Henry Purcell: Timon of Athens (Theatermusik) (2 CDs)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

2 CDs

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+Dioclesian Dawson, Fisher, Covey-Crump, Elliott, George, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner

Artists:: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Label:: Erato
Year of recording ca.:: 1987
Item number:: 6761793
UPC/EAN:: 4943674204281
Release date:: 8.4.2015

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Reviews

F.P.Messmer in FonoForum 4/89:"Insgesamt überzeugt diese Einspielung durch die Verbin- dung von hervorragenden solistischen Leis- tungen mit einem Teamwork, wie es offenbar nur in England möglich ist. Das allegorisch- mythische Theater des Barock wird zu einem künstlerischen Ereignis, zu einer beglücken- den Enführung des Hörers nach Arkadien. Klangbild:Gute Raumwirkung,transparent,aus- gewogen."

Disk 1 von 2 (CD)

1 Timon of Athens : Overture
2 Timon of Athens : A symphony of Pipes... "Hark ! how the songsters of the grove" (2 nymphs)
3 Timon of Athens : "Love in their little veins inspires" (a nymph)
4 Timon of Athens : "But ah ! how much are our delights" (2 nymphs, a shepherd)
5 Timon of Athens : "Hence with your trifling deity" (a bacchanal) - "But over us no griefs prevail" (3 bacchanals)
6 Timon of Athens : "Come all, come all to me" (Cupid)
7 Timon of Athens : "Who can resist" (choir)
8 Timon of Athens : "Return revolting rebels" (Bacchus)
9 Timon of Athens : "The care of lovers" (a nymph)
10 Timon of Athens : "Love quickly is pall'd" (a Bacchanal)
11 Timon of Athens : "Come, let us agree" (Cupid, Bacchus)
12 Timon of Athens : Curtain Tune
13 Dioclesian : First music
14 Dioclesian : Second music
15 Dioclesian : Overture
16 Dioclesian : Act I - First Act tune
17 Dioclesian : Act II - First song "Great Diocles"
18 Dioclesian : Act II - Second song "Charon, the peaceful shade" - Symphony - Duet "Let all mankind the pleasure share"
19 Dioclesian : Act II - Martial song "Let the soldiers rejoice"
20 Dioclesian : Act II - Ritornello - Trio "To Mars let'em raise" - Ritornello
21 Dioclesian : Act II - "A symphony of flutes in the air" Song - Quartet
22 Dioclesian : Act II - Dance of furies
23 Dioclesian : Act II - Second Act tune
24 Dioclesian : Act Iii - Chaconne

Disk 2 von 2 (CD)

1 Dioclesian : Act Iii - Song "when First I Saw"
2 Dioclesian : Act Iii - The Chair Dance
3 Dioclesian : Act Iii - Song "what Shall I Do"
4 Dioclesian : Act Iii - Third Act Tune
5 Dioclesian : Act IV - Butterfly Dance
6 Dioclesian : Act IV - Trumpet Tune
7 Dioclesian : Act IV - Song "Sound Fame"
8 Dioclesian : Act IV - Fourth Act Tune
9 Dioclesian : Act V - Country Dance
10 Dioclesian : Act V - Prelude
11 Dioclesian : Act V - A Bacchanalian and a Silvan "Come, come away"
12 Dioclesian : Act V - First Entry: Prelude & Chorus, Paspe
13 Dioclesian : Act V - Two Wood-Gods "Ah the sweet delights of love"
14 Dioclesian : Act V - A Faun "Let monarchs fight"
15 Dioclesian : Act V - Another Faun "Since from my dear"
16 Dioclesian : Act V - Second entry - Two of Bacchus followers "Make room" - Trio "give to everyone" - Dance of Bacchanals
17 Dioclesian : Act V - One of Cupid's followers
18 Dioclesian : Act V - Third Entry - Canaries - Dialogue : Shepherd & shepherdess "Tell me why my charming fair"
19 Dioclesian : Act V - Fourth Entry - Dance
20 Dioclesian : Act V - One of the pleasures "All our days" - Another of the pleasures "Let us dance"
21 Dioclesian : Act V - Fifth Entry - Dance - Trio "Triumph, victorious love" - Chorus