Gabrieli Consort
Purcell - The Fairy Queen, 1692
- Type CD
- Label Signum Classics
- UPC 0635212061527
- Catalog number SIGCD 615
- Release date 27 March 2020
About the album
Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play not frequently performed in the late 17th century, nor very well regarded (“the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life” - Samuel Pepys’ diary, 1662). Despite this, the play would go on to work well within an opera, as the characters of Pyramus and Thisbe could conjure up singing and dancing accomplices. Purcell’s masterful composition, Gabrieli’s first-class performance, and McCreesh’s superb interpretation demonstrate why their recordings are seen as some of the best in classical music today.
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11The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude
01:41 -
12The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Hornpipe
01:01 -
13The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Air
01:22 -
14The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Rondeau
01:36 -
15The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Overture
01:32 -
16The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – Come, Let Us Leave the Town
02:43 -
17The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Scene of the Drunken Poet (Two Fairies, Poet & Chorus)
06:18 -
18The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Jig
01:08 -
19The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – Come All Ye Songsters
02:09 -
110The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Symphony in Imitation of Birds
01:17 -
111The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – May The God of Wit Inspire
01:18 -
112The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Symphony in Imitation of an Echo
01:52 -
113The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Chorus – Now Join Your Warbling Voices All
00:33 -
114The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song, Chorus & Dance – Sing While We Trip It (Fairy)
02:11 -
115The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – See, Even Night Herself is Here (Night)
05:06 -
116The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – I Am Come to Lock All Fast (Mystery)
01:38 -
117The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – One Charming Night (Secrecy)
02:26 -
118The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song & Chorus – Hush, No More (Sleep)
04:15 -
119The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Dance For the Followers of Night
01:40 -
120The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Second Act Tune – Air
01:35 -
121The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude, Song & Chorus – If Love’s a Sweet Passion (Nymph & Fawn)
05:23 -
122The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Symphony While the Swans Come Forward
02:22 -
123The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Dance for the Fairies
00:42 -
124The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Dance for the Green Men
01:39 -
125The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air (Nymph)
05:37 -
126The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Dialogue – Now the Maids and the Men are Making of Hay (Coridon & Mopsa)
03:49 -
127The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Dance for the Haymakers
00:54 -
128The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – When I Have Often Heard Young Maids Complaining (Nymph)
02:30 -
129The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song & Chorus – A Thousand, Thousand Ways
02:03 -
130The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Third Act Tune – Hornpipe
01:08 -
21The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Symphony – Prelude / Canzona / Largo / Allegro / Adagio / Allegro
06:12 -
22The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song & Chorus – Now the Night is Chas’d Away
02:04 -
23The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – Let the Fifes and the Clarions (2nd & 3rd Attendants)
02:04 -
24The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Symphony for the Entry of Phoebus
00:33 -
25The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – When a Cruel Long Winter (Phoebus)
02:52 -
26The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Chorus – Hail! Great Parent of us All (I)
02:01 -
27The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – Thus the Ever Grateful Spring (Spring)
02:00 -
28The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – Here’s The Summer (Summer)
01:48 -
29The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – See my Many Colour’d Fields (Autumn)
03:15 -
210The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – Next, Winter Comes Slowly (Winter)
02:38 -
211The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Chorus – Hail! Great Parent of us All (II)
02:05 -
212The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Fourth Act Tune – Air
01:15 -
213The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Interlude – O Let Me Weep (The Plaint)
07:52 -
214The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude & Song – Thrice Happy Lovers (Juno)
04:10 -
215The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Entry Dance
01:25 -
216The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Symphony
01:05 -
217The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – Thus the Gloomy World (Chinese Man)
04:50 -
218The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude, Song & Chorus – Thus Happy And Free (Chinese Woman)
01:16 -
219The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – Yes, Daphne (Chinese Man)
02:38 -
220The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Dance for the Monkeys
01:01 -
221The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – Hark How All Things With One Sound Rejoice (2nd Woman)
02:07 -
222The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song & Chorus – Hark The Echoing Air a Triumph Sings (1st Woman)
02:27 -
223The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song & Chorus – Sure the Dull God of Marriage / Hymen Appear (1st & 2nd Women)
03:01 -
224The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Prelude as Hymen Enters
00:47 -
225The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – See, I Obey / Turn Then Thine Eyes / My Torch, Indeed (Hymen & 1st & 2nd Women)
04:07 -
226The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Song – They Shall be as Happy as They’re Fair (1st & 2nd Women)
02:10 -
227The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Suckling/McCreesh Edition) Dance for Chinese Man & Woman – Chaconne
02:40