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PURCELL – Suite from ‘The Fairy Queen’ (complete) – FOUR CELLOS or FOUR TROMBONES

Other Identification:
The Fairy-Queen is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell of about two hours duration. The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. First performed in 1692, The Fairy-Queen was composed three years before Purcell’s death at the age of 36. Following his death, the score was lost and only rediscovered early in the twentieth century.
Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare’s text to music; instead he composed music for short masques in every act but the first. The English tradition of semi-opera, to which The Fairy-Queen belongs, demanded that most of the music within the play be introduced through the agency of supernatural beings, the exception being pastoral or drunken characters!
Written as he approached the end of his brief career, The Fairy-Queen contains some of Purcell’s finest theatre music. The orchestra for The Fairy-Queen consists of two recorders, two oboes, two trumpets, timpani, string instruments and harpsichord continuo.
The present arranger is unknown to Johnstone-Music

Movements or sections:
In five acts

Instrumentation:
QUARTET OF FOUR CELLOS
or
QUARTET OF FOUR TROMBONES
….
2 PDFs, one of parts 1 and 2, and the other of parts 3 and 4

Approximate difficulty:
Medium

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