Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - The Fairy Queen | Текст песни

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• Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
• The Fairy Queen

The Deller Consort & Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra, Alfred Deller, 1972.

Honor Sheppard, Jean Knibbs, Christina Clarke (sopranos), Alfred Deller, Mark Deller (contre-ténors), John Buttrey, Neil Jenkins (ténors), Maurice Bevan, Norman Platt (baritons), The Deller Consort & Stour Music Chorus and Orchestra, Directeur - Alfred Deller.

Semi-opera in 5 acts (1693 version).
Либретто: Thomas Betterton (?) after A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.

Запись: 1972.

CD 2

Act IV
1. Symphony (Sonata while the sun risees): (Z. 629/27)
2. Aria (Ist Attendant) and Chorus: Now the night is chas'd away (Z. 629/28)
3. Duet (Two other Attendants): Let the fifes, and the clarions (Z. 629/29)
4. Entry of Phoebus (Z. 629/30)
5. Prelude and Aria (Phoebus): When a cruel long winter (Z. 629/31)
6. Chorus (Fairies and Elves): Hail! Great parent of all us (Z. 629/32)
7. Prelude and Aria (Spring): Thus the ever grateful spring (Z. 629/33)
8. Prelude and Aria (Summer): Here's the summer, sprightly, gay (Z. 629/34)
9. Prelude and Aria (Autumn): See my many colour'd fields (Z. 629/35)
10. Prelude and Aria (Winter): Now winter come slowly (Z. 629/36)
11. Chorus (Fairies and Elves): Hail! great parent of us all (Repeat) (Z. 629/37)
12. Fourth Act tune (Z. 629/38)
Act V
13. Prelude to Juno's song (Z. 629/39a)
14. Aria (Juno): Thrice Happy Lovers (Epithalamium) (Z. 629/39bc)
15. Aria (a Woman): O let me weep (The plaint) (Z. 629/40)
16. Entry dance (Z. 629/41)
17. Symphony (Z. 629/42)
18. Aria (a Chinese man): Thus the gloomy world at first began to shine (Z. 629/43)
19. Prelude, Aria (a Chinese woman) and Chorus: Thus happy and free (Z. 629/44)
20. Ground and Aria (Chinese man): Yes, Xansi, in your look I find (Z. 629/45)
21. Monkies' Dance (Z. 629/46)
22. Prelude and Aria (a Chinese woman): Hark how all things in one sound agree (Z. 629/47)
23. Aria (Second chinese woman) and Chorus: Hark, how the echoing air (Z. 629/48)
24. Duet (Two Chinese Women) and Chorus: Sure the dull god of marriage (Z. 629/49)
25. Prelude (Hymen enters) (Z. 629/50a) Aria (Hymen): See, see, I obey (Z. 629/50b)
26. Duet (Both women): Turn then thine eyes (Z. 629/50c)
27. Aria (Hymen): My torch indeed will from such brightness shine (Z. 629/50d)
28. Trio (Women and Hymen): They shall be as happy (Z. 629/50ef)
29. Chaconne (Dance for the chinese man and woman) (Z. 629/51)
30. Chorus: They shall be as happy as they're fair (Z. 629/51)

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