Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Purcell-Edition Vol. 1

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Dido and Aeneas;King Arthur;The Fairy Queen
  • Artist: Gens, Berg, Les Arts Florissants, Christie (Dido and Aeneas); Gens, McFadden, Piau, Waters, Padmore, Best, Les Arts Florissants, Christie (King Arthur); Bonney, Magnus, McNair, Chance, Holl, Concentus Musicus Wien, Harnoncourt (Fairy Queen)
  • Label: Warner , DDD, 1993-95
  • Order number: 1046472
  • Release date: 29.5.2009

Disk 1 von 4

Dido and Aeneas Z 626 (Oper in 3 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme)

  1. 1 Ouverture (1. Akt) Start
  2. 2 Shake the cloud from off your brow, Fate your wishes does allow Start
  3. 3 Ah Belinda, I am prest with torment not to be confest Start
  4. 4 Grief increases by concealing - Mine admits of no revealing - When monarchs unite, how happy their state... Start
  5. 5 Whence could so much virtue spring? Start
  6. 6 Fear no danger to ensue, the Hero loves as well as you Start
  7. 7 See, your royal guest appears; how godlike is the form he bears! - Cupid only throws the dart... Start
  8. 8 If not for mine, for Empire's sake some pity on your lover take Start
  9. 9 The triumphing dance Start
  10. 10 Prelude for the witches - Wayward sisters, you that fright the lonely traveller - Harm's our delight... (2. Akt) Start
  11. 11 The Queen fo Carthage... - Ho ho ho! - Ruin'd ere the set of sun? Tell us, how shall this be done? - Ho ho ho! Start
  12. 12 But ere we this perform, we'll conjure up a storm Start
  13. 13 In our deep vaulted cell - Echo dance of the furies Start
  14. 14 Ritornelle - Thanks to these lonesome vales, these desert hills and dales Start
  15. 15 Oft she visits this lov'd mountain, oft she bath's her in this fountain Start
  16. 16 Behold, upon my bending spear a monster's head stands bleeding - Haste, haste to town, this open field no shelter... Start
  17. 17 Stay, Prince, an hear great Jove's command; he summons thee this night away Start
  18. 18 Then since our charms have sped, a merry, merry dance be led by the nymphs of Carthage to please us - The grove's dance Start
  19. 19 Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing - The sailor's dance (2. Akt) Start
  20. 20 See, see the flags and streams curling - Our next motion must be to storm her lover on the ocean Start
  21. 21 Destruction's our delight, delight our greates sorrow Start
  22. 22 The witches' dance Start
  23. 23 Your counsel all is urg'd in vain Start
  24. 24 Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire - Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me Start
  25. 25 When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create no trouble in thy breast Start
  26. 26 With drooping wings ye Cupids come, to scatter roses on her tomb Start

King Arthur or The British Worthy Z 628 (Oper) (Gesamtaufnahme)

  1. 27 Ouverture Start
  2. 28 Air Start
  3. 29 Woden, first to thee a milk-white steed, in battle won, we have sacrific'd (1. Akt) Start
  4. 30 The white horse neigh'd aloud... To Woden, our defender, thanks we render Start
  5. 31 The lot is cast, and Tanfan pleas'd; of mortal cares you shall be eas'd Start
  6. 32 Brave souls, to be renown'd in story...die and reap the fruit of glory Start
  7. 33 I call you all to Woden's Hall
  8. 34 "Come if you dare", our trumpets sound

Disk 2 von 4

  1. 1 Hither, this way, this way bend, trust not the malicious friend (2. Akt) Start
  2. 2 Let not a moonborn elf mislead ye from your prey and from your glory - Hither, this way, this way bend Start
  3. 3 Come, follow me Start
  4. 4 How blest are shepherds, how happy their lasses, while drums and trumpets are sounding alarms! Start
  5. 5 Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying; pipes are sweet on summer's day Start
  6. 6 Come, shepherd, lead up a lively measure Start
  7. 7 Second act tune: Air Start
  8. 8 Prelude (3. Akt) Start
  9. 9 What ho! thou genius of this isle, what ho! Start
  10. 10 Prelude while God Genius rises Start
  11. 11 Thou doting fool, forbear, forbear! Start
  12. 12 Great love, I know thee now Start
  13. 13 No part art thou, who from below hast made me rise Start
  14. 14 Prelude Start
  15. 15 See, see, we assemble thy revels shall be waste Start
  16. 16 'Tis I, 'tis I that have warm'd us Start
  17. 17 Sound a parley, ye fair, and surrender. Set yourselves and your lovers at ease - Ritornello - 'Tis love that... Start
  18. 18 Third act tune: Hornpipe Start
  19. 19 Two daughters of this aged stream are we (4. Akt) Start
  20. 20 How happy the lover, how easy his chain! - For love ev'ry creature is form'd by this nature - In vain are our graces... Start
  21. 21 Fourth act tune: Air Start
  22. 22 Trumpet tune (5. Akt) Start
  23. 23 Ye blush'ring brethren of the skies...retire and let Britannia rise Start
  24. 24 Symphony Start
  25. 25 Round thy coase, fair nymph of Britain, for the guard our waters flow Start
  26. 26 For folded flocks, and fruitful plains...fair Britain all the world outvies Start
  27. 27 Your hay it is mow'd and your corn is reap'd Start
  28. 28 Fairest isle, all isles excelling Start
  29. 29 You say, 'tis Love creates the pain of which so sadly you complain Start
  30. 30 Trumpet tune - Air de trompette Start
  31. 31 Saint George the patron of our Isle...on this suspicious order smile Start
  32. 32 Our natives not alone appear to court the martial prize Start
  33. 33 Chaconne

Disk 3 von 4

The Fairy Queen Z 629 (Oper in 5 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme)

  1. 1 Prelude Start
  2. 2 Air - Rondeau Start
  3. 3 Ouverture (1. Akt) Start
  4. 4 Come, let us leave the town Start
  5. 5 Scene of the drunken poet Start
  6. 6 First act tune: Gigue Start
  7. 7 Come, all ye songsters of the sky, wake and assemble in this wood (2. Akt) Start
  8. 8 May the God of Wit inspire the sacred nine to bear a part Start
  9. 9 Now join your warbling voices all Start
  10. 10 Sing while we trip it upon the green - Dance of Fairies - Sing while we trip it upon the green Start
  11. 11 See, even Night herself is here to favour your design - I am come to lock all fast, love without me cannot last - ... Start
  12. 12 Second act tune (3. Akt) Start
  13. 13 If love's a sweet passion, why does it torment? Start
  14. 14 Symphony while the swans come forward Start
  15. 15 Dance for the Fairies Start
  16. 16 Dance for the Green Men Start
  17. 17 Ye gentle spirits of the air, appear! Start
  18. 18 Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa: Now the maids and the men are making - Dance for the Haymakers Start
  19. 19 When I have often heard young maids complaining that when men promise most they most deceive Start
  20. 20 A thousand, thousand ways we'll find to entertain the hours Start
  21. 21 Third act tune Start

Disk 4 von 4

  1. 1 Symphony (4. Akt) Start
  2. 2 Now the night is chased away, all salute the rising sun Start
  3. 3 Let the fifes and the clarions and shrill trumpets sounds Start
  4. 4 Entry of Phoebus - When a cruel long Winter has frozen the earth Start
  5. 5 Hail! great parent of us all, light and comfort of the earth - Thus the ever grateful Spring... Start
  6. 6 Prelude - Thrice happily lovers, may you be ever free (5. Akt) Start
  7. 7 The plaint: O let me ever, ever weep Start
  8. 8 Entry dance - Symphony - Thus the gloomy world at first began to shine - Thus happy and free thus treated... Start
  9. 9 Monkey's dance Start
  10. 10 Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice - Hark! the echoing air a triumph sings Start
  11. 11 Sure the dull God of marriage does not hear; we'll rouse him with a charm - Prelude - See, I obey... Start
  12. 12 Chaconne Start
  13. 13 They shall be as happy as they're fair; love shall fill all the places of care Start

Product Information

Purcell gehört zu den Komponisten des Barock, die großen Einfluss auf moderne britische Komponisten wie Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, Peter Maxwell Davies oder Michael Nyman hatten. Selbst moderne Rock-Musiker berufen sich auf ihn. So zählt Pete Townshend von der Gruppe The Who Purcell zu seinen bedeutendsten Einflüssen, was beispielsweise in den Anfangstakten von “Pinball Wizard“ deutlich wird. Teil eins der Purcell Edition präsentiert auf 4 CDs Purcells Theater-Musiken “Dido & Aeneas“, “King Arthur“ und “The Fairy Qeen“ unter der Leitung des Experten für die barocke Dramatik: William Christie und anderer.

Press comments

I. Allihn in FonoForum 6 / 95: "Faszinierende musikalische Deutung. William Christie ist mit Purcells Oeuvre bestens vertraut. Entsprechend tief lotet er mir seinem ungemein differenziert und einfühlsam musizierenden Ensemble die Partitur aus. Veronique Gens ist eine absolut überzeugende, stimmlich virtuose Dido. Ebenbürtig steht ihr Nathan Berg mit seinem nuancenreichen Baßbariton als Aeneas zur Seite. Auch alle anderen Gesangspartien werden klangschön gestaltet. Die in sich sehr ausgewogene Aufnahme hinterläßt einen überaus erfreulichen Gesamteindruck."

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