PURCELL,H.: Královna víl - The Fairy Queen (2CD)

Purcell: The Faily Queen
 
HENRY PURCELL
The Fairy Queen
Carolyn Sampson, Soprano (CS)
Andrew Carwood, Tenor (AC)
Michael Bundy, Bass (MB)
Gillian Keith, Soprano 1 (GK)
Rebecca Outram, Soprano 2 (RO)
William Towers, Counter Tenor (WT)
Robert Murray, Tenor (RM)
 

CD 1

First Music
1. No. 1 - Prelude                                                                                                                    1’51
2. No. 2 - Hornpipe                                                                                                                  0’53
 
Second Music
3. No. 3 - Aire                                                                                                                         0’50
4. No.4 - Rondeau                                                                                                                   1’12
 
ACT 1
5. No. 5 - Overture                                                                                                                  1’27
6. No. 6 - Duet "Come, let us leave the town" (GK, ME)                                                               2’18
7. No. 7 - Scene of the Drunken Poet (MB, GK, RO)                                                                    6’41
8. No. 8 - First Act Tune: Jig                                                                                                     1’15
 
ACT 2
9. No. 9 - solo "Come, all ye songsters" (AC)                                                                             2’21
10. No. 10 - Interlude                                                                                                              0’58
11. No. 11 - Terzetto "May the God of Wit inspire" (WT, RM, MB)                                                  1’09
12. No. 12 - Echo                                                                                                                    1’25
13. No. 13a - Chorus "Now join your warbling voices all"                                                             0’32
14. No. 13b - Solo with Chorus "Sing while we trip it" (GK)                                                         
                 - Fairies Dance                                                                                                       2’23
15. No. 14 - Night "See, even Night herself is here" (CS)                                                             5’37     
16. No. 15 - Mistery "I am come to lock all fast" (RO)                                                                 0’58
17. No. 16 - Secrecy "One charming night" (AC)                                                                         2’27
18. No. 17 - Sleep and Chorus "Husk, no more, be silent all" (MB)                                                4’39
19. No. 18 - Dance of the Followers of Night                                                                               1’15
20. No. 19 - Second Act Tune: Aire                                                                                           1’11
 
ACT 3
21. No. 20 - Solo with Chorus "If love’s a sweet passion” (RO)                                                     3’53
22. No. 21 - Symphony while the swans come forward (Overture)                                               1’35
23. No. 22 - Dance for the Fairies                                                                                             0’48
24. No. 23 - Dance for the Green Man                                                                                       1’21
25. No. 24 - Solo "Ye gentle spirits of the air" (CS)                                                                     5’33
26. No. 25 - Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa (MB, WT)                                                       3’50
27. No. 26 - A Nymph "When I have often heard" (CS)                                                               2’29
28. No. 27 - Dance of the Haymakers                                                                                        0’59
29. No. 28 - Solo with Chorus “A thousand, thousand ways” (AC)                                                 2’24
30. No. 29 - Third Act Tune: Hornpipe                                                                                       1’00
 
Total time:                                                                                                                              65’19



CD 2

ACT 4
1. No. 30 - Symphony (Canzona, Largo, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro)                                                6’49
2. No. 31- An Attendant and Chorus "Now the night is chas'd away" (CS)                                      2’04
3. No. 32 - Two Others Attendants "Let the fife and the clarions" (AC, RM)                                    1’28
4. No. 33 - Entry of Phoebus                                                                                                     0’41
5. No. 34 - Phoebus "When a cruel, long Winter" (AC)                                                                 2’45
6. No. 35 - Chorus "Hail! Great Parent of us all"                                                                          1’51
7. No. 36 - Spring "Thus the ever grateful Spring" (CS)                                                               2’03
8. No. 37 - Summer "Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay" (WT)                                                    1’24
9. No. 38 - Autumn "See my many colour'd fields" (AC)                                                              3’05
10. No. 39 - Winter "Now Winter come slowly" (MB)                                                                    2’32
11. No. 35 - (rep.) Chorus "Hail! Great Parent of us all"                                                               1’04
12. No. 40 - Fourth Act Tune: Aire                                                                                             1’04
 
ACT 5
13. No. 41 – Prelude                                                                                                                1’03
14. No. 42 - Epithalamium: Juno "Thrice happy lovers" (RO)                                                        2’46
15. No. 43 - The Plaint "O let me ever, ever weep" (CS)                                                             7’58
16. No. 44 - Entry Dance                                                                                                          1’33
17. No. 45 - Symphony                                                                                                            1’03
18. No. 46 - A Chinese Man "Thus the gloomy world" (AC)                                                           5’00
19. No. 47 - A Chinese Woman and Chorus "Thus happy and free" (GK)                                       1’11
20. No. 48 - A Chinese Man "Yes, Daphne, in your looks I find" (AC)                                             2’05
21. No. 49 - Monkeys’ Dance                                                                                                    0’56
22. No. 50 - First Chinese Woman "Hark, how all things" (RO)                                                      2’04
23. No. 51 - Second Chinese Woman and Chorus "Hark, the echoing air" (CS)                               2’36
24. No. 52 - Two Chinese Women and Chorus "Sure the dull God of Marriage" (GK, RO)                3’10
25. No. 53 – Prelude                                                                                                                0’22
26. No. 54 - Hymen "See, I obey" (MB)                                                                                     2’04
27. No. 55 - Two Chinese Women "Turn then thine eyes" (GK, RO)                                              0’45
28. No. 56 - Hymen "My torch indeed" (MB)                                                                               1’01
29. No. 57 - Chaconne (Dance for a Chinese Man and Woman)                                                    2’34
30. No. 58 - Two Chinese Women and Hymen with Chorus "They shall be as happy" (GK, RO, ME)  1’54
 
Total time:                                                                                                                              67’07
 
 
NEW ENGLISH VOICES chorus master Michael McCarthy
ACCADEMIA BIZANTINA
OTTAVIO DANTONE
 
Co-produced with Ravenna Festival
Live recording: 10 July 2001, Ravenna, Italy