The Fairy Queen

The Fairy Queen

Album
Label Collins Classics Release date Format 2×CD Country 🇺🇸 United States

Tracklist 132:22

CD 1

1 First Musick: Prelude 1:50
2 First Musick: Hornpipe 0:54
3 Second Musick: Air 0:52
4 Second Musick: Rondeau 1:36
5 Second Musick: Overture 1:25
6 Act 1: Duet: Come let us leave the town 2:55
7 Act 1: Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the bowl 6:12
8 Act 1: First Act Tune: Jig 1:13
9 Act 2: Prelude: Come all ye songsters of the sky 2:03
10 Act 2: Prelude, Choral Trio: May the God of Wit inspire 4:16
11 Act 2: Chorus: Now join your warbling voices all 0:29
12 Act 2: Soprano Solo: Sing while we trip it 2:06
13 Act 2: Night: See, even Night herself is here 4:38
14 Act 2: Mystery: I am come to lock all fast 1:11
15 Act 2: Secrecy: One charming night 2:25
16 Act 2: Sleep, Chorus: Hush, no more 4:03
17 Act 2: Dance for the Followers of Night 1:15
18 Act 2: Second Act Tune: Air 1:15
19 Act 3: Soprano Solo, Chorus: If love's a sweet passion 4:26
20 Act 3: Symphony while the swans come forward 1:48
21 Act 3: Dance for the Fairies 0:52
22 Act 3: Dance for the Green Men 1:39
23 Act 3: Soprano Solo: Ye gentle spirits of the air 5:24
24 Act 3: Dialogue Between Coridon and Mopsa: Now the maids and the men 3:49
25 Act 3: Dance for the Haymakers 0:54
26 Act 3: A Nymph: When I have often heard 3:08
27 Act 3: Duet, Chorus: A thousand, thousand ways 2:39
28 Act 3: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe 1:00

CD 2

1 Act 4: Symphony 6:17
2 Act 4: An Attendant, Chorus: Now the night is chased away 2:02
3 Act 4: Duet: Let the fifes and the clarions 1:24
4 Act 4: Entry of Phoebus 0:36
5 Act 4: Phoebus: When a cruel long winter 2:42
6 Act 4: Chorus: Hail! Great parent of us all 1:56
7 Act 4: Spring: Thus the ever grateful spring 2:19
8 Act 4: Summer: Here's the summer, sprightly, gay 1:44
9 Act 4: Autumn: See my many coloured fields 2:22
10 Act 4: Winter: Next winter comes slowly 2:26
11 Act 4: Hail! Great Parent of us all 1:01
12 Act 4: Fourth Act Tune: Air 1:09
13 Act 5: Prelude 1:09
14 Act 5: Juno: Thrice happy lovers 2:48
15 Act 5: The Plaint: O let me ever, ever weep 7:07
16 Act 5: Entry Dance 1:16
17 Act 5: Symphony 1:15
18 Act 5: A Chinese Man: Thus the gloomy world 4:35
19 Act 5: A Chinese Woman, Chorus: Thus happy and free 1:29
20 Act 5: A Chinese Man: Yes, Xansi 2:17
21 Act 5: Monkey's Dance 0:48
22 Act 5: A Chinese Woman: Hark! now all things 2:08
23 Act 5: A Chinese Woman: Hark! The echoing air 2:43
24 Act 5: Two Chinese Women: Sure the dull God of Marriage 2:33
25 Act 5: Prelude 0:32
26 Act 5: Hymen: See, see I obey 4:11
27 Act 5: Two Chinese Women, Hymen: They shall be as happy as they're fair 1:02
28 Act 5: Chaconne: Dance for the Chinese man and woman 2:43
29 Act 5: Chorus: They shall be as happy as they're fair 1:17