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Purcell: The Fairy Queen

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Norman Platt (soloist), Honor Sheppard (soloist), Christina Clarke (soloist), Jean Knibbs (soloist), Mark Deller (soloist), Maurice Bevan (soloist), Alfred Deller (soloist), John Buttrey (soloist), Neil Jenkins (soloist), Deller Consort, Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra, Stour Music Chorus &...

Purcell: The Fairy Queen

Purcell: The Fairy Queen

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Norman Platt (soloist), Honor Sheppard (soloist), Christina Clarke (soloist), Jean Knibbs (soloist), Mark Deller (soloist), Maurice Bevan (soloist), Alfred Deller (soloist), John Buttrey (soloist), Neil Jenkins (soloist), Deller Consort, Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra, Stour Music Chorus &...

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  • Release date: 1st Jan 1972
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • Catalogue number: HMC332313
  • Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The First Musick
Work length2:54
I. Prelude
Track length1:57
II. Hornpipe
Track length0:57
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, The Second Musick
Work length2:54
I. Air
Track length0:58
II. Rondeau
Track length1:20
III. Overture
Track length0:36
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act I
Work length10:13
  • Norman Platt (soloist), Honor Sheppard (soloist), Christina Clarke (soloist)
  • Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra, Deller Consort
  • Alfred Deller
"Come let us leave" (Two Fairies)
Track length3:13
Scene of the drunken poet
Track length5:47
First Act tune
Track length1:13
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II
Work length24:10
  • Christina Clarke (soloist), Jean Knibbs (soloist), Mark Deller (soloist), Honor Sheppard (soloist), Maurice Bevan (soloist)
  • Deller Consort, Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra
  • Alfred Deller
Prelude. "Come all ye songsters" (A Fairy)
Track length1:56
Prelude.
Track length0:41
"May the God of wit" (Three Fairies)
Track length0:58
Echo. Now join your warbling voices
Track length1:32
"Sing while we trip" (A Fairy). Fairy Dance
Track length2:12
"See, even night" (Night)
Track length5:14
"I am come to lock" (Mistery)
Track length0:46
"One charming night" (Secret)
Track length2:04
"Hush, no more" (Sleep)
Track length5:02
Dance for the followers of Night
Track length2:23
Second Act tune
Track length1:22
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III
Work length24:21
  • Christina Clarke (soloist), Honor Sheppard (soloist), Jean Knibbs (soloist), Norman Platt (soloist)
  • Deller Consort, Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra
  • Alfred Deller
"If love's a sweet passion" (A Nymph)
Track length2:18
Symphony while the swans come forward
Track length3:24
Dance for the Fairies
Track length0:51
Dance for the Green Men
Track length1:51
"Ye gentle spirits of the air" (A Nymph)
Track length4:53
Dialogue between Corydon and Mopsa
Track length3:51
"When I have often heard" (A Nymph)
Track length2:48
Dance for the Haymakers
Track length0:52
"A thousand, thousand ways" (Corydon, Mopsa)
Track length2:32
Third Act tune
Track length1:01
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV
Work length27:11
  • Jean Knibbs (soloist), John Buttrey (soloist), Maurice Bevan (soloist), Mark Deller (soloist), Neil Jenkins (soloist), Honor Sheppard (soloist), Christina Clarke (soloist)
  • Deller Consort, Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra
  • Alfred Deller
Symphony
Track length6:14
"Now the night" (Attendants)
Track length2:15
"Let the fifes and the clarions" (Attendants)
Track length1:25
Entry of Phoebus
Track length0:44
"When a cruel long winter" (Phoebus)
Track length3:10
"Hail! Great parent" (Fairies)
Track length2:07
"Thus the ever grateful Spring" (Spring)
Track length2:09
"Here's the summer" (Summer)
Track length1:11
"See, see my many colour'd fields" (Automn)
Track length2:54
"Now winter comes slowly" (Winter)
Track length2:48
"Hail! Great parent!" (Fairies)
Track length1:09
Fourth Act tune
Track length1:05
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V
Work length20:39
  • Christina Clarke (soloist), Jean Knibbs (soloist)
  • Deller Consort, Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra
  • Alfred Deller
Prelude
Track length0:35
"Thrice happy lovers" (Juno)
Track length2:31
The Plaint
Track length7:23
Entry Dance
Track length1:14
Symphony
Track length1:04
"Thus the gloomy world" (The Chinese Man)
Track length4:48
"Thus happy and free" (A Chinese Woman)
Track length0:55
"Yes Xansi" (The Chinese Man)
Track length2:09
Purcell: The Fairy Queen: Monkey's Dance
Work length0:59
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V
Work length16:44
  • Jean Knibbs (soloist), Honor Sheppard (soloist), Maurice Bevan (soloist)
  • Deller Consort, Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra
  • Alfred Deller
"Hark how all things" (A Chinese Woman)
Track length2:01
"Hark! The choing air" (A Chinese Woman)
Track length2:43
"Sure the dull God" (A Chinese Woman)
Track length3:03
Prelude. "See, I obey" (Hymen)
Track length1:53
"Turn then thine eyes" (Chinese Woman)
Track length1:32
"My torch indeed" (Hymen)
Track length0:39
"They shall be as happy"
Track length0:48
Chaconne
Track length3:03
"They shall be as happy"
Track length1:02
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