Purcell: The Fairy Queen / Harrhy, Nelson, Priday, Smith, Thomas, Varcoe, Gardiner
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简介
《精灵女王》(The Fairy Queen)，5幕假面混杂剧，Z629,据莎士比亚的《仲夏夜之梦》，由塞特尔(Settle)撰脚本，作于1692年。（林逸聪《音乐圣经》）
17世纪初，英国宫廷和社交场所盛行一种源自意大利和法国宫廷的假面剧，它综合诗歌、舞蹈、声乐与器乐，承袭16世纪上半叶唱诗班歌童音乐剧的传统，逐渐演变为复杂的宫廷娱乐形式。
最早的假面剧音乐由一种以琉特琴伴唱的独唱体裁(Ayre)和一种带有可供跳舞的段落舞歌(Balletti)组成。演出时配有布景、舞台装置和服装。早期假面具剧作家有本•琼森、博蒙特、坎披恩、德克、雪莉等人。作曲家则有坎皮恩、罗伯特•约翰逊、小费拉博斯科、拉尼埃尔和劳斯兄弟等人。早期耗资最大、最为豪华的假面剧是雪莉作台本、威廉•劳斯谱曲的《和平的胜利》(1633)。另有亨利•劳斯于1634年为弥尔顿作品谱曲的《科墨斯》，在当时也颇有影响。假面剧中以朗诵调代替对白的形式日趋明显，便更多的向歌剧接近。H•珀塞尔(Henry Purcell,1659-1695)的《亚瑟王》，是在查理二世王政复辟时期社会普遍要求摒弃意大利模式而以音乐与对白形式相结合的法国芭蕾喜剧浪潮中产生的新型歌剧。他的《狄多与埃涅阿斯》(1689)却属于意大利式的小型歌剧。珀塞尔共创作49部音乐戏剧，这些作品综合了英国假面剧、诗歌、戏剧、舞蹈、民间歌曲等多种形式。到了18世纪阿恩和海斯等人的假面剧 ，多以轻松优雅的游乐艺术表演。
tracks
First Music: 1. Prelude
First Music: 2. Hornpipe
Second Music: 3. Air
Second Music: 4. Rondeau
Second Music: 5. Overture
Act I: 6. Song in Two Parts: Come, come, come, let us leave the Town
Act I: 7. Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the Bow!
Act I: 8. First Act Tune: Jig
Act II: 9. Prelude and Song: Come all ye Songsters of the Sky
Act II: 10. Prelude
Act II: 11. Trio: May the God of Wit inspire
Act II: 12. Echo
Act II: 13a. Now joyn your Warbling Voices all
Act II: 13b. A Dance of Fairies
Act II: 13c. Song and Chorus: Sing while we trip it on the Green
Act II: 14. Song: See, even Night her self is here (NIGHT)
Act II: 15. Song: I am come to lock all fast (MYSTERY)
Act II: 16. Song: One charming Night (SECRESIE)
Act II: 17. Song and Chorus: Hush, no more, be silent all (SLEEP)
Act II: 18. A Dance for the Followers of Night
Act II: 19. Second Act Tune: Air
Act III: 20. A Song in Two Parts and Chorus: If Love's a Sweet Passion
Act III: 21. Overture: Symphony while the Swans come forward
Act III: 22. Dance for the Fairies
Act III: 23. Dance for the Green Men
Act III: 24. Song: Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, appear
Act III: 25. Now the Maids and the Men
Act III: 26. Song: When I have often heard (A NYMPH)
Act III: 27. A Dance of Haymakers
Act III: 28. A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find
Act III: 29. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
Act IV: 30. Symphony
Act IV: 31. Now the Night is chac'd away
Act IV: 32. Let the Fifes, and the Clarions
Act IV: 33. Entry of Phoebus
Act IV: 34. When a cruel long Winter/35. Hail! Great Parent of us all
Act IV: 36. Thus the ever Grateful Spring
Act IV: 37. Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay
Act IV: 38. See my many Colour'd Fields
Act IV: 39. Now Winter comes Slowly
Act IV: Fourth Act Tune: Air
Act V: 41. Prelude
Act V: 42. Thrice happy Lovers
Act V: 43. O let me weep
Act V: 44. Entry Dance
Act V: 45. Symphony
Act V: 46. Thus the gloomy World
Act V: 47. Thus Happy and Free
Act V: 49. Monkeys' Dance
Act V: 50. Hark how all things
Act V: 51. Hark now the Echoing Air
Act V: 52. Sure the dull God of Marriage
Act V: 53. Prelude
Act V: 54. See, see, I obey
Act V: 55. Turn then thine Eyes
Act V: 56. My Torch, indeed
Act V: 57. They shall be as happy
Act V: 59. They shall be as happy
Act V: 60. Dance for Chinese Man and Woman