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Purcell Edition, Vol. 2 - Theatre Music

Rosemary Hardy, Dinah Harris, Jennifer Smith (sopranos), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Martyn Hill, John Elwes (tenors), Stephen Varcoe (baritone) & David Thomas (bass), Carol Hall (mezzo-soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone) & David Thomas, Roderick Earle (basses), Lynne...

The choral singing is especially fine, with the close of the work movingly expressive… for The Tempest, Gardiner demonstrates how delightful it is, a masterly collection, in performances both... — Penguin Guide More…
  • Release Date: 13th Apr 2009
  • Catalogue No: 2564691990
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Purcell Edition
  • Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

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Contents

Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630

Work length1:02:22
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  • Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Martyn Hill (tenor), Rosemary Hardy (soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Ashley Stafford (countertenor)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Act 1 First Air

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Act 1 Second Air

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Act 1 First Hornpipe

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Act 1 Second Hornpipe

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Act 1 Adagio

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Act 1 Allegro

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Act 1 Trumpet Tune

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Act 1 "Wake, Quivera" [Boy]

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Act 1 "Why should men quarrel" [Girl]

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Prologue to Act 1 "By ancient prophecies" [Girl, Boy]

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Prologue to Act 1 Trumpet Tune

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Act 2 Canzona

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Act 2 Adagio

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Act 2 Allegro

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Act 2 "I come to sing great Zempoalla Story" [Fame]

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Act II - Air "What flattering noise is this"

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Act 2 "Scorn'd Envy, here's nothing" [Fame]

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Act 2 "I fly from the place" [Envy]

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Act 2 "Begone, curst fiends of Hell" [Fame]

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Act 2 "I come to sing" [Fame]

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Act 3 Air

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Act 3 Minuet

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Act 3 "Ye twice ten hundred deities" [Ismeron]

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Act 3 Symphony for hautboys

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Act 3 "Seek not to know" [God of Dreams]

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Act 3 Trumpet Overture

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Act 3 "Ah, how happy are we" [1st & 2nd aerial spirits]

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Act 3 "We the spirits of the Air" [3rd & 4th aerial spirits]

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Act 3 "I attempt from love's sickness" [Soprano]

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Act 3 Air [Spirits of the air, Chorus]

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Act 3 Third Act Tune

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Act 4 "They tell us that your mighty powers" [Soprano] Fourth Act Tune

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Act 4 "While thus we bow" [High Priest]

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Purcell: The Tempest, Z631

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  • Roderick Earle (bass), Rosemary Hardy (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), John Elwes (tenor), Carol Hall (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), David Thomas (bass)
  • Monteverdi Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Overture

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Act 2 "Where does the black fiend" [First Devil, Second Devil, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Around, around we pace" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Arise, ye subterranean winds" [First Devil]

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Act 2 Dance of Winds

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Act 3 "Comme unto these yellow sands" [Ariel, Chorus]

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Act 3 "Full fathom five" [Ariel, Chorus]

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Act 3 "Dry those eyes" [Ariel]

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Act 3 "Kind fortune smiles" [Ariel]

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Act 4 Dance of Devils

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Act 4 The sailor's dance

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Act 4 "Dear pretty youth" [Dorinda]

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Act 5 "Great neptune!" [Amphitrite, Neptune]

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Act 5 "The nereids and Tritons" [Chorus]

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Act 5 "Aeolus, you must appear" [Neptune]

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Act 5 "Your awful voice I hear" [Aeolus]

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Act 5 "Halcyon days" [Amphitrite]

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Act 5 "See, see, the heavens smile" [Neptune]

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Act 5 "No stars again shall hurt you" [Amphitrite, Neptune, Chorus]

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Purcell: The Married Beau: Overture

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  • English Baroque Soloists
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Rondeau from Abdelazer

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  • English Baroque Soloists
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Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z632

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  • Lynne Dawson (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael George (bass)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Overture to The Masque

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I "Hark! how the songsters of the grove" [2 Nymphs]

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II "Love in their little veins [Nymph]

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The Masque "But ah! how much are our delights" [Two Nymphs, Shepherd]

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IV "Hence with your trifling deity!" [A Bacchanal] "But over us no griefs prevail" [Three Bacchanals]

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V "Come all, come all to me" [Cupid]

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VI "Who can resist" [Chorus]

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VII "Return, revolting rebels!" [Bacchus]

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VIII "The care of lovers" [A Nymph]

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IX "Love quickly is pall'd" [A Bacchanal]

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X "Come, let us agree" [Cupid, Bacchus, Chorus]

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Curtain Tune

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Purcell: Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627

Work length1:31:30
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  • Paul Elliott (tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Michael George (bass), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

First Music

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Second Music

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Overture to Act 1

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Act 1 First Act Tune

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Act 2 "Great Diocles" [Bass, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Charon, the peaceful shade" [Woman] "Let all mankind the pleasure share" [Chorus, Soprano, Bass]

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Act 2 "Let the soldiers rejoice" [Tenor, Chorus]

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Act 2 "To Mars let'em raise" [Tenor, Bass, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Since the tolis " [Tenor] "Let the priests" [Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus]

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Act 2 Dance of Furies

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Act 2 Second Act Tune

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Act 3 Chaconne

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Act 3 "When first I saw" [Soprano]

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Act 3 The Chair Dance

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Act 3 "What shall I do" [Soprano]

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Act 3 Third Act Tune

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Act 4 Butterfly Dance

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Act 4 Trumpet Tune

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Act 4 "Sound, Fame" [Tenor, Chorus]

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Act 4 Fourth Act Tune

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Act 5 Country Dance

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Act 5 Prelude to The Masque "Call the Nymphs" [Cupid, Chorus]

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Act 5 "Come, come away" [A Bacchanalian, A Silvan]

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Act 5 Prelude & Chorus : "Behold, O mightiest of Gods"

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Act 5 "Ah the sweet delights of love" [2 Wood-Gods]

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Act 5 "Let monarchs fight" [A Faun]

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Act 5 "Since from my dear" [Another Faun]

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Act 5 "Make room" [Two of Bacchus' followers, Bacchus] "Give to every one" [Tenor, Bass, Chorus] Dance of Bacchanals

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Act 5 One of Cupid's Followers [Tenor]

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Act 5 "Tell me why my charming fair" [Shepherd, Shepherdess]

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Act 5 Dance

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Act 5 "All our days" [Tenor, Chorus] "Let us dance" [Soprano]

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Act 5 "Triumph, victorious love" [Tenor, Tenor, Bass, Chorus]

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