Album lyrics Purcell : The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell feat. Barbara Bonney, Sylvia McNair, Michael Chance, Robert Holl, Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus musicus Wien

Purcell : The Fairy Queen

Henry Purcell feat. Barbara Bonney, Sylvia McNair, Michael Chance, Robert Holl, Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus musicus Wien

1. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Prelude to Act 1

2. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Air

3. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Overture to Act 1

4. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Come, let us leave the town" [Soprano, Bass]

5. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Scene of the Drunken Poet" [First Fairy, Second Fairy, Drunken Poet, Chorus]

6. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 1 Jig

7. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Come all ye songsters of the sky" [Tenor]

8. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "May the God of Wit inspire" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass]

9. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Now join your warbling voices all" [Chorus]

10. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Sing while we trip it" [Chorus, Soprano]

11. Purcell : 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]

12. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 2 Air

13. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "If love's a sweet passion" [Dryad, Chorus]

14. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Symphony while the swans come forward

15. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Dance for the Fairies

16. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Dance for the Green Men

17. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "Ye gentle spirits of the air" [Soprano]

18. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "Now the maids and the men" [Coridon, Mopsa] Dance for the Haymakers

19. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "When I have often heard" [Nymph]

20. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "A thousand, thousand ways" [Chorus, Counter-Tenor]

21. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 3 Hornpipe

22. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 Symphony

23. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Now the night is chased away" [Attendant, Chorus]

24. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Let the fifes and the clarions" [Tenor, Counter-Tenor]

25. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "When a cruel long winter" [Phoebus]

26. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 4 "Hail! Great parent of us all" [Chorus]

27. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Thrice happy lovers" [Juno]

28. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "O let me ever, ever weep" [Soprano]

29. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Thus the gloomy world" [Chinese Man] "Thus happy and free" [Chinese Woman, Chorus] "Yes, Daphne" [Chinese Man]

30. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 Monkey's Dance

31. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "Hark! How all things" [First Woman] "Hark! the echoing air" [Second Woman, Chorus]

32. Purcell : 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]

33. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 Chaconne

34. Purcell : The Fairy Queen : Act 5 "They shall be as happy as they're fair" [First Woman, Second Woman, Hymen, Chorus]