Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - The Fairy Queen (2 CD)

1 The fairy queen z.629 - prelude
2 Hornpipe
3 Air
4 Rondeau
5 Overture
6 Come, let us leave the town
7 Scene of the drunken poet
8 Jig
9 Come all ye songsters
10 Symphony in imitation of birds
11 May the god of wit inspire
12 Symphony in imitation of an echo
13 Chorus: now join your warbling voices
14 Sing while we trip it
15 See, even night herself is here
16 I am come to lock all fast
17 One charming night
18 Hush, no more
19 Dance for the followers of night
20 Second act tune - air
21 If love's a sweet passion
22 Symphony while the swans come forward
23 Dance for the fairies
24 Dance for the green men
25 Ye gentle spirits of the air
26 Prelude & dialogue: now the maids and the men are making of
27 Dance for the haymakers
28 When i have often heard young maids complaining
29 A thousand, thousand ways
30 Third act tune - hornpipe
1 Symphony/prelude/canzona/largo/allegro/adagio/allegro
2 Now the night is chas'd away
3 Let the fifes and the clarions
4 Symphony for the entry of phoebus
5 When a cruel long winter
6 Hail! great parent of us all
7 Thus the ever greatful spring
8 Here's the summer
9 See my many colour'd fields
10 Next winter comes slowly
11 Hail! great parent of us all (ii)
12 Fourth act tune - air
13 Interlude - o let me weep
14 Thrice happy lovers
15 Entry dance
16 Symphony
17 Thus the gloomy world
18 Thus happy and free
19 Yes, daphne
20 Dance for the monkeys
21 Hark how all things with one sound rejoice
22 Hark the echoing air a triumph sings
23 Sure the dull god of marriage
24 Prelude as hymen enters
25 See i obey / turn then thine eyes / my torch, indeed
26 They shall be as happy as they're fair
27 Dance for the chinese man & woman - chaconne