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The Indian Queen Z 630

Libretto: John Dryden, Robert Howard
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Martyn Hill (Tenor), Rosemary Hardy (Soprano), John Elwes (Tenor), Ashley Stafford (Countertenor), David Thomas (Bass), Stephen Varcoe (Baritone), Gillian Fisher (Soprano)
℗ 1980

  • Curtain Music and Overture

    • 1. First Air
      01:20
    • 2. Second Air
      01:08
    • 3. First Hornpipe
      00:54
    • 4. Second Hornpipe
      01:24
    • 5. Overture. Adagio
      01:44
    • 6. Overture. Allegro
      01:54

  • Act I

    • 1. Trumpet Tune
      00:47
    • 2. "Wake, Quivera, wake" (Boy)
      02:13
    • 3. "Why should men quarrel" (Girl)
      01:29
    • 4. "By ancient prophecies" (Girl, Boy)
      04:29
    • 5. Trumpet Tune
      00:47

  • Act II

    • 1. Canzona
      02:07
    • 2. Symphony. Adagio
      01:51
    • 3. Symphony. Allegro
      00:57
    • 4. "I come to sing great Zempoalla Story" (Fame)
      00:56
    • 5. Air "What flattering noise is this"
      00:42
    • 6. "Scorn'd Envy, here's nothing" (Fame)
      01:03
    • 7. "I fly from the place" (Envy)
      01:07
    • 8. "Begone, curst fiends of Hell" (Fame)
      00:41
    • 9. "I come to sing" (Fame)
      01:27

  • Act III

    • 1. Air
      00:41
    • 2. Minuet
      01:31
    • 3. "Ye twice ten hundred deities" (Ismeron)
      05:29
    • 4. Symphony
      01:05
    • 5. "Seek not to know" (God of Dreams)
      02:54
    • 6. Trumpet Overture
      03:02
    • 7. "Ah, how happy are we" (First and Second Aerial Spirits)
      02:33
    • 8. "We the spirits of the Air" (Third and Fourth Aerial Spirits]
      01:30
    • 9. "I attempt from love's sickness" (Soprano)
      01:48
    • 10. Air (Aerial Spirits, Chorus)
      01:17
    • 11. Third Act Tune
      01:57

  • Act IV

    • 1. "They tell us that your mighty powers" (Soprano) – Fourth Act Tune
      03:36
    • 2. "While thus we bow" (High Priest)
      06:18

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