Detailed Instrumentation: Brass Choir: 3 Bb Trumpets, 3 F Horns, 3 Trombone, Timpani

Duration: 6 minutes

Description: This arrangement of the prelude and fanfare for brass choir from “The Fairy-Queen” (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a “Restoration spectacular”. The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare’s wedding comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

• ST220 / 3774831 PRELUDE AND FANFARE FROM THE FAIRY QUEEN $19.95Buy Now