Annotation

CUPID (soprano)
What ho! Thou genius of this isle, what ho!
Liest thou asleep beneath those hills of snow?
Stretch out thy lazy limbs. Awake, awake!
And winter from thy furry mantle shake.

Annotation last modified on 2024-09-26 06:10 UTC.

Relationships

composer:Henry Purcell (Baroque composer)
librettist:John Dryden (English poet)
part of:King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III (order: 2)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1978-10King Arthur: Act III, Scene II. Prelude "What ho"Rosemary Hardy1:43
1983-01-10 – 1983-01-27King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. Prelude (The Frost Scene) – “What ho! Thou genius of this isle”Elisabeth Priday, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner1:23
1991-06King Arthur: Act III. “What ho!”Nancy Argenta, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock1:08
1995-01-02 – 1995-01-07King Arthur, Z. 628, Act III Frost Scene: What ho! Thou genius of this isleNancy Argenta, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner0:53
1995-02King Arthur: Act III. "What ho! thou genius of this isle"Susannah Waters, Les Arts Florissants0:59
2003-10King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “What ho!”Hanna Bayodi, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet0:49
2012King Arthur: (The Frost Scene) Prelude / "What Ho! Thou Genius Of This Isle"BarokOpera Amsterdam, Frédérique Chauvet1:20
2018-01King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III. “What ho! Thou genius of this isle”Sophie Junker, Vox Luminis1:07
King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III, Scene II (beginning)Henry Purcell10:58