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The Indian Queen Z 630

Libretto: John Dryden, Robert Howard
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Stephen Varcoe (Baritone), Martyn Hill (Tenor), John Elwes (Tenor), Rosemary Hardy (Soprano), Ashley Stafford (Countertenor), Gillian Fisher (Soprano), Dinah Harris (Soprano), Jennifer Smith (Soprano), David Thomas (Bass)
1979, London, Henry Wood Hall

  • Curtain Music and Overture

    • First Music. Air I
      01:20
    • First Music. Air II
      01:08
    • Second Music. Hornpipe I
      00:54
    • Second Music. Hornpipe II
      01:24
    • Overture. Adagio
      01:44
    • Overture. Allegro
      01:54

  • Act I

    • 1. Trumpet Tune
      00:47
    • 2. "Wake, Quivera" (Indian Boy)
      02:13
    • 3. "Why Should Men Quarrel" (Indian Girl)
      01:29
    • 4. "By Ancient Prophecies" (Indian Boy, Indian Girl)
      04:29
    • 5. Trumpet Tune
      00:47

  • Act II

    • 1. Symphony. Canzona
      02:07
    • 2. Symphony. Adagio
      01:51
    • 3. Symphony. Allegro
      00:57
    • 4. "I Come to Sing Great Zempoalla Story" (Fame, Chorus)
      00:56
    • 5. "What Flattering Noise Is This?" (Envy, Two Followers)
      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 for Hautboys
      01:05
    • 5. "Seek Not to Know" (God of Dreams)
      02:54
    • 6. Trumpet Overture
      03:02
    • 7. "Ah, How Happy Are We" (First Aerial Spirit, Second Aerial Spirit)
      02:33
    • 8. "We the Spirits of the Air" (Third Aerial Spirit, Fourth Aerial Spirit, Chorus)
      01:30
    • 9. "I Attempt From Love's Sickness" (Zempoalla)
      01:48
    • 10. "We the Spirits of the Air" (Third Aerial Spirits, Fourth Aerial Spirits, Chorus)
      01:17
    • 11. Third Act Tune
      01:57

  • Act IV

    • 1. "They Tell Us" - Fourth Act Tune - "To Suffer for Him" (Orazia)
      03:36

  • Act V

    • 1. "While Thus We Bow" (Chorus, High Priest)
      06:18

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