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
℗ 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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