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Disc 1:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - SymphonyEnglish Chamber Orchestra 6:48£0.79
Listen  2. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - Now the night is chas'd awayJennifer Vyvyan 2:42£0.79
Listen  3. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - Let the fifes and the clarions....DanceJames Bowman 2:05£0.79
Listen  4. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - When a cruel long winterSir Peter Pears 2:50£0.79
Listen  5. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - Hail! great parent of us allAmbrosian Opera Chorus 2:16£0.79
Listen  6. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - Thus the ever grateful SpringMary Wells 2:48£0.79
Listen  7. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - Here's the Summer, sprightly gayJames Bowman 1:14£0.79
Listen  8. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - See, my many-coloured fieldsIan Partridge 3:01£0.79
Listen  9. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - Next, Winter comes slowly, paleJohn Shirley-Quirk 2:58£0.79
Listen10. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 1 - Hail! great parent of us allAmbrosian Opera Chorus 2:18£0.79
Listen11. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - Prelude...Come, all ye songsters of the skyCharles Brett 2:32£0.79
Listen12. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - The songsters...May the god of wit inspireAmbrosian Opera Chorus 1:57£0.79
Listen13. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - Echo...Now join your warbling voices allAmbrosian Opera Chorus 2:14£0.79
Listen14. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - Fill up the bowlJennifer Vyvyan 6:37£0.79
Listen15. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - See, even Night herself is hereNorma Burrowes 5:24£0.79
Listen16. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - "I am come to lock all fast"Jennifer Vyvyan0:42£0.39
Listen17. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - "One charming night"James Bowman 2:15£0.79
Listen18. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - No.17 "Hush, no more"John Shirley-Quirk 4:04£0.79
Listen19. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 2 - No.18 Dance for the followers of nightEnglish Chamber Orchestra 1:27£0.79
Listen20. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Part 3: The Sweet Passion - OvertureEnglish Chamber Orchestra 1:44£0.79
Listen21. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Part 3: The Sweet Passion - If love's a sweet passion...I press her handSir Peter Pears 2:40£0.79
Listen22. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Part 3: The Sweet Passion - O let me weep, for ever weepJennifer Vyvyan 7:48£0.79
Listen23. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Part 3: The Sweet Passion - Now the maids and the men are making of hayAlfreda Hodgson 3:43£0.79
Listen24. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Part 3: The Sweet Passion - A Dance of HaymakersEnglish Chamber Orchestra0:55£0.39
Listen25. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Part 3: The Sweet Passion - A thousand, thousand waysJames Bowman 3:06£0.79
Listen26. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Part 3: The Sweet Passion - Hornpipe and rondeauEnglish Chamber Orchestra 2:33£0.79


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - SymphonyEnglish Chamber Orchestra 1:28£0.79
Listen  2. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - Hark! Hark the echoing airJennifer Vyvyan 2:30£0.79
Listen  3. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - Sure the dull God of MarriageMary Wells 2:25£0.79
Listen  4. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - See, I obeyOwen Brannigan 1:50£0.79
Listen  5. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - Turn then thine eyesJennifer Vyvyan 1:10£0.79
Listen  6. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - My torch indeed...They shall be as happyJennifer Vyvyan 2:57£0.79
Listen  7. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - ChaconneEnglish Chamber Orchestra 3:33£0.79
Listen  8. The Fairy Queen - Ed. Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Peter Pears - Act 4 - They shall be as happyAmbrosian Opera Chorus0:54£0.39
Listen  9. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 1 - OvertureAldeburgh Festival Strings 2:17£0.79
Listen10. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 1 - "Shake the cloud from off your brow"Norma Burrowes 1:09£0.79
Listen11. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1 - "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"Dame Janet Baker 5:15£0.79
Listen12. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1 - "Whence could so much virtue spring?"Dame Janet Baker 2:06£0.79
Listen13. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1 - "Fear no danger to ensue"Norma Burrowes 1:36£0.79
Listen14. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1 - "See your royal guest appears"Norma Burrowes 5:13£0.79
Listen15. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1 - Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward Sisters"Sir Peter Pears 3:19£0.79
Listen16. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1 - "Ruin'd ere the set of sun?"The London Opera Chorus 5:28£0.79
Listen17. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2 - Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome dales"Anna Reynolds 3:44£0.79
Listen18. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2 - "Oft she visits this lov'd mountain"Felicity Palmer 2:29£0.79
Listen19. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2 - "Behold, upon my bending spear"The London Opera Chorus 1:20£0.79
Listen20. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2 - "Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command"Norma Burrowes 6:05£0.79
Listen21. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 3 - Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"Felicity Lott 2:17£0.79
Listen22. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 3 - "See the flags and streamers curling"Sir Peter Pears 3:19£0.79
Listen23. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 3 - "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain"Timothy Everett 3:40£0.79
Listen24. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 3 - "But death, alas! ...When I am laid in earth"Sir Peter Pears 6:29£0.79
Listen25. Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 3 - "With drooping wings ye cupids come"Robert Tear 4:59£0.79

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4 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Cannot stand listening to this performance 12 July 2005
By Leonardo A. - Published on Amazon.com
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Time passes fast, and 1970 is a prehistorical age for this kind of music.

I had the bad idea to buy this recording: Britten is directing this music disregarding his own annotations on the scores he adapted !! (I had to study them for a concert).

But worst, soloists are singing in a terrible "italian melodrammatic style" (as we say "with big potatoes in their mouth"). The chorus is too large, the tempo too slow, terribly slow. The brasses are untuned, the orchestra is not convincing at all.

Dido and Aeneas follows the same destiny.

Want to buy back my CDs :)?

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