tracks

1. Prelude
2. Hornpipe
3. Air
4. Rondeau
5. Ouverture
6. Song In Two Parts: "Come, Come, Come, Let Us Leave The Town"
7. Scene Of The Drunken Poet: "Fill Up The Bowl"
8. First Act Tune: Jig
9. Prelude And Song: "Come All Ye Songsters Of The Sky"
10. Prelude
11. Trio: "May The God Of Wit Inspire"
12. Echo
13a. Chorus: "Now Joyn Your Warbling Voices All"
13b. A Dance Of Fairies
13c. Song And Chorus: "Sing While We Trip It On The Green"
14. Song: "See, Even Night Her Self Is Here" (Night)
15. Song: "I Am Come To Lock All Fast (Mystery)
16.. Song: "One Charming Night" (Secresie)
17. Song And Chorus: "Hush, No More, Be Silent All" (Sleep)
18. A Dance For The Followers Of Night
19. Second Act Tune: Air
20. A Song In Two Parts And Chorus: "If Love's A Sweet Passion"
21. Ouverture: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward
22. Dance For The Fairies
23. Dance For The Green Men
24. Song: "Ye Gentle Spirits Of The Air, Appear"
25. Dialogue Between Coridon And Mopsa: "Now The Maids And The Men"
26. Song: "When I Have Often Heard" (A Nymph)
27. A Dance Of Haymakers
28. Song And Chorus: "A Thousand Thousand Ways We'll Find"
29. Thirs Act Tune: Hornpipe
30. Symphony
31. Solo And Chorus: "Now The Night Is Chac'd Away" (One Of The Attendants)
32. Duet: "Let The Fifes, And The Clarions" (Two Others)
33. Entry Of Phoebus
34. Song: "When A Cruel Long Winter" (Phoebus) 35. Chorus: "Hail! Great Parent Of Us All"
36. Song: "This The Ever Grateful Spring" (Spring)
37. Song: "Here's The Summer, Sprightly, Gay (Summer)
38. Song: "See My Many Colour's Fields" (Autumn)
39. Song And Chorus: "Now Winter Comes Slowly" (Winter)
40. Fourth Act Tune: Air
41.Prelude
42. Epithalamium: "Thrice Happy Love" (Juno)
43. The Plaint: "O Let Me Weep"
44. Entry Dance
45. Symphony
46. Song: "Thus The Gloomy World" (A Chinese Man)
47. Solo And Chorus: "Thus Happy And Free" (A Chinese Woman)
48. Song: "Yes Daphne, In Your Looks I Find" (Chinese Man)
49. Monkey's Dance
50. Song: "Hark How All Things" (1st Woman)
51. Song And Chorus: "Hark Now The Echoing Air" (2nd Woman)
52. Duet And Chorus: "Sure The Dull God Of Marriage" (Both Woman)
53. Prelude
54. Solo: "See, See, I Obey" (Hymen)
55. Duet "Turn Then Thine Eyes" (Both Woman)
56. Solo: "My Torch, Indeed" (Hymen)
57. Trio: They Shall Be Happy" (Both Woman, Hymen)
58. Air
59. Chorus: "They Shall Be As Happy"
60. Chaconne: Dance For Chinese Man And Woman

notes

℗ 1982 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
Made in the E.U.
CD 1 [69'04] • CD 2 [68'38]

Recorded at Stadthalle Göttingen 6/1981
Recorded in collaboration with West German Radio, Cologne, on the occasion of the Göttingen Händel Festival
DDD Digital Recordinng

credits

Alto Vocals [Choir] – Ashley Stafford, Brian Gordon (2), Christopher Robson, Julian Clarkson, Patrick Collin, Richard Baker (5)
Bass Vocals [Choir] – Charles Stewart (2), Christopher Green, Gordon Jones (2), Richard Lloyd Morgan, Richard Savage, Simon Birchall
Bassoon [Continuo] – Alastair Mitchell
Cello – Angela East
Cello [Continuo] – Timothy Mason
Choir – The Monteverdi Choir
Composed By – Henry Purcell
Engineer [Balance] – Heinz Wildhagen
Executive-Producer – Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Harpsichord [Continuo] – Alistair Ross,
Lute [Continuo] – Michael Lowe (5)
Oboe – David Reichenberg, Sophia McKenna
Orchestra – The English Baroque Soloists
Painting [Cover] – Henri Matisse
Recorder – David Pugsley, Rachel Beckett
Recording Supervisor – Barbara Valentin
Soprano Vocals [Choir] – Daryl Grene, Elisabeth Priday, Gillian Fisher, Jean Knibbs, Lyn Parkyns, Suzanne Flowers
Tenor Vocals [Choir] – Andrew Murgatroyd, Colin Mair, John Hugh Thomas, Neil Lunt, Tony Sargant, William Poole
Timpani – Charles Fullbrook
Trumpet – Crispian Steele-Perkins, David Staff
Viola – Annette Isserlis, Jan Schlapp, Rosemary Nalden
Violin – Alison Bury, Bill Turnell, Desmond Heath, Hildburg Williams, Julie Miller (2), Nicola Cleminson, Roy Goodman, Roy Mowatt
Violin, Concertmistress – Elizabeth Wilcock
Violone [Continuo] – Amanda McNamara

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Recorded At – Stadthalle Göttingen

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