The Fairy Queen / Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell; Jennifer Vyvyan, Dame Janet Baker, Peter Pears, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Steuart Bedford 2001

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# Title Length
Digital Media 1
1 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: Symphony 6:53
2 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “Now the Night Is Chas’d Away” 2:42
3 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “Let the Fifes and the Clarions… Dance” 2:05
4 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “When a Cruel Long Winter” 2:50
5 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “Hail! Great Parent of Us All” (reprise) 2:16
6 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “Thus the Ever Grateful Spring” 2:48
7 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “Here’s the Summer, Sprightly Gay” 1:14
8 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “See, My Many‐Coloured Fields” 3:01
9 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “Next, Winter Comes Slowly, Pale” 2:58
10 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: “Hail! Great Parent of Us All” 2:18
11 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: Prelude…“Come, All Ye Songsters of the Sky” 2:32
12 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: “The Songsters… May the God of Wit Inspire” 1:57
13 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: “Echo… Now Join Your Warbling Voices All” 2:14
14 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Fill Up the Bowl (Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears) 6:37
15 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: “See, Even Night Herself Is Here” 5:24
16 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: “I Am Come to Lock All Fast” 0:42
17 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: “One Charming Night” 2:15
18 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: “Hush, No More” 4:04
19 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: Dance for the Followers of Night 1:27
20 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: Overture 1:44
21 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: “If Love’s a Sweet Passion… I Press Her Hand” 2:40
22 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: “O Let Me Weep, for Ever Weep” 7:50
23 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: “Now the Maids and the Men Are Making of Hay” 3:43
24 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: A Dance of Haymakers 0:55
25 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: “A Thousand, Thousand Ways” 3:06
26 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: Hornpipe and Rondeau 2:33
Digital Media 2
1 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: Symphony 1:28
2 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: “Hark! Hark the Echoing Air” 2:29
3 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: “Sure the Dull God of Marriage” 2:25
4 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: “See, I Obey” 1:50
5 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: “Turn Then Thine Eyes” 1:10
6 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: “My Torch Indeed… They Shall Be as Happy” 2:57
7 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: Chaconne 3:33
8 The Fairy Queen, Z.629 – Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: “They Shall Be as Happy” 0:55
9 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 1: Overture 2:17
10 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 1: “Shake the Cloud From Off Your Brow” 1:09
11 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 1: “Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest” 5:15
12 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 1: “Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?” 2:06
13 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 1: “Fear No Danger to Ensue” 1:36
14 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 1: “See Your Royal Guest Appears” 5:13
15 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 1: Prelude for the Witches – “Wayward Sisters” 3:19
16 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 1: “Ruin’d Ere the Set of Sun?” 5:28
17 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 2: Ritornelle – “Thanks to These Lonesome Dales” 3:44
18 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 2: “Oft She Visits This Lov’d Mountain” 2:29
19 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 2: “Behold, Upon My Bending Spear” 1:20
20 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 2: “Stay, Prince, and Hear Great Jove’s Command” 6:05
21 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 3: Prelude – “Come Away, Fellow Sailors” 2:17
22 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 3: “See the Flags and Streamers Curling” 3:19
23 Dido and Aeneas – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten – Act 3: “Your Counsel All Is Urg’d in Vain” 3:40
24 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 3: “But Death, Alas!… When I Am Laid in Earth” 6:29
25 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 – Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 3: “With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come” 4:59

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