Purcell edition volume 1 : dido & aeneas, king arthur & the fairy queen
(1995)

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Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Warner Classics International : Made available through hoopla, 1995
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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 23 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
825646919918 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT10899932, 10899932
LANGUAGE
English
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Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Dido & Aeneas : Overture (1:53) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Shake the cloud from off your brow" [Belinda, Chorus] (1:03) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Ah Belinda, I am press'd with torment" [Dido] (3:38) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Grief increases by concealing" [Belinda, Dido] "When monarchs unite, how happy their state" [Chorus] (0:42) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Whence could so much virtue spring?" [Dido, Belinda] (1:55) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Fear no danger to ensue" [Belinda, Chorus] (1:33) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act I "See our royal guest appears" [Belinda, Aeneas] "Cupid only throws the dart" [Chorus] (1:10) -- 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) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act I "The Triumphing Dance" (1:10) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 Prelude for the Witches "Wayward sisters, you that fright" [Sorceress] "Harm's our delight" [Chorus] (2:14) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "The Queen of Carthage" ... "Ho! ho! ho!" [Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus] (1:53) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "But ere we this perform" [First Witch, Second Witch] (1:10) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 1 "In our deep vaulted cell... Echo Dance of Furies" [Chorus] (2:22) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Ritornelle" "Thanks to these lonesome vales" [Belinda, Chorus] (3:36) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Oft she visits this lone mountain" [Second Woman] (1:56) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Behold upon my bending spear" [Aeneas, Dido] "Haste, haste to town" [Belinda, Chorus] (1:14) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Stay Prince" [Spirit, Aeneas] (2:04) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Then since our chorus have sped" [Chorus] "The Grove's Dance" (1:24) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Come away" [Sailor, Chorus] "The Sailors' Dance" (2:24) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "See, see the flags" [Sorceress, First Witch] "Our next motion" [Sorceress] (1:41) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Destruction's our delight" [Chorus] (0:31) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "The Witches' Dance" (1:35) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Your counsel all is urged in vain" [Dido, Belinda, Aeneas] (3:35) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Great minds against themselves conspire" [Chorus] "Thy hand, Belinda" [Dido] (2:03) -- Dido & Aeneas, Act 3: "When I am laid in earth" (Dido) (3:54) -- Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "With drooping wings" [Chorus] (2:42) -- King Arthur : Overture to Act 1 (1:58) -- King Arthur : Air (1:32) -- King Arthur : Act 1 "Woden, first to thee" [Bass, Chorus] (2:50) -- King Arthur : Act 1 "The white horse neigh'd aloud" [Bass, Tenor, Chorus] (1:22) -- King Arthur : Act 1 "The lot is cast, and Tanfan pleas'd" [Soprano] (0:33) -- King Arthur : Act 1 "Brave souls, to be renown'd in story" [Chorus] (2:47) -- King Arthur : Act 1 "I call you all to Woden's Hall" [Tenor, Chorus] (2:06) -- King Arthur : Act 1 "Come if you dare" [Tenor, Chorus] (4:10) -- King Arthur : Act 2 "Hither, this way, this way bend" [Soprano, Chorus] (2:12) -- King Arthur : Act 2 "Let not a moonborn elf mislead ye" [Bass] "Hither this way, this way bend" [Chorus] (1:53) -- King Arthur : Act 2 "Come, follow me" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus] (2:22) -- King Arthur : Act 2 "How blest are shepherds" [Tenor, Chorus] (5:17) -- King Arthur : Act 2 "Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying" [Sopranos] (1:55) -- King Arthur : Act 2 "Come, shepherds, lead up a lively measure" [Chorus] Hornpipe (1:39) -- King Arthur : Air (1:01) -- King Arthur : Act 3 Prelude (0:31) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "What ho! thou genius of this isle" [Soprano] (0:59) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "What power art thou" [Bass] (4:08) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "Thou doting fool" [Soprano] (0:37) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "Great love, I know thee now" [Bass] (0:55) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "No part of my dominion" [Soprano] (0:56) -- King Arthur : Act 3 Prelude (0:44) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "See, see, we assemble" [Chorus] Dance (1:28) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "Tis I that have warm'd ye" [Soprano] "Tis love that has warm'd us" [Chorus] (1:59) -- King Arthur : Act 3 "Sound a parley" [Soprano, Bass] "Tis Love that has warm'd us" [Chorus] (4:01) -- King Arthur : Act 3 Hornpipe (0:46) -- King Arthur : Act 4 "Two daughters of this aged stream are we" [Sopranos] (2:33) -- 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) -- King Arthur : Act 4 Air (0:42) -- King Arthur : Act 5 Trumpet Tune (0:47) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies" [Bass] (3:24) -- King Arthur : Act 5 Symphony (1:42) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "Round thy coast" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus] (3:21) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "For folded flocks, and fruitful plains" [Tenors, Bass] (2:00) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "Your hay it is mow'd" [Bass, Chorus] (2:27) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "Fairest Isle" [Soprano] (4:43) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "You say 'tis Love" [Soprano, Bass] (5:27) -- King Arthur : Act 5 Trumpet Tune - Warlike Consort (0:37) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "Saint George" [Soprano, Chorus] (2:06) -- King Arthur : Act 5 "Our natives not alone appear" [Chorus] (1:07) -- King Arthur : Act 5 Chaconne (3:31) -- The Fairy Queen : Prelude to Act 1 (2:42) -- The Fairy Queen : Air (2:11) -- The Fairy Queen : Overture to Act 1 (1:29) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Come, let us leave the town" [Soprano, Bass] (1:14) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Scene of the Drunken Poet" [First Fairy, Second Fairy, Drunken Poet, Chorus] (6:07) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 1 Jig (1:24) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Come all ye songsters of the sky" [Tenor] (2:14) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "May the God of Wit inspire" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass] (2:48) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Now join your warbling voices all" [Chorus] (0:36) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Sing while we trip it" [Chorus, Soprano] (3:58) -- 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] (00:11:36) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 Air (2:18) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "If love's a sweet passion" [Dryad, Chorus] (1:55) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Symphony while the swans come forward (0:56) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Dance for the Fairies (1:24) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Dance for the Green Men (1:17) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "Ye gentle spirits of the air" [Soprano] (4:47) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "Now the maids and the men" [Coridon, Mopsa] Dance for the Haymakers (4:39) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "When I have often heard" [Nymph] (2:10) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "A thousand, thousand ways" [Chorus, Counter-Tenor] (2:32) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Hornpipe (1:02) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 4 Symphony (6:05) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Now the night is chased away" [Attendant, Chorus] (2:08) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Let the fifes and the clarions" [Tenor, Counter-Tenor] (1:15) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "When a cruel long winter" [Phoebus] (3:33) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Hail! Great parent of us all" [Chorus] (00:10:44) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Thrice happy lovers" [Juno] (3:49) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "O let me ever, ever weep" [Soprano] (7:56) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Thus the gloomy world" [Chinese Man] "Thus happy and free" [Chinese Woman, Chorus] "Yes, Daphne" [Chinese Man] (9:28) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 5 Monkey's Dance (0:49) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Hark! How all things" [First Woman] "Hark! the echoing air" [Second Woman, Chorus] (4:28) -- 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) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 5 Chaconne (2:42) -- The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "They shall be as happy as they're fair" [First Woman, Second Woman, Hymen, Chorus] (2:02)

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