普賽爾的《仙后》是一系列根據莎士比亞之「仲夏夜之夢」所作的歌劇之一，首演於1692年。收錄於本集的錄音為1967年愛丁堡音樂節演出的縮減版，由終身熱愛普賽爾作品的布烈頓擔綱指揮。《狄多與阿尼亞斯》為普賽爾最受歡迎的歌劇作品，本集為主唱珍娜．貝克的第二度錄音。堅強的指揮與演唱組合，深具收藏價值。

曲目：

CD 1: Purcell: The Fairy Queen; Dido & Aeneas
Track 1    Symphony  [6:53]
Track 2    Now the night is chas'd away  [2:40]
Track 3    Let the fifes and the clarions....Dance  [2:08]
Track 4    When a cruel long winter  [2:48]
Track 5    Hail! great parent of us all  [2:15]
Track 6    Thus the ever grateful Spring  [2:47]
Track 7    Here's the Summer, sprightly gay  [1:14]
Track 8    See, my many-coloured fields  [3:04]
Track 9    Next, Winter comes slowly, pale  [2:55]
Track 10    Hail! great parent of us all  [2:21]
Track 11    Prelude...Come, all ye songsters of the sky  [2:31]
Track 12    The songsters...May the god of wit inspire  [1:57]
Track 13    Echo...Now join your warbling voices all  [2:14]
Track 14    Fill up the bowl  [6:35]
Track 15    See, even Night herself is here  [5:22]
Track 16    "I am come to lock all fast"  [0:43]
Track 17    "One charming night"  [2:16]
Track 18    No.17 "Hush, no more"  [4:04]
Track 19    No.18 Dance for the followers of night  [1:30]
Track 20    Overture  [1:44]
Track 21    If love's a sweet passion...I press her hand  [2:40]
Track 22    O let me weep, for ever weep  [7:49]
Track 23    Now the maids and the men are making of hay  [3:42]
Track 24    A Dance of Haymakers  [0:56]
Track 25    A thousand, thousand ways  [3:06]
Track 26    Hornpipe and rondeau  [2:26]

CD 2: Purcell: The Fairy Queen; Dido & Aeneas
Track 1    Symphony  [1:25]
Track 2    Hark! Hark the echoing air  [2:30]
Track 3    Sure the dull God of Marriage  [2:27]
Track 4    See, I obey  [1:49]
Track 5    Turn then thine eyes  [1:10]
Track 6    My torch indeed...They shall be as happy  [2:57]
Track 7    Chaconne  [3:33]
Track 8    They shall be as happy  [0:53]
Track 9    Overture  [2:17]
Track 10    "Shake the cloud from off your brow"  [1:09]
Track 11    "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"  [5:15]
Track 12    "Whence could so much virtue spring?"  [2:06]
Track 13    "Fear no danger to ensue"  [1:36]
Track 14    "See your royal guest appears"  [5:13]
Track 15    Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward Sisters"  [3:19]
Track 16    "Ruin'd ere the set of sun?"  [5:28]
Track 17    Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome dales"  [3:44]
Track 18    "Oft she visits this lov'd mountain"  [2:29]
Track 19    "Behold, upon my bending spear"  [1:20]
Track 20    "Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command"  [6:05]
Track 21    Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"  [2:17]
Track 22    "See the flags and streamers curling"  [3:19]
Track 23    "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain"  [3:40]
Track 24    "But death, alas! ...When I am laid in earth"  [6:29]
Track 25    "With drooping wings ye cupids come"  [4:59]