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The Fairy Queen
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Symphony
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Now The Night Is Chas'd Away (Attendant)
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Let The Fifes And The Clarions ... Dance (Attendants) - Dance
Part I Oberon's Birthday: When A Cruel Long Winter (Phoebus)
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Hail! Great Parent Of Us All (Chorus)
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Thus The Ever Grateful Spring (Spring)
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Here's The Summer, Sprightly Gay (Summer)
Part I Oberon's Birthday: See, My Many-coloured Fields (Autumn)
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Next, Winter Comes Slowly, Pale (Winter)
Part I Oberon's Birthday: Hail! Great Parent Of Us All (Chorus)
Part II Night And Silence: Prelude - Come, All Ye Songsters Of The Sky (Fairy-Spirit)
Part II Night And Silence: The Songsters ... May The God Of Wit Inspire (Fairy-Spirits)
Part II Night And Silence: Echo ... Now Join Your Warbling Voices All (Chorus)
Part II Night And Silence: Fill Up The Bowl (Drunken Poet)
Part II Night And Silence: See, Even Night Herself Is Here (Night)
Part II Night And Silence: I Am Come To Lock All Fast (Mystery)
Part II Night And Silence: One Charming Night (Secrecy)
Part II Night And Silence: Hush, No More (Sleep)
Part II Night And Silence: Dance For The Followers Of Night
Part III The Sweet Passion: Overture
Part III The Sweet Passion: If Love's A Sweet Passion ... I Press Her Hand (Shepherd)
Part III The Sweet Passion: O Let Me Weep, For Ever Weep (Nymph)
Part III The Sweet Passion: Now The Maids And The Men Are Making Of Hay (Coridon)
Part III The Sweet Passion: A Dance Of Haymakers
Part III The Sweet Passion: A Thousand, Thousand Ways (Shepherd)
Part III The Sweet Passion: Hornpipe And Rondeau
Part IV Epithalamium: Symphony
Part IV Epithalamium: Hark! Hark The Echoing Air (Attendant)
Part IV Epithalamium: Sure The Dull God Of Marriage (Attendants)
Part IV Epithalamium: See, I Obey (Hymen)
Part IV Epithalamium: Turn Then Thine Eyes (Attendants)
Part IV Epithalamium: My Torch Indeed ... They Shall Be As Happy (Hymen, Attendants)
Part IV Epithalamium: Chaconne
Part IV Epithalamium: They Shall Be As Happy (Chorus)
The Tempest (excerpts)
I Arise Ye Subterranean Winds (bass)
II Aeolus, You Must Appear (bass)
III Your Awful Voice I Hear (tenor)
IV Halcyon Days (soprano)
V See, See The Heavens Smile (tenor)
Sonata For Trumpet And Strings
The Virtuous Wife
March - Minuet I - Minuet II
Dioclesian
What shall I do? (soprano)
Ciacona in G minor

notes

Recording Locations: Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, UK, 18-21 September 1970 (The Fairy Queen);
London, UK, 1958 (The Tempest, Sonata, The Virtuous Wife, Dioclesian, Ciacona)

credits

Composed By – Henry Purcell

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Decca Music Group Limited
Copyright (c) – Decca Music Group Limited

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