Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Remastered) Deller Consort

• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695): The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The First Musick:
• 1 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The First Musick: I. Prelude 01:57
• 2 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The First Musick: II. Hornpipe 00:57
• The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The Second Musick:
• 3 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The Second Musick: I. Air 00:58
• 4 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The Second Musick: II. Rondeau 01:20
• 5 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The Second Musick: III. Overture 00:36
• The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act I:
• 6 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act I: "Come let us leave" (Two Fairies) 03:13
• 7 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act I: Scene of the drunken poet 05:47
• 8 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act I: First Act tune 01:13
• The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II:
• 9 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Prelude. "Come all ye songsters" (A Fairy) 01:56
• 10 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Prelude. 00:41
• 11 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: "May the God of wit" (Three Fairies) 00:58
• 12 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Echo. Now join your warbling voices 01:32
• 13 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: "Sing while we trip" (A Fairy). Fairy Dance 02:12
• 14 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: "See, even night" (Night) 05:14
• 15 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: "I am come to lock" (Mistery) 00:46
• 16 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: "One charming night" (Secret) 02:04
• 17 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: "Hush, no more" (Sleep) 05:02
• 18 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Dance for the followers of Night 02:23
• 19 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Second Act tune 01:22
• The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III:
• 20 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: "If love's a sweet passion" (A Nymph) 02:18
• 21 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: Symphony while the swans come forward 03:24
• 22 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: Dance for the Fairies 00:51
• 23 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: Dance for the Green Men 01:51
• 24 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: "Ye gentle spirits of the air" (A Nymph) 04:53
• 25 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: Dialogue between Corydon and Mopsa 03:51
• 26 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: "When I have often heard" (A Nymph) 02:48
• 27 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: Dance for the Haymakers 00:52
• 28 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: "A thousand, thousand ways" (Corydon, Mopsa) 02:32
• 29 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: Third Act tune 01:01
• The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV:
• 30 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Symphony 06:14
• 31 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "Now the night" (Attendants) 02:15
• 32 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "Let the fifes and the clarions" (Attendants) 01:25
• 33 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Entry of Phoebus 00:44
• 34 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "When a cruel long winter" (Phoebus) 03:10
• 35 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "Hail! Great parent" (Fairies) 02:07
• 36 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "Thus the ever grateful Spring" (Spring) 02:09
• 37 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "Here's the summer" (Summer) 01:11
• 38 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "See, see my many colour'd fields" (Automn) 02:54
• 39 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "Now winter comes slowly" (Winter) 02:48
• 40 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: "Hail! Great parent!" (Fairies) 01:09
• 41 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Fourth Act tune 01:05
• The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V:
• 42 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Prelude 00:35
• 43 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Thrice happy lovers" (Juno) 02:31
• 44 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: The Plaint 07:23
• 45 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Entry Dance 01:14
• 46 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Symphony 01:04
• 47 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Thus the gloomy world" (The Chinese Man) 04:48
• 48 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Thus happy and free" (A Chinese Woman) 00:55
• 49 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Yes Xansi" (The Chinese Man) 02:09
• 50 The Fairy Queen: Monkey's Dance 00:59
• 51 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Hark how all things" (A Chinese Woman) 02:01
• 52 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Hark! The choing air" (A Chinese Woman) 02:43
• 53 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Sure the dull God" (A Chinese Woman) 03:03
• 54 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Prelude. "See, I obey" (Hymen) 01:53
• 55 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "Turn then thine eyes" (Chinese Woman) 01:32
• 56 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "My torch indeed" (Hymen) 00:39
• 57 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "They shall be as happy" 00:48
• 58 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Chaconne 03:03
• 59 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: "They shall be as happy" 01:02
• Total Runtime 02:10:05

Info for Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Remastered)

On the strength of the immense success of Dido & Aeneas and King Arthur, in 1692 Purcell went on to produce The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. The work is, in fact, a ‘semi-opera’, or ‘opera with dialogue’, in which only some of the crucial scenes are provided with music. But this version of A Midsummer-Night’s Dream by the ‘Orpheus Britannicus’ became almost as famous as the play that inspired it, with its love scenes, its supernatural scenes and its innate sense of musical humour investing it with an irresistible savour and enchantment.

The Deller choir
The King's Musick
Alfred Deller, direction

Digitally remastered

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