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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Eiddwen Harrhy, Jennifer Smith, Judith Nelson, Elisabeth Priday, Timothy Penrose, Wynford Evans, Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, David Thomas, Ashley Stafford

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

This disc highlights Gardiner's flair for drama. Airy dances and languishing sighs are but two of many effects that he calls forth. Pristine sound reproduction. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 10th Sep 2007
  • Catalogue No: 4776733
  • Label: DG Archiv
  • Series: Al Fresco
  • Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

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Contents

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Work length17:25
$8.80
$12.00
  • Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Judith Nelson (soprano), David Thomas (bass (vocal)), Stephen Varcoe (bass (vocal)), Elisabeth Priday (soprano)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Recorded: 1981-06-26
  • Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Prelude (I)

Track length1:58
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Hornpipe

Track length0:55
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Air

Track length0:47
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Rondeau

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Overture

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Song In Two Parts: "Come, come, come, let us leave"

Track length2:24
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Scene Of The Drunken Poet: "Fill up the Bowl"

Track length6:39
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First Act Tune: Jig

Track length1:11
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Work length22:06
$14.30
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  • Wynford Evans (tenor), Judith Nelson (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Timothy Penrose (countertenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass (vocal)), Martyn Hill (tenor)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Recorded: 1981-06-26
  • Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Prelude...Come, All Ye Songsters Of The Sky

Track length1:53
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Prelude (II)

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Trio: "May the God of Wit inspire"

Track length1:05
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Echo

Track length1:32
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Chorus: "Now Joyn your Warbling Voices all"

Track length0:28
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A Dance Of Fairies

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Song And Chorus: "Sing while we trip it on the Green"

Track length1:42
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"See, even Night herself is here"

Track length4:16
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"I am come to lock all fast"

Track length1:11
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"One charming night"

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"Hush, no more"

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Dance For The Followers Of Night

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Second Act Tune: Air

Track length1:21
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen / Act 3

Work length28:30
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  • Jennifer Smith (soprano), Judith Nelson (soprano), Timothy Penrose (countertenor), Wynford Evans (tenor), David Thomas (bass (vocal)), Stephen Varcoe (bass (vocal))
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Recorded: 1981-06-26
  • Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

A Song In Two Parts And Chorus: "If Love's a Sweet Passion"

Track length7:54
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Overture: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward

Track length2:03
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Dance For The Fairies

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Dance For The Green Men

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Song: "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear"

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Dialog: "Now the Maids and the Men"

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Song: "When I have often heard"

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A Dance Of Haymakers

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Song And Chorus: "A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find"

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Third Act Tune: Hornpipe

Track length0:58
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Work length25:57
$11.00
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  • Martyn Hill (tenor), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass (vocal)), Judith Nelson (soprano), Timothy Penrose (countertenor), Ashley Stafford (countertenor)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Recorded: 1981-06-26
  • Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Symphony

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Solo & Chorus "Now the night"

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Duet: "Let the fifes, and the Clarions"

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Entry Of Phoebus

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Song: "When a cruel long Winter"- Chorus: "Hail! Great Parent of us all"

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Song: "Thus the ever Grateful Spring"

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Song: "Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay"

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Song: "See my many Colour'd Fields"

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Song And Chorus: "Now Winter comes Slowly"

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Fourth Act Tune: Air

Track length0:55
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Work length42:05
$22.00
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  • Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Wynford Evans (tenor), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), David Thomas (bass (vocal))
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Recorded: 1981-06-26
  • Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Prelude (I)

Track length1:07
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Epithalamium - Thrice Happy Lovers

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The Plaint

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Entry Dance

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Symphony

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Thus The Gloomy World

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Thus Happy And Free

Track length1:37
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Song: "Yes, Daphne, in your Looks I find"

Track length1:53
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Monkey's Dance

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Hark! How All Things

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Hark! The Ech'ing Air

Track length2:51
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Sure The Dull God

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Prelude (II)

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Solo: "See, see, I obey"

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Duet: "Turn then thine Eyes"

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Solo: "My Torch, indeed"

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Trio: "They shall be as happy"

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Air

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Chorus: "They shall be as happy"

Track length1:10
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Chaconne: Dance For Chinese Man And Woman

Track length2:33
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