Track 1. First Music: Chaconne (03:24) -- Track 2. Second Music: 1. Overture (01:59) -- Track 3. 2. Air (01:24) -- Track 4. "Woden, first to thee" / "We have sacrific'd" (02:19) -- Track 5. "The white horse neigh'd aloud" / "To Woden thanks we render" (01:21) -- Track 6. The Lot is cast (soprano) (00:43) -- Track 7. Brave souls (02:34) -- Track 8. I call ye all (Tenor) (02:08) -- Track 9. 'Come if you dare' (tenor) (04:02) -- Track 10. Hither this way (Philidel) (02:04) -- Track 11. Let not a Moon-born Elf (Grimbald) (01:12) -- Track 12. Hither, this way bend (00:37) -- Track 13. Come follow, follow, follow me (Philidel) (02:18) -- Track 14. How blest are Shepherds (Shepherd) (04:33) -- Track 15. Shepherd, shepherd, leave Decoying (Shepherdesses) (01:55) -- Track 16. Come, shepherds (01:29) -- Track 17. Second Act Tune: Air (01:07) -- Track 18. Prelude (00:22) -- Track 19. What ho (Cupid) (01:07) -- Track 20. What Power art thou (Genius) (02:51) -- Track 21. Thou Doting Fool (Cupid) (00:53) -- Track 22. Great Love, I know thee now (01:01) -- Track 23. No part of my Dominium (Cupid) (01:10) -- Track 24. Prelude (00:50) -- Track 25. See, see, we assemble (03:20) -- Track 26. 'Tis I that have warm'd ye (Cupid) (02:11) -- Track 27. "Sound a parley" / "'Tis Love, 'tis Love, 'tis Love that has warm'd us" (04:24) -- Track 28. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe (00:47) -- Track 29. Two Daughters (Syrens) (03:07) -- Track 30. Passacaglia -- "How happy the lover" -- Ritornello -- "For love ev'ry creature" -- "No joys are above" -- "In vain are our graces" -- "Then use the sweet blessing" (06:07) -- Track 31. Fourth Act Tune: Air (00:40) -- Track 32. Trumpet Tune (00:52) -- Track 33. Ye blust'ring brethren (03:03) -- Track 34. Symphony (02:00) -- Track 35. Round thy coast (02:26) -- Track 36. For Folded Flocks (Countertenor, Tenor and Bass) (03:38) -- Track 37. Your Hay it is Mow'd (Comus) (02:36) -- Track 38. Fairest Isle (Venus) (04:49) -- Track 39. Dialogue: You say, 'Tis Love (Soprano and bass) (05:23) -- Track 40. Trumpet tune (00:40) -- Track 41. "Saint George, the patron of our Isle" -- "Our natives not alone appear" (03:27).
Note
Opera in 5 acts.
Libretto by John Dryden.
Language (note)
Sung in English.
Author
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer.
Title
King Arthur / Henry Purcell.
Publisher
Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, [1992]
Copyright date
℗1992
Playing time
013253
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Nancy Argenta, Julia Gooding, Linda Perillo, sopranos ; Jamie MacDougall, Mark Tucker, tenors ; Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Gerald Finley, basses ; Choir of the English Concert ; English Concert (on authentic instruments) ; Trevor Pinnock, conductor.