Purcell: The Fairy Queen

Sylvia McNair



  • 1The Fairy Queen: Prelude to Act 1
  • 2The Fairy Queen: Air
  • 3The Fairy Queen: Overture to Act 1
  • 4The Fairy Queen, Act 1: "Come, Let Us Leave the Town" (Soprano, Bass)
  • 5The Fairy Queen, Act 1: "Scene of the Drunken Poet" (First Fairy, Second Fairy, Drunken Poet, Chorus)
  • 6The Fairy Queen, Act 1: Jig
  • 7The Fairy Queen, Act 2: "Come All Ye Songsters of the Sky" (Tenor)
  • 8The Fairy Queen, Act 2: "May the God of Wit Inspire" (Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass)
  • 9The Fairy Queen, Act 2: "Now Join Your Warbling Voices All" (Chorus)
  • 10The Fairy Queen, Act 2: "Sing While We Trip It" (Chorus, Soprano)
  • 11The Fairy Queen, Act 2: "See, Even Night Herself Is Here" (Night] "I Am Come to Lock All Fast" [Mystery] "One Charming Night" (Secrecy) "Hush, No More" [Sleep, Chorus]
  • 12The Fairy Queen, Act 2: Air
  • 13The Fairy Queen, Act 3: "If Love's a Sweet Passion" (Dryad, Chorus)
  • 14The Fairy Queen, Act 3: Symphony While the Swans Come Forward
  • 15The Fairy Queen, Act 3: Dance for the Fairies
  • 16The Fairy Queen, Act 3: Dance for the Green Men
  • 17The Fairy Queen, Act 3: "Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air" (Soprano)
  • 18The Fairy Queen, Act 3: "Now the Maids and the Men" (Coridon, Mopsa) Dance for the Haymakers
  • 19The Fairy Queen, Act 3: "When I Have Often Heard" (Nymph)
  • 20The Fairy Queen, Act 3: "A Thousand, Thousand Ways" (Chorus, Counter-Tenor)
  • 21The Fairy Queen, Act 3: Hornpipe
  • 22The Fairy Queen, Act 4: Symphony
  • 23The Fairy Queen, Act 4: "Now the Night Is Chased Away" (Attendant, Chorus)
  • 24The Fairy Queen, Act 4: "Let the Fifes and the Clarions" (Tenor, Counter-Tenor)
  • 25The Fairy Queen, Act 4: "When a Cruel Long Winter" (Phoebus)
  • 26The Fairy Queen, Act 4: "Hail! Great Parent of Us All" (Chorus)
  • 27The Fairy Queen, Act 5: "Thrice Happy Lovers" (Juno)
  • 28The Fairy Queen, Act 5: "O Let Me Ever, Ever Weep" (Soprano)
  • 29The Fairy Queen, Act 5: "Thus the Gloomy World" (Chinese Man) "Thus Happy and Free" [Chinese Woman, Chorus] "Yes, Daphne" [Chinese Man]
  • 30The Fairy Queen, Act 5: Monkey's Dance
  • 31The Fairy Queen, Act 5: "Hark! How All Things" (First Woman) "Hark! the Echoing Air" [Second Woman, Chorus]
  • 32The Fairy Queen, Act 5: "Sure the Dull God of Marriage" (First Woman, Second Woman, Chorus] Prelude "See: I Obey" [Hymen] "Turn Then Thine Eyes" [First Woman, Second Woman) "My Torch Indeed" [Hymen]
  • 33The Fairy Queen, Act 5: Chaconne
  • 34The Fairy Queen, Act 5: "They Shall Be As Happy As They're Fair" (First Woman, Second Woman, Hymen, Chorus)
    • 1995 Teldec Classics International GmbH