Purcell: The Fairy Queen; Dido & Aeneas by Jennifer Vyvyan, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: Symphony

English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "Now the Night Is Chas'd Away"

Jennifer Vyvyan, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "Let the Fifes and the Clarions....Dance"

English Chamber Orchestra, James Bowman, Charles Brett & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "When a Cruel Long Winter"

Peter Pears, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "Hail! Great Parent Of Us All" (Reprise)

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "Thus the Ever Grateful Spring"

English Chamber Orchestra, Mary Wells & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "Here's the Summer, Sprightly Gay"

James Bowman, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "See, My Many-Coloured Fields"

English Chamber Orchestra, Ian Partridge & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "Next, Winter Comes Slowly, Pale"

John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "Hail! Great Parent Of Us All"

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: Prelude..."Come, All Ye Songsters Of the Sky"

Charles Brett, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: "The Songsters...May the God Of Wit Inspire"

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: "Echo...Now Join Your Warbling Voices All"

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Fill Up the Bowl (Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears)

English Chamber Orchestra, Jennifer Vyvyan, Mary Wells, Owen Brannigan, Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: "See, Even Night Herself Is Here"

Norma Burrowes, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: "I Am Come To Lock All Fast"

Jennifer Vyvyan, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: "One Charming Night"

James Bowman, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: "Hush, No More"

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 2: Dance For the Followers Of Night

English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: Overture

English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: "If Love's a Sweet Passion...I Press Her Hand"

Peter Pears, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: "O Let Me Weep, For Ever Weep"

Jennifer Vyvyan, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: "Now the Maids and the Men Are Making Of Hay"

Alfreda Hodgson, Peter Pears, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: A Dance Of Haymakers

English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: "A Thousand, Thousand Ways"

James Bowman, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 3: Hornpipe and Rondeau

English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: Symphony

English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: "Hark! Hark the Echoing Air"

Jennifer Vyvyan, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: "Sure the Dull God Of Marriage"

Mary Wells, Alfreda Hodgson, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: "See, I Obey"

Benjamin Britten, Owen Brannigan & English Chamber Orchestra

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: "Turn Then Thine Eyes"

Benjamin Britten, Jennifer Vyvyan, Mary Wells & English Chamber Orchestra

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: "My Torch Indeed...They Shall Be As Happy"

Jennifer Vyvyan, Mary Wells, James Bowman, Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Owen Brannigan, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: Chaconne

English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 4: "They Shall Be As Happy"

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 1: Overture

Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 1: "Shake the cloud from off your brow"

Norma Burrowes, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"

Janet Baker, Norma Burrowes, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1: "Whence could so much virtue spring?"

Janet Baker, Norma Burrowes, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1: "Fear no danger to ensue"

Norma Burrowes, Felicity Lott, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1: "See your royal guest appears"

Norma Burrowes, Peter Pears, Janet Baker, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1: Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward Sisters"

Peter Pears, Norma Burrowes, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 1: "Ruin'd ere the set of sun?"

The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2: Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome dales"

Anna Reynolds, Felicity Palmer, Alfreda Hodgson, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2: "Oft she visits this lov'd mountain"

Felicity Palmer, Alfreda Hodgson, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2: "Behold, upon my bending spear"

The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 2: "Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command"

Norma Burrowes, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 3: Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"

Felicity Lott, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 3: "See the flags and streamers curling"

Norma Burrowes, Peter Pears, Janet Baker, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten - Act 3: "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain"

Timothy Everett, Peter Pears, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 - Realised: Imogen Holst & Benjamin Britten / Act 3: "But death, alas!...When I am laid in earth"

Janet Baker, The London Opera Chorus, Aldeburgh Festival Strings & Steuart Bedford