Purcell edition volume 1 : dido & aeneas, king arthur & the fairy queen
(1995)
eMusic
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Warner Classics International : Made available through hoopla, 1995
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 23 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
825646919918 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT10899932, 10899932
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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)