Artist: Purcell (Gardiner, The English Baroque Soloists)
Album: The Fairy Queen
Released: 1982
Genre: Classical, Opera
Country: UK
Duration: 02:17:42
Tracklisting:CD1
01. - Prelude
(1:58)02. - Hornpipe
(0:55)03. - Air
(0:48)04. - Rondeau
(1:30)05. - Overture
(2:06)06. - Song in two parts: ''Come, come, come, let us leave the Town''
(2:26)07. - Scene of the drunken poet: ''Fill up the bowl''
(6:40)08. - First act tune: Jig
(1:20)09. - Prelude and song: ''Come all ye songsters of the sky''
(1:54)10. - Prelude
(0:50)11. - Trio: ''May the God of wit inspire''
(1:05)12. - Echo
(1:34)13. - Chorus: ''Now joyn your Warbling Voices all''
(0:28)14. - A dance of Fairies
(0:44)15. - Song and chorus: ''Sing while we trip it on the green''
(1:44)16. - Song: ''See, even Night her self is here'' (NIGHT)
(4:18)17. - Song: ''I am come to lock all fast'' (MYSTERY)
(1:11)18. - Song: ''One charming Night'' (SECRESIE)
(1:58)19. - Song and chorus: ''Hush, no more, be silent all'' (SLEEP)
(3:21)20. - A dance for the followers of Night
(1:53)21. - Second act tune: Air
(1:30)22. - A song in two parts and chorus: ''If Love's a sweet passion''
(8:03)23. - Overture: Symphony while the swans come forward
(2:04)24. - Dance for the Fairies
(0:50)25. - Dance for the Green men
(1:28)26. - Song: ''Ye gentle spirits of the air, appear''
(5:11)27. - Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa: ''Now the maids and the men''
(3:57)28. - Song: ''When I have often heard'' (A NYMPH)
(3:13)29. - A dance of haymakers
(0:57)30. - Song and chorus: ''A thousand thousand ways we'll find''
(2:08)31. - Third act tune: Hornpipe
(0:58)CD2
01. - Symphony
(6:12)02. - Solo anc Chorus: ''Now the Night is chac'd away''
(2:07)03. - Duet: ''Let the fifes, and the clarions'' (TWO OTHERS)
(1:57)04. - Entry of Phoebus
(0:34)05. - ''When a cruel long Winter'' (PHOEBUS) - Chorus: ''Hail! Great parent of us all''
(4:20)06. - ''Thus the ever grateful spring'' (SPRING)
(1:58)07. - ''Here's the summer, sprightly, gay'' (SUMMER)
(1:40)08. - ''See my many colour'd fields'' (AUTUMN)
(3:03)09. - 'Now winter comes slowly'' (WINTER)
(3:23)10. - Fourth act tune: air
(1:03)11. - Prelude
(1:07)12. - Epithalamium: ''Thrice happy lovers'' (JUNO)
(2:40)13. - The plaint: ''O let me weep''
(7:42)14. - Entry dance
(1:11)15. - Symphony
(1:12)16. - ''Thus the gloomy world'' (A CHINESE MAN)
(5:44)17. - ''Thus happy and free'' (CHINESE WOMAN)
(1:38)18. - ''Yes, Daphne, in your looks I find'' (CHINESE MAN)
(1:55)19. - Monkeys' dance
(1:04)20. - ''Hark how all things'' (1st WOMAN)
(2:07)21. - ''Hark now the echoing air'' (2nd WOMAN)
(2:51)22. - ''Sure the full God of marriage'' (BOTH WOMEN)
(2:07)23. - Prelude
(0:31)24. - ''See, see, I obey'' (HYMEN)
(1:58)25. - ''Turn then thine eyes'' (BOTH WOMEN)
(1:25)26. - ''My torch, indeed'' (HYMEN)
(0:44)27. - ''They shall be as happy'' (BOTH WOMEN, HYMEN)
(1:11)28. - Air
(1:30)29. - ''They shall be as happy''
(1:11)30. - Dance for chinese man and woman
(2:34)