Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen & Dido and Aeneas on 3 CDs

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

The Fairy Queen & Dido and Aeneas

Nancy Argenta, Lynne Dawson, Isabelle Desrochers, Veronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Charles Daniels, Mark Le Brocq, Guillemette Laurens, Jill Feldman, Dominique Visse, Agnes Mellon, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie und weitere

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Artists:: Nancy Argenta, Lynne Dawson, Isabelle Desrochers, Veronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Charles Daniels, Mark Le Brocq (The Fairy Queen), Guillemette Laurens, Jill Feldman, Dominique Visse, Agnes Mellon (Dido and Aeneas), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Label:: Les Arts Florissants
Year of recording ca.:: 1986/1989
Item number:: 11817557
UPC/EAN:: 3149020951637
Release date:: 7.6.2024

In den späten Achtzigerjahren nahmen William Christie und Les Arts Florissants aufregende Versionen zweier Meisterwerke der frühen englischen Oper auf: Purcells Dido and Aeneas und The Fairy Queen. Diese beiden bahnbrechenden Interpretationen sind nun wieder erhältlich, erstmals zusammen in einer Box.

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Disk 1 von 3 (CD)

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

1 Ouvertüre
2 Shake the cloud (1. Akt)
3 Ah! Belinda, I am prest
4 Grief increases by concealing
5 When monarchs unite
6 Whence could so much virtue spring?
7 Fear no danger to ensue
8 See, your royal guest appears
9 Cupid only throws the dart
10 If not for mine
11 Pursue thy conquest
12 To the hills and the vales
13 The triumphing dance
14 Wayward sisters, you that fright (2. Akt)
15 Harm's our delight
16 The Queen of Carthage
17 Ho! Ho! Ho! - Ruin'd ere the set of sun
18 But ere we this perform
19 In our deep vaulted cell
20 Echo dance of furies
21 Ritornell
22 Thanks to these lonesome vales
23 Oft she visits this lone mountain - Ritornell
24 Behold, upon my bending spear
25 Haste, haste to town
26 Stay, prince, and hear great Jove's command
27 Prelude (3. Akt)
28 Come away, fellow sailors
29 See the flags and streamers curling
30 Our next motion
31 Destruction's our delight
32 The witches' dance
33 Your counsel all is urged in vain
34 Great minds against themselves conspire
35 Thy hand, Belinda
36 When I am laid in earth
37 Whith drooping wings ye cupids come

Disk 2 von 3 (CD)

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

1 Prelude
2 Hornpipe
3 Arie
4 Rondeau
5 Ouvertüre
6 Come, let us leave the town (1. Akt)
7 Fill up the bowl
8 Jig
9 Come all ye songsters (2. Akt)
10 Prelude
11 May the God of the wit inspire - Echo
12 Now join your warbling voices all, Sing while we trip it - Dance of the fairies
13 See, even Night herself is here
14 I am come to lock all fast
15 One charming night gives more delight
16 Hush, no more
17 Dance for the followers of Night
18 Air
19 If love's sweet passion (3. Akt)
20 Symphony while the swans come forward
21 Dance for the fairies
22 Dance for the green men
23 Ye gentle spirits of the air
24 Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa
25 When I have heard young maids complaining
26 Dance for the haymakers
27 A thousand, thousand ways
28 Hornpipe