DESCRIPTION:
Henry PURCELL

The Tempest or The Enchanted Island
Semi-Opera, Z 631
c. 1695

1. Overture

ACT 1
2. Where does the black fiend
3. Around, around we pace
4. Arise, ye subterranean winds
5. Dance of Winds

ACT 3
6. Comme unto these yellow sands
7. Full fathom five
8. Dry those eyes
9. Kind fortune smiles

ACT 4
10. Dance of Devils
11. The sailor's dance
12. Dear pretty youth

ACT 5
13. Great Neptune!
14. The nereids and Tritons
15. Aeolus, you must appear
16. Your awful voice I hear
17. Halcyon days
18. See, see, the heavens smile
19. No stars again shall hurt you

Rosemary Hardy [soprano]
Roderick Earle [bass]
Carol Hall [soprano]
David Thomas [Bass]
Jennifer Smith [soprano]
Stephen Varcoe [baritone]
John Elwes [tenor]

Monteverdi Choir
Monteverdi Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner [direction]