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, Trio: "May The God Of Wit Inspire"
11. Chorus: "Now Joyn Your Warbling Voices All"
12. Song And Chorus: "Sing While We Trip It On The Green"
13. Song: "See, Even Night Her Self Is Here" (Night)
14. Song: "I Am Come To Lock All Fast (Mystery)
15. Song: "One Charming Night" (Secresie)
16. Song And Chorus: "Hush, No More, Be Silent All" (Sleep)
17. A Dance For The Followers Of Night
18. Second Act Tune: Air
19. A Song In Two Parts And Chorus: "If Love's A Sweet Passion"
20. Ouverture: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward
21. Dance For The Fairies
22. Dance For The Green Men
23. Song: "Ye Gentle Spirits Of The Air, Appear"
24. Dialogue Between Coridon And Mopsa: "Now The Maids And The Men"
25. A Dance For The Haymakers
26. Song: "When I Have Often Heard" (A Nymph)
27. Song And Chorus: "A Thousand Thousand Ways We'll Find"
28. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
1. Symphony
2. Solo And Chorus: "Now The Night Is Chased Away" (One Of The Attendants)
3. Duet: "Let The Fifes, And The Clarions" (Two Others)
4. Entry Of Phoebus
5. Song: "When A Cruel Long Winter" (Phoebus)
6. Chorus: "Hail! Great Parent Of Us All"
7. Song: "Thus The Ever Grateful Spring" (Spring)
8. Song: "Here's The Summer, Sprightly, Gay (Summer)
9. Song: "See My Many Colour's Fields" (Autumn)
10. Song And Chorus: "Now Winter Comes Slowly" (Winter)
11. Chorus: "Hail! Great Parent Of Us All"
12. Fourth Act Tune: Air
13.Prelude
14. Epithalamium: "Thrice Happy Love" (Juno)
15. The Plaint: "O Let Me Weep"
16. Entry Dance
17. Symphony
18. Song: "Thus The Gloomy World" (A Chinese Man)
19. Solo And Chorus: "Thus Happy And Free" (A Chinese Woman)
20. Song: "Yes Xansi, In Your Looks I Find" (Chinese Man)
21. Monkey's Dance
22. Song: "Hark How All Things" (1st Woman)
23. Song And Chorus: "Hark Now The Echoing Air" (2nd Woman)
24. Duet And Chorus: "Sure The Dull God Of Marriage" (Both Woman)
25. Prelude
26. Solo: "See, See, I Obey" (Hymen)
27. Trio: They Shall Be Happy" (Both Woman, Hymen)
28. Chaconne: Dance For Chinese Man And Woman
29. Chorus: "They Shall Be As Happy"

notes

© The Sixteen Productions 2002
â„— The Sixteen Productions 2002
Made in Great Britain

Recorded October 1990, St. Bartholomew's Church, Orford, Suffolk, England
Recorded from the Novello Purcell Society Edition at pitch A=415

credits

Bass Vocals – Michael George (3), Richard Suart
Composed By – Henry Purcell
Conductor – Harry Christophers
Countertenor Vocals – Michael Chance
Design – ATX Design
Engineer [Balance] – Antony Howell
Harpsichord [Continuo] – Paul Nicholson
Liner Notes – Bruce Wood (2)
Orchestra, Chorus – The Sixteen
Producer – Mark Brown (4)
Soprano Vocals – Ann Murray, Gillian Fisher, Lorna Anderson
Tenor Vocals – Ian Partridge, John Mark Ainsley

companies

Copyright (c) – The Sixteen Productions
Phonographic Copyright (p) – The Sixteen Productions
Recorded At – St. Bartholomew's Church, Orford

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