Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen & Dido and Aeneas
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
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- Künstler: 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, DDD, 1986/1989
- Bestellnummer: 11817557
- Erscheinungstermin: 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.
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
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
Disk 3 von 3 (CD)
- 1 Symphony (4. Akt)
- 2 Now the night is chased away - Let the fifes and the clarions
- 3 Entry of Phoebus
- 4 When a cruel long winter - Hail! great parent of us all
- 5 Thus the ever grateful Spring
- 6 Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay
- 7 See, see my many colour'd fields
- 8 Next winter comes slowly
- 9 Fourth act tune: Air
- 10 Prelude (5. Akt)
- 11 Thrice happy lovers
- 12 The plaint: O let me weep!
- 13 Entry dance
- 14 Symphony
- 15 Thus the gloomy world
- 16 Thus happy and free
- 17 Yes, Daphne
- 18 Monkeys' dance
- 19 Hark! How all things with one sound rejoice
- 20 Hark! The echoing air a triumph sings
- 21 Sure the dull God of marriage does not hear
- 22 See, I obey
- 23 Turn then thine eyes
- 24 My torch indeed will from such brightness shine
- 25 They shall be as happy as they are fair
- 26 Chaconne
- 27 They shall be as happy as they are fair
