Les Arts Florissants / William Christie - Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, Fairy Queen (Box) vinyl record cover

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Dido and Aeneas~Overture

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Solo and Chorus: Shake the cloud

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Song: Ah! Belinda, I am prest

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: Grief increases by concealing

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus: When monarchs unite

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: Whence could so much virtue spring?

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Duet and Chorus: Fear no danger to ensue

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: See, your Royal Guest appears

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus: Cupid only throws the dart

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative: If not for mine

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Air: Pursue thy conquest

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus: To the hills and the vales

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Dido and Aeneas~Act I. The Triumphing Dance

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Prelude for the Witches: Wayward Sisters, you that fright

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus: Harm's our delight

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative: The Queen of Carthage

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho! / Recitative: Ruin'd ere the set of sun

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Duet: But ere we this perform

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus: In our deep vaulted cell

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Echo Dance of Furies

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Ritornelle

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song and Chorus: Thanks to these lonesome vales

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song: Oft she visits this lone mountain

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative: Behold, upon my bending spear

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song and Chorus: Haste, haste to town

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Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative: Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Prelude

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Solo and Chorus: Come away, fellow sailors

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Recitative: See the flags and streamers curling

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Song: Our next motion

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Chorus: Destruction's our delight

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. The Witche's Dance

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Recitative: Your counsel all is urged in vain

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Chorus: Great minds against themselves conspire

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Recitative: Thy hand, Belinda

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Song: When I am laid in earth

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Dido and Aeneas~Act III. Chorus: With drooping wings ye Cupids come

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Fairy Queen~First Musick.

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Prelude

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Fairy Queen~First Musick.

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Hornpipe

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Fairy Queen~Second Musick.

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Air

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Fairy Queen~Second Musick.

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Rondeau

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Fairy Queen~Second Musick.

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Overture

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Fairy Queen~Act I.

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Duet: Come, let us leave the town

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Fairy Queen~Act I.

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Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the bowl

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Fairy Queen~Act I.

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First Act Tune: Jig

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Fairy Queen~Act II.

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Come all ye songsters

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Prelude

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Chorus: May the God of Wit inspire / 1

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Echo

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Chorus: Now join your warbling voices all, Sing while we trip it

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Night: See, even Night herself is here

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Mystery: I am come to lack all fast

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Secrecy: One charming night gives move delight

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Dance of Fairies. Entrance of Sleep: Hush, no more

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Dance of Fairies: Dance for the followers of Night

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Fairy Queen~Act II. 1

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Dance of Fairies. Second Act Tune: Air

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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If love's a sweet passion

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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Symphony while the swans come forward

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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Dance for the Fairies

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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Dance for the Green Men

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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Ye gentle spirits of the air

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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When I have often heard young maids complaining

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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Dance for the Haymakers

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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A thousand, thousand ways

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Fairy Queen~Act III. 2

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Third Act Tune: Hornpipe

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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Symphony

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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Now the night is chased away / 3

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Let the Fifes and the Clarions

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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Entry of Phoebus

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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When a cruel long winter / 3

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Chorus: Hail! great parent of us all

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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Spring: Thus the ever grateful Spring

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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Summer: Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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Autumn: See, see my many colour'd fields

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 3

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Winter: Next Winter comes slowly

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 4

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Fourth Act Tune: Air

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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Prelude

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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Juno: Thrice happy lovers

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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The Plaint: O let me weep!

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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Entry Dance

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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Symphony

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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A Chinese Man: Thus the gloomy world

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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Chinese Woman: Thus happy and free

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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Chinese Man: Yes, Daphne

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 4

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Monkey's Dance

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 5

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Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 5

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Hark! the echoing air a triumph sings

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 5

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Sure the dull God of Marriage does nor hear

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 5

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Prelude / 5

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Hymen: See, I obey

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 5

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Turn then thine eyes

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 5

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Hymen: My torch indeed will from such brightness shine

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Fairy Queen~Act V. 5

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They shall be as happy as they are fair

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 5

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Chaconne

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Fairy Queen~Act IV. 5

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They shall be as happy as they are fair


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Les Arts Florissants / William Christie

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, Fairy Queen (Box)

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ABOUT THE ALBUM


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.

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