{"product_id":"les-arts-florissants-christie-william-purcell-dido-aeneas-the-fairy-queen","title":"Les Arts Florissants: Purcell: Dido \u0026 Aeneas, the Fairy Queen - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePurcell: Dido \u0026amp; Aeneas, the Fairy Queen\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eLes Arts Florissants\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eHarmonia Mundi\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e3149020951637\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2024-06-21\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e3\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eAdditional Details: \u003c\/b\u003eBOXED SET\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         In the late 1980s, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded galvanizing versions of two masterpieces of early English opera: Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. These two seminal interpretations are now available again, coupled for the first time in a single boxed set.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Dido and Aeneas~Overture \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Solo and Chorus: Shake the cloud \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Song: Ah! Belinda, I am prest \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: Grief increases by concealing \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus: When monarchs unite \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: Whence could so much virtue spring? \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Duet and Chorus: Fear no danger to ensue \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: See, your Royal Guest appears \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus: Cupid only throws the dart \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: If not for mine \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Air: Pursue thy conquest \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus: To the hills and the vales \u003cbr\u003e1.13 Dido and Aeneas~Act I. The Triumphing Dance \u003cbr\u003e1.14 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Prelude for the Witches: Wayward Sisters, you that fright \u003cbr\u003e1.15 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus: Harm's our delight \u003cbr\u003e1.16 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative: The Queen of Carthage \u003cbr\u003e1.17 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho! \/ Recitative: Ruin'd ere the set of sun \u003cbr\u003e1.18 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Duet: But ere we this perform \u003cbr\u003e1.19 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus: In our deep vaulted cell \u003cbr\u003e1.20 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Echo Dance of Furies \u003cbr\u003e1.21 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Ritornelle \u003cbr\u003e1.22 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song and Chorus: Thanks to these lonesome vales \u003cbr\u003e1.23 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song: Oft she visits this lone mountain \u003cbr\u003e1.24 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative: Behold, upon my bending spear \u003cbr\u003e1.25 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song and Chorus: Haste, haste to town \u003cbr\u003e1.26 Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative: Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command \u003cbr\u003e1.27 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Prelude \u003cbr\u003e1.28 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Solo and Chorus: Come away, fellow sailors \u003cbr\u003e1.29 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Recitative: See the flags and streamers curling \u003cbr\u003e1.30 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Song: Our next motion \u003cbr\u003e1.31 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Chorus: Destruction's our delight \u003cbr\u003e1.32 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. The Witche's Dance \u003cbr\u003e1.33 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Recitative: Your counsel all is urged in vain \u003cbr\u003e1.34 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Chorus: Great minds against themselves conspire \u003cbr\u003e1.35 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Recitative: Thy hand, Belinda \u003cbr\u003e1.36 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Song: When I am laid in earth \u003cbr\u003e1.37 Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Chorus: With drooping wings ye Cupids come \u003cbr\u003e2.1 Fairy Queen~First Musick. 1. Prelude \u003cbr\u003e2.2 Fairy Queen~First Musick. 2. Hornpipe \u003cbr\u003e2.3 Fairy Queen~Second Musick. 3. Air \u003cbr\u003e2.4 Fairy Queen~Second Musick. 4. Rondeau \u003cbr\u003e2.5 Fairy Queen~Second Musick. 5. Overture \u003cbr\u003e2.6 Fairy Queen~Act I. 6. Duet: Come, let us leave the town \u003cbr\u003e2.7 Fairy Queen~Act I. 7. Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the bowl \u003cbr\u003e2.8 Fairy Queen~Act I. 8. First Act Tune: Jig \u003cbr\u003e2.9 Fairy Queen~Act II. 9. Come all ye songsters \u003cbr\u003e2.10 Fairy Queen~Act II. 10. Prelude \u003cbr\u003e2.11 Fairy Queen~Act II. 11. Chorus: May the God of Wit inspire \/ 12. Echo \u003cbr\u003e2.12 Fairy Queen~Act II. 13. Chorus: Now join your warbling voices all, Sing while we trip it \u003cbr\u003e2.13 Fairy Queen~Act II. 14. Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Night: See, even Night herself is here \u003cbr\u003e2.14 Fairy Queen~Act II. 15. Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Mystery: I am come to lack all fast \u003cbr\u003e2.15 Fairy Queen~Act II. 16. Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Secrecy: One charming night gives move delight \u003cbr\u003e2.16 Fairy Queen~Act II. 17. Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Sleep: Hush, no more \u003cbr\u003e2.17 Fairy Queen~Act II. 18. Dance of Fairies: Dance for the followers of Night \u003cbr\u003e2.18 Fairy Queen~Act II. 19. Dance of Fairies. Second Act Tune: Air \u003cbr\u003e2.19 Fairy Queen~Act III. 20. If love's a sweet passion \u003cbr\u003e2.20 Fairy Queen~Act III. 21. Symphony while the swans come forward \u003cbr\u003e2.21 Fairy Queen~Act III. 22. Dance for the Fairies \u003cbr\u003e2.22 Fairy Queen~Act III. 23. Dance for the Green Men \u003cbr\u003e2.23 Fairy Queen~Act III. 24. Ye gentle spirits of the air \u003cbr\u003e2.24 Fairy Queen~Act III. 25. Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa \u003cbr\u003e2.25 Fairy Queen~Act III. 26. When I have often heard young maids complaining \u003cbr\u003e2.26 Fairy Queen~Act III. 27. Dance for the Haymakers \u003cbr\u003e2.27 Fairy Queen~Act III. 28. A thousand, thousand ways \u003cbr\u003e2.28 Fairy Queen~Act III. 29. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe \u003cbr\u003e3.1 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 30. Symphony \u003cbr\u003e3.2 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 31. Now the night is chased away \/ 32. Let the Fifes and the Clarions \u003cbr\u003e3.3 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 33. Entry of Phoebus \u003cbr\u003e3.4 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 34. When a cruel long winter \/ 35. Chorus: Hail! great parent of us all \u003cbr\u003e3.5 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 36. Spring: Thus the ever grateful Spring \u003cbr\u003e3.6 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 37. Summer: Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay \u003cbr\u003e3.7 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 38. Autumn: See, see my many colour'd fields \u003cbr\u003e3.8 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 39. Winter: Next Winter comes slowly \u003cbr\u003e3.9 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 40. Fourth Act Tune: Air \u003cbr\u003e3.10 Fairy Queen~Act V. 41. Prelude \u003cbr\u003e3.11 Fairy Queen~Act V. 42. Juno: Thrice happy lovers \u003cbr\u003e3.12 Fairy Queen~Act V. 43. The Plaint: O let me weep! \u003cbr\u003e3.13 Fairy Queen~Act V. 44. Entry Dance \u003cbr\u003e3.14 Fairy Queen~Act V. 45. Symphony \u003cbr\u003e3.15 Fairy Queen~Act V. 46. A Chinese Man: Thus the gloomy world \u003cbr\u003e3.16 Fairy Queen~Act V. 47. Chinese Woman: Thus happy and free \u003cbr\u003e3.17 Fairy Queen~Act V. 48. Chinese Man: Yes, Daphne \u003cbr\u003e3.18 Fairy Queen~Act V. 49. Monkey's Dance \u003cbr\u003e3.19 Fairy Queen~Act V. 50. Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice \u003cbr\u003e3.20 Fairy Queen~Act V. 51. Hark! the echoing air a triumph sings \u003cbr\u003e3.21 Fairy Queen~Act V. 52. Sure the dull God of Marriage does nor hear \u003cbr\u003e3.22 Fairy Queen~Act V. 53. Prelude \/ 54. Hymen: See, I obey \u003cbr\u003e3.23 Fairy Queen~Act V. 55. Turn then thine eyes \u003cbr\u003e3.24 Fairy Queen~Act V. 56. Hymen: My torch indeed will from such brightness shine \u003cbr\u003e3.25 Fairy Queen~Act V. 57. They shall be as happy as they are fair \u003cbr\u003e3.26 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 58. Chaconne \u003cbr\u003e3.27 Fairy Queen~Act IV. 59. 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