
2:31
2:31
88
The Fairy Queen, Act III, Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
1:02
1:02
89
The Fairy Queen, Act IV, Symphony
6:04
6:04
90
The Fairy Queen, Act IV, Now the night is chased away
2:08
2:08
91
The Fairy Queen, Act IV, Let the fifes and the clarions and shrill trumpets sound
1:14
1:14
92
The Fairy Queen, Act IV, Entry of Phoebus. When a cruel long Winter has frozen the earth
3:32
3:32
93
The Fairy Queen, Act IV, Hail! Great parent of us all ... Thus the ever grateful Spring ... Here's the Summer, sprightly gay ... See, see my many coloured fields ... Next, Winter comes slowly ... Hail! great parent of us all
10:43
10:43
94
The Fairy Queen, Act V, Prelude. Thrice happy lovers, may you be for ever free
3:49
3:49
95
The Fairy Queen, Act V, The Plaint: O let me ever, ever weep
7:52
7:52
96
The Fairy Queen, Act V, Entry dance. Symphony. Thus the gloomy world at first began to shine ... Thus happy and free ... Yes, Daphne, in your face I find
9:27
9:27
97
The Fairy Queen: Act V: Monkeys' Dance
0:49
0:49
98
The Fairy Queen, Act V, Hark! How all things with one sound rejoice ... Hark! the echoing air
4:27
4:27
99
The Fairy Queen, Act V, Sure the dull God of Marriage does not hear. Prelude. See, I obey ... Turn then thine eyes upon those glories here ... My torch indeed will from such brightness shine
5:21
5:21
100
The Fairy Queen, Act V, Chaconne
2:41
2:41
101
The Fairy Queen, Act V, They shall be as happy as they're fair
1:59
1:59
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