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The Indian Queen Z 630

Libretto: John Dryden, Robert Howard
Christopher Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music, Academy of Ancient Music Chorus, John Mark Ainsley (Tenor), Dame Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Simon Berridge (Tenor), Julian Podger (Tenor), David Thomas (Bass), Gerald Finley (Baritone), Tommy Williams (Tenor), Helen Parker (Soprano), Libby Crabtree (Soprano), Catherine Bott (Soprano)
1995, London

  • Prologue

    • Overture
      02:18
    • Air - Hornpipe
      02:09
    • Overture
      03:10

  • Act I

    • Trumpet Tune I
      00:40
    • "Wake, Quivera, our soft rest must cease" (Indian Boy)
      02:13
    • "Why Should Men Quarrel?" (Indian Girl)
      01:33
    • "By ancient prophesies we have been told" (Indian Boy, Indian Girl)
      04:17
    • Trumpet Tune II
      00:44

  • Act II

    • Symphony
      03:59
    • "I come to sing great Zempoalla's story" (Fame, Chorus)
      01:19
    • "What flatt'ring noise is this" (Envy, Two Followers of Envy)
      00:39
    • "Scorn'd Envy, Here's Nothing" (Envy, Fame)
      02:38
    • Trumpet Tune
      00:36
    • "We Come To Sing Great Zempoalla's Story" (Fame, Chorus)
      00:39
    • Dance
      01:05
    • Second Act Tune (Trumpet Tune reprise)
      00:43

  • Act III

    • Dance
      00:55
    • "Ye twice ten hundred deities" (Ismeron)
      04:48
    • "Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd" (God of Dreams)
      03:43
    • Trumpet Overture
      02:34
    • "Ah, How Happy Are We" (Aerial Spirits)
      02:02
    • "We the spirits of the air" (Aerial Spirits, Chorus)
      01:35
    • "I attempt from Love's sickness"(Zempoalla)
      03:12
    • Third Act Tune: Rondeau
      01:13

  • Act IV

    • "They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers" (Orazia)
      05:31
    • Fourth Act Tune: Air
      01:23

  • Act V

    • "While thus we bow before your shrine"(Chorus)
      01:59
    • "You, who at the altar - All Dismal Sounds" (Envy, Chorus)
      03:56

  • Additional Act

    • Symphony
      00:54
    • "To Bless The Genial Bed - Come All, Come At My Call" (Ismeron, Followers of Envy, Chorus)
      02:28
    • "I'm Glad I Have Met Him" (Envy, Ismeron, Orazia)
      02:28
    • "The Joys Of Wedlock Soon Are Past - Sound, Sound The Trumpet" (Indian Boy and Indian Girl)
      03:46
    • "Make Haste, Make Haste To Put On Love's Chains" (Envy, Ismeron)
      00:45
    • Trumpet Air - "Let Loud Renown With All Her Thousand Tongues" (Chorus)
      01:30

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