John Eliot Gardiner- Purcell: King Arthur Vinyl Record

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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 : King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture
2 : King Arthur, Z. 628: Air
3 : King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture (Reprise)
4 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Trio and Chorus. Woden, First to Thee - To Woden, Our Defender, Thanks We Render (Saxon Priest, Priestess, Chorus)
5 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Song.

The Lot Is Cast, and Tanfan Pleas'd (Priestess)
6 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Chorus. Brave Souls, to Be Renown'd in Story (Chorus)
7 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Song and Chorus. I Call You All to Woden's Hall (Priestess, Chorus)
8 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Song and Chorus.

Come If You Dare - First Act Tune (British Warrior, Chorus)
9 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Song and Chorus. Hither, This Way, This Way Bend (Philidel, Chorus)
10 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Song. Let Not a Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye (Grimbald)
11 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Hither This Way, This Way Bend (Chorus)
12 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Song and Chorus.

Come, Follow Me (Philidel, Chorus)
Disc: 2
1 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Song and Chorus. How Blest Are Shepherds (Tenor, Chorus)
2 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Duet. Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying (Shepherdesses)
3 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Chorus. Come, Shepherds, Lead up a Lively Measure - Hornpipe (Chorus)
4 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Second Act Tune.

Air
5 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song. What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle (Cupid)
6 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Prelude While Cold Genius Rises - Frost Scene. What Power Art Thou (Cold Genius)
7 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song. What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle - Song. Thou Doting Fool (Cupid)
8 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song.

Great Love, I Know Thee Now (Cold Genius)
9 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song. No Part of My Dominion (Cupid)
10 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Prelude - Chorus. See, See, We Assemble - Dance (Chorus)
Disc: 3
1 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Ritornello. Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye - Chorus.

Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us (Cupid, Chorus)
2 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Duet. Sound a Parley - Ritornello - Chorus. Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us (Cupid, Cold Genius, Chorus)
3 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Third Act Tune. Hornpipe
4 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: Duet. Two Daughters of This Aged Stream Are We (Syrens)
5 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: Song and Chorus.

How Happy the Lover - Duet and Chorus. For Love Every Creature & Chorus Trio. In Vain Are Our Graces (Tenor, Sylvan, Nymphs, Chorus)
6 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: Fourth Act Tune. Air
7 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune
8 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song. Ye Blust'ring Brethren of the Skies (Aeolus)
9 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Symphony
Disc: 4
1 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song and Chorus.

Round Thy Coast (Nereid, Pan, Chorus)
2 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trio. For Folded Flocks, and Fruitful Plains (Trio)
3 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song and Chorus. Your Hay It Is Mow'd (Peasant, Chorus)
4 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song. Fairest Isle (Venus)
5 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Duet.

You Say 'tis Love (He, She)
6 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune. Warlike Consort
7 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song and Chorus. Saint George (Honour, Chorus)
8 : King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Chaconne

As John Eliot Gardiner converted his Monteverdi Orchestra to early instruments in the mid-1970s and renamed it the English Baroque Soloists, he engaged his magnificent instrumentalists, choir and a host of first-class soloists in the most emblematic works by 'the Greatest Genius we [England] ever had'; Henry Purcell!