Purcell: Z 629/19. Dance for the Fairies (The Fairy Queen) - Scholars

Playlist (The Fairy Queen): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BC6538F620EFD118

The Fairy Queen, Z 629

Dramatic opera in five acts

Text: Anonymous, after William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (c.1595)

Music: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

First performance: 2 May 1692, in London (Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden)
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19. Dance for the Fairies
for 2 treble violins, tenor violin and basso continuo

Published in 'A Collection of Airs' (London: Frances Purcell, 1697)
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The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
(Artistic coordinator: David van Asch)

Recorded in November 1992

Pitch: A = 415 Hz
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The score featured in this video is from 'The Works of Henry Purcell' (Purcell Society Edition), volume 12 (London: Novello, 1903), with some editing by myself.

Marc D.

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