Purcell Edition, Vol. 1: Dido & Aeneas, King Arthur & the Fairy Queen

Concentus Musicus Wien, Les Arts Florissants, Nikolaus Harnoncourt & William Christie

2009-11-10 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Dido & Aeneas: Overture
  1:59
• 2
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow" [Belinda, Chorus]
  1:03
• 3
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "Ah Belinda, I Am Press'd With Torment" [Dido]
  3:38
• 4
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "Grief Increases By Concealing" [Belinda, Dido] "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State" [Chorus]
  0:42
• 5
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?" [Dido, Belinda]
  1:55
• 6
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "Fear No Danger to Ensue" [Belinda, Chorus]
  1:33
• 7
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "See Our Royal Guest Appears" [Belinda, Aeneas] "Cupid Only Throws the Dart" [Chorus]
  1:10
• 8
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake" [Aeneas] "Pursue Thy Conquest, Love" [Belinda] "To the Hills and the Vales" [Chorus]
  2:15
• 9
  Dido & Aeneas: Act I "The Triumphing Dance"
  1:10
• 10
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 Prelude for the Witches "Wayward Sisters, You That Fright" [Sorceress] "Harm's Our Delight" [Chorus]
  2:19
• 11
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "The Queen of Carthage" ... "Ho! Ho! Ho!" [Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus]
  1:53
• 12
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "But Ere We This Perform" [First Witch, Second Witch]
  1:17
• 13
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell" [Chorus] "Echo Dance of Furies"
  2:06
• 14
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "Ritornelle" "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" [Belinda, Chorus]
  3:36
• 15
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain" [Second Woman]
  1:56
• 16
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "Behold Upon My Bending Spear" [Aeneas, Dido] "Haste, Haste to Town" [Belinda, Chorus]
  1:14
• 17
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "Stay Prince" [Spirit, Aeneas]
  2:04
• 18
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 2 "Then Since Our Chorus Have Sped" [Chorus] "The Grove's Dance"
  1:24
• 19
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "Come Away" [Sailor, Chorus] "The Sailors' Dance"
  2:24
• 20
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "See, See the Flags" [Sorceress, First Witch] "Our Next Motion" [Sorceress]
  1:41
• 21
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "Destruction's Our Delight" [Chorus]
  0:31
• 22
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "The Witches' Dance"
  1:35
• 23
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain" [Dido, Belinda, Aeneas]
  3:35
• 24
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" [Chorus] "Thy Hand, Belinda" [Dido]
  2:03
• 25
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "When I Am Laid In Earth" [Dido]
  3:54
• 26
  Dido & Aeneas: Act 3 "With Drooping Wings" [Chorus]
  2:42
• 27
  King Arthur: Overture to Act 1
  1:58
• 28
  King Arthur: Air
  1:32
• 29
  King Arthur: Act 1 "Woden, First to Thee" [Bass, Chorus]
  2:50
• 30
  King Arthur: Act 1 "The White Horse Neigh'd Aloud" [Bass, Tenor, Chorus]
  1:22
• 31
  King Arthur: Act 1 "The Lot Is Cast, and Tanfan Pleas'd" [Soprano]
  0:33
• 32
  King Arthur: Act 1 "Brave Souls, to Be Renown'd In Story" [Chorus]
  2:47
• 33
  King Arthur: Act 1 "I Call You All to Woden's Hall" [Tenor, Chorus]
  2:06
• 34
  King Arthur: Act 1 "Come If You Dare" [Tenor, Chorus]
  4:10
• 35
  King Arthur: Act 2 "Hither, This Way, This Way Bend" [Soprano, Chorus]
  2:12
• 36
  King Arthur: Act 2 "Let Not a Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye" [Bass] "Hither This Way, This Way Bend" [Chorus]
  1:53
• 37
  King Arthur: Act 2 "Come, Follow Me" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]
  2:22
• 38
  King Arthur: Act 2 "How Blest Are Shepherds" [Tenor, Chorus]
  5:17
• 39
  King Arthur: Act 2 "Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying" [Sopranos]
  1:55
• 40
  King Arthur: Act 2 "Come, Shepherds, Lead Up a Lively Measure" [Chorus] Hornpipe
  1:39
• 41
  King Arthur: Air
  1:01
• 42
  King Arthur: Act 3 Prelude
  0:31
• 43
  King Arthur: Act 3 "What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle" [Soprano]
  0:59
• 44
  King Arthur: Act 3 "What Power Art Thou" [Bass]
  4:08
• 45
  King Arthur: Act 3 "Thou Doting Fool" [Soprano]
  0:37
• 46
  King Arthur: Act 3 "Great Love, I Know Thee Now" [Bass]
  0:55
• 47
  King Arthur: Act 3 "No, Pt. of My Dominion" [Soprano]
  0:56
• 48
  King Arthur: Act 3 Prelude
  0:44
• 49
  King Arthur: Act 3 "See, See, We Assemble" [Chorus] Dance
  1:28
• 50
  King Arthur: Act 3 "Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye" [Soprano] "Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us" [Chorus]
  1:59
• 51
  King Arthur: Act 3 "Sound a Parley" [Soprano, Bass] "Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us" [Chorus]
  4:01
• 52
  King Arthur: Act 3 Hornpipe
  0:46
• 53
  King Arthur: Act 4 "Two Daughters of This Aged Stream Are We" [Sopranos]
  2:33
• 54
  King Arthur: Act 4 "How Happy the Lover" [Tenor, Chorus] Ritornello "For Love Every Creature" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus] "In Vain Are Our Graces" [Chorus]
  7:12
• 55
  King Arthur: Act 4 Air
  0:42
• 56
  King Arthur: Act 5 Trumpet Tune
  0:47
• 57
  King Arthur: Act 5 "Ye Blust'ring Brethren of the Skies" [Bass]
  3:24
• 58
  King Arthur: Act 5 Symphony
  1:42
• 59
  King Arthur: Act 5 "Round Thy Coast" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]
  3:21
• 60
  King Arthur: Act 5 "For Folded Flocks, and Fruitful Plains" [Tenors, Bass]
  2:00
• 61
  King Arthur: Act 5 "Your Hay It Is Mow'd" [Bass, Chorus]
  2:27
• 62
  King Arthur: Act 5 "Fairest Isle" [Soprano]
  4:43
• 63
  King Arthur: Act 5 "You Say 'tis Love" [Soprano, Bass]
  5:27
• 64
  King Arthur: Act 5 Trumpet Tune: Warlike Consort
  0:37
• 65
  King Arthur: Act 5 "Saint George" [Soprano, Chorus]
  2:06
• 66
  King Arthur: Act 5 "Our Natives Not Alone Appear" [Chorus]
  1:06
• 67
  King Arthur: Act 5 Chaconne
  3:31
• 68
  The Fairy Queen: Prelude to Act 1
  2:42
• 69
  The Fairy Queen: Air
  2:11
• 70
  The Fairy Queen: Overture to Act 1
  1:29
• 71
  The Fairy Queen: Act 1 "Come, Let Us Leave the Town" [Soprano, Bass]
  1:14
• 72
  The Fairy Queen: Act 1 "Scene of the Drunken Poet" [First Fairy, Second Fairy, Drunken Poet, Chorus]
  6:07
• 73
  The Fairy Queen: Act 1 First Act Tune: Jig
  1:24
• 74
  The Fairy Queen: Act 2 "Come All Ye Songsters of the Sky" [Tenor]
  2:13
• 75
  The Fairy Queen: Act 2 "May the God of Wit Inspire" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass]
  2:48
• 76
  The Fairy Queen: Act 2 "Now Join Your Warbling Voices All" [Chorus]
  0:36
• 77
  The Fairy Queen: Act 2 "Sing While We Trip It" [Chorus, Soprano]
  3:58
• 78
  The Fairy Queen: Act 2 "See, Even Night Herself Is Here" [Night] "I Am Come to Lock All Fast" [Mystery] "One Charming Night" [Secrecy] "Hush, No More" [Sleep, Chorus]
  11:36
• 79
  The Fairy Queen: Act 2 Second Act Tune: Air
  2:18
• 80
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 "If Love's a Sweet Passion" [Dryad, Chorus]
  1:55
• 81
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 Symphony While the Swans Come Forward
  0:56
• 82
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 Dance for the Fairies
  1:24
• 83
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 Dance for the Green Men
  1:17
• 84
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air" [Soprano]
  4:47
• 85
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 "Now the Maids and the Men" [Coridon, Mopsa] Dance for the Haymakers
  4:39
• 86
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 "When I Have Often Heard" [Nymph]
  2:10
• 87
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 "A Thousand, Thousand Ways" [Chorus, Counter-Tenor]
  2:32
• 88
  The Fairy Queen: Act 3 Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
  1:02
• 89
  The Fairy Queen: Act 4 Symphony
  6:05
• 90
  The Fairy Queen: Act 4 "Now the Night Is Chased Away" [Attendant, Chorus]
  2:08
• 91
  The Fairy Queen: Act 4 "Let the Fifes and the Clarions" [Tenor, Counter-Tenor]
  1:15
• 92
  The Fairy Queen: Act 4 "When a Cruel Long Winter" [Phoebus]
  3:33
• 93
  The Fairy Queen: Act 4 "Hail! Great Parent of Us All" [Chorus]
  10:44
• 94
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 "Thrice Happy Lovers" [Juno]
  3:49
• 95
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 "O Let Me Ever, Ever Weep" [Soprano]
  7:55
• 96
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 "Thus the Gloomy World" [Chinese Man] "Thus Happy and Free" [Chinese Woman, Chorus] "Yes, Daphne" [Chinese Man]
  9:28
• 97
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 Monkey's Dance
  0:49
• 98
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 "Hark! How All Things" [First Woman] "Hark! the Echoing Air" [Second Woman, Chorus]
  4:27
• 99
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 "Sure the Dull God of Marriage" [First Woman, Second Woman, Chorus] Prelude "See, I Obey" [Hymen] "Turn Then Thine Eyes" [First Woman, Second Woman] "My Torch Indeed" [Hymen]
  5:21
• 100
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 Chaconne
  2:42
• 101
  The Fairy Queen: Act 5 "They Shall Be As Happy As They're Fair" [First Woman, Second Woman, Hymen, Chorus]
  2:02