tracks

Introductory Music (Prelude - Hornpipe - Air)
Act 1
Now, Good Egeus, What's The News With Thee? (Spoken Text)
Rondeau
Is All Our Company Here? (Spoken Text)
Overture
Come, Let Us Leave
Fill Up The Bowl
First Act Tune
Act 2
Tell Me, Fairies, Where's Our Queen? (Spoken Text)
Come All Ye Songsters Of The Sky
May The God Of Wit Inspire
Now Join Your Warbling
Dance For Fairies
Dance For The Followers Of Night
Night: See, Even Night Herself Is Here
Mystery: I Am Come To Lock All Fast
Secrecy: One Charming Night
Sleep: Hush, No More
Second Act Tune
Act 3
I Am Out Of Breath With Following Him So Fast (Spoken Text)
Are We All Met? (Spoken Text)
If Love's A Sweet Passion
Symphony While The Swans Come Forward
Third Act Tune
Ye Gentle Spirits Of The Air
Dialogue Between Coridon And Mopsa
When I Have Often Heard Young Maids Complaining
Dance For The Haymakers
A Thousand Ways We'll Find To Entertain The Hours
Act 4
Act Four Symphony
I Squeeze This Flower Of Purple Dye (Spoken Text)
Noe The Night Is Chas'd Away
Entry Of Phoebus
When A Cruel Long Winter Has Frozen The Earth
Spring: Thus The Ever Grateful Spring
Summer: Here's The Summer, Sprightly, Gay
Autumn: See My Many Colour'dFields
Winter: Next, Winter Comes Slowly
Fourth Act Tune
Act 5
Good Morrow, Friends, Saint Valentine's Is Past (Spoken Text)
Thrice Happy Lovers
O, Let Me Weep
Entry Dance
Adam: Thus The Gloomy World
Eve: Thus Happy And Free
Adam: Yes, Daphne
Monkeys' Dance
Hark! The Ech'ing Air A Triumph Sings
See, I Obey
Chaconne
Curtain Calls
They Shall Be As Happy As They're Fair
Staging The Fairy Queen - An Interview With Jonathan Kent
Music Of The Fairy Queen - An Interview With William Christie

notes

Recorded At Glyndebourne opera House, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom, 17 & 19 July 2009

credits

Chorus – The Glyndebourne Chorus,
Chorus Master [Assistant Chorus Master] – Oliver Gooch
Composed By – Henry Purcell
Conductor – William Christie
Directed By – Jonathan Kent
Leader – Alison Bury
Orchestra – Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Speech [Bottom] – Desmond Barrit
Speech [Changeling Boy] – Taliesin Knight
Speech [Demetrius] – Oliver Le Sueur
Speech [Egeus] – Terrence Hardiman
Speech [Flute] – Robert Burt
Speech [Helena] – Helen Bradbury
Speech [Hermia] – Susannah Wise
Speech [Lysander] – Oliver Kieran Jones,
Speech [Oberon] – Joseph Millson
Speech [Puck] – Jotham Annan
Speech [Quince] – Paul McCleary
Speech [Snout] – Jack Chissick
Speech [Snug] – Brian Pettifer
Speech [Starveling] – Roger Sloman
Speech [Theseus] – William Gaunt
Speech [Titania] – Sally Dexter
Vocals [Adam] – Ed Lyon,
Vocals [Autumn] – Adrian Ward
Vocals [Coridon] – Andrew Foster-Williams
Vocals [Drunken Poet] – Desmond Barrit
Vocals [Eve] – Helen-Jane Howells
Vocals [First Fairy] – Claire Debono
Vocals [Hymen] – Andrew Foster-Williams
Vocals [Juno] – Lucy Crowe
Vocals [Mopsa] – Robert Burt
Vocals [Mystery] – Claire Debono
Vocals [Night] – Carolyn Sampson
Vocals [Phoebus] – Lukas Kargl
Vocals [Second Fairy] – Anna Devin
Vocals [Secrecy] – Ed Lyon,
Vocals [Sleep] – Andrew Foster-Williams
Vocals [Spring] – Claire Debono
Vocals [Summer] – Sean Clayton
Vocals [Winter] – Andrew Foster-Williams

companies

Filmed At – Glyndebourne

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