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Purcell Edition, Vol. 1 - Theatre Music

Véronique Gens (Dido), Nathan Berg (Aeneas), Sophie Marin-Degor (Belinda), Claire Brua (Sorceress), Sophie Daneman (Second Woman/First Witch), Gaëlle Méchaly (Second Witch), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Spirit/Sailor), Claron McFadden, Sandrine Piau, Susannah Waters (sopranos), Iain Paton, Mark Padmore...

The vigour of Purcell's inspiration in this semi-opera has never been more winningly conveyed — Penguin Guide
  • Release Date: 9th Mar 2009
  • Catalogue No: 2564692016
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Purcell Edition
  • Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

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Contents

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Work length44:55
$31.20
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  • Véronique Gens (soprano), Gaëlle Mechaly (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Sophie Marin-Degor (soprano), Nathan Berg (baritone), Claire Brua (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano)
  • Choeur des Arts Florissants, Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Overture

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Act I "Shake the cloud from off your brow" [Belinda, Chorus]

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Act I "Ah Belinda, I am press'd with torment" [Dido]

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Act I "Grief increases by concealing" [Belinda, Dido] "When monarchs unite, how happy their state" [Chorus]

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Act I "Whence could so much virtue spring?" [Dido, Belinda]

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Act I "Fear no danger to ensue" [Belinda, Chorus]

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Act I "See our royal guest appears" [Belinda, Aeneas] "Cupid only throws the dart" [Chorus]

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Act I "If not for mine, for Empire's sake" [Aeneas] "Pursue thy conquest, Love" [Belinda] "To the hills and the vales" [Chorus]

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Act I "The Triumphing Dance"

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Act 2 Prelude for the Witches "Wayward sisters, you that fright" [Sorceress] "Harm's our delight" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "The Queen of Carthage" ... "Ho! ho! ho!" [Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus]

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Act 2 "But ere we this perform" [First Witch, Second Witch]

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Act 1 "In our deep vaulted cell... Echo Dance of Furies" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Ritornelle" "Thanks to these lonesome vales" [Belinda, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Oft she visits this lone mountain" [Second Woman]

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Act 2 "Behold upon my bending spear" [Aeneas, Dido] "Haste, haste to town" [Belinda, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Stay Prince" [Spirit, Aeneas]

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Act 2 "Then since our chorus have sped" [Chorus] "The Grove's Dance"

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Act 3 "Come away" [Sailor, Chorus] "The Sailors' Dance"

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Act 3 "See, see the flags" [Sorceress, First Witch] "Our next motion" [Sorceress]

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Act 3 "Destruction's our delight" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "The Witches' Dance"

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Act 3 "Your counsel all is urged in vain" [Dido, Belinda, Aeneas]

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Act 3 "Great minds against themselves conspire" [Chorus] "Thy hand, Belinda" [Dido]

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Purcell: When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

Work length3:54
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  • Véronique Gens (soprano)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "With drooping wings" [Chorus]

Work length2:42
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  • Choeur des Arts Florissants, Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Purcell: King Arthur, Z628

Work length34:55
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  • Véronique Gens (soprano), Susannah Waters (soprano), Petteri Salomaa (bass), Mark Padmore (tenor), Iain Paton (tenor), Claron McFadden (soprano), Jonathan Best (bass), Sandrine Piau (soprano), François Bazola (bass)
  • Les Arts Florissants, Choeur des Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Overture to Act 1

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Air

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Act 1 "Woden, first to thee" [Bass, Chorus]

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Act 1 "The white horse neigh'd aloud" [Bass, Tenor, Chorus]

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Act 1 "The lot is cast, and Tanfan pleas'd" [Soprano]

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Act 1 "Brave souls, to be renown'd in story" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "I call you all to Woden's Hall" [Tenor, Chorus]

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Act 1 "Come if you dare" [Tenor, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Hither, this way, this way bend" [Soprano, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Let not a moonborn elf mislead ye" [Bass] "Hither this way, this way bend" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Come, follow me" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]

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Act 2 "How blest are shepherds" [Tenor, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying" [Sopranos]

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Act 2 "Come, shepherds, lead up a lively measure" [Chorus] Hornpipe

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Air

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Act 3 Prelude

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Act 3 "What ho! thou genius of this isle" [Soprano]

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Purcell: King Arthur, Act 3: "What power art thou" [Bass]

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  • Petteri Salomaa (bass)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Purcell: King Arthur, Z628

Work length53:01
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  • Susannah Waters (soprano), Petteri Salomaa (bass), Claron McFadden (soprano), Iain Paton (tenor), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Jonathan Best (bass), François Bazola (bass), Mark Padmore (tenor), Véronique Gens (soprano)
  • Choeur des Arts Florissants, Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Act 3 "Thou doting fool" [Soprano]

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Act 3 "Great love, I know thee now" [Bass]

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Act 3 "No part of my dominion" [Soprano]

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Act 3 Prelude

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Act 3 "See, see, we assemble" [Chorus] Dance

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Act 3 "Tis I that have warm'd ye" [Soprano] "Tis love that has warm'd us" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "Sound a parley" [Soprano, Bass] "Tis Love that has warm'd us" [Chorus]

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Act 3 Hornpipe

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Act 4 "Two daughters of this aged stream are we" [Sopranos]

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Act 4 "How happy the lover" [Tenor, Chorus] Ritornello "For love every creature" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus] "In vain are our graces" [Chorus]

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Act 4 Air

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Act 5 Trumpet Tune

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Act 5 "Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies" [Bass]

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Act 5 Symphony

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Act 5 "Round thy coast" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]

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Act 5 "For folded flocks, and fruitful plains" [Tenors, Bass]

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Act 5 "Your hay it is mow'd" [Bass, Chorus]

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Act 5 "Fairest Isle" [Soprano]

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Act 5 "You say 'tis Love" [Soprano, Bass]

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Act 5 Trumpet Tune - Warlike Consort

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Act 5 "Saint George" [Soprano, Chorus]

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Act 5 "Our natives not alone appear" [Chorus]

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Act 5 Chaconne

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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Work length1:59:18
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  • Anthony Michaels-Moore (bass), Laurence Dale (tenor), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus (soprano), Robert Holl (bass), Michael Chance (countertenor), Sylvia McNair (soprano)
  • Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Prelude to Act 1

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Air

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Overture to Act 1

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Act 1 "Come, let us leave the town" [Soprano, Bass]

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Act 1 "Scene of the Drunken Poet" [First Fairy, Second Fairy, Drunken Poet, Chorus]

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Act 1 Jig

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Act 2 "Come all ye songsters of the sky" [Tenor]

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Act 2 "May the God of Wit inspire" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass]

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Act 2 "Now join your warbling voices all" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Sing while we trip it" [Chorus, Soprano]

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Act 2 "See, even Night herself is here" [Night] "I am come to lock all fast" [Mystery] "One charming night" [Secrecy] "Hush, no more" [Sleep, Chorus]

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Act 2 Air

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Act 3 "If love's a sweet passion" [Dryad, Chorus]

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Act 3 Symphony while the swans come forward

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Act 3 Dance for the Fairies

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Act 3 Dance for the Green Men

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Act 3 "Ye gentle spirits of the air" [Soprano]

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Act 3 "Now the maids and the men" [Coridon, Mopsa] Dance for the Haymakers

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Act 3 "When I have often heard" [Nymph]

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Act 3 "A thousand, thousand ways" [Chorus, Counter-Tenor]

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Act 3 Hornpipe

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Act 4 Symphony

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Act 4 "Now the night is chased away" [Attendant, Chorus]

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Act 4 "Let the fifes and the clarions" [Tenor, Counter-Tenor]

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Act 4 "When a cruel long winter" [Phoebus]

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Act 4 "Hail! Great parent of us all" [Chorus]

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Act 5 "Thrice happy lovers" [Juno]

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Act 5 "O let me ever, ever weep" [Soprano]

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Act 5 "Thus the gloomy world" [Chinese Man] "Thus happy and free" [Chinese Woman, Chorus] "Yes, Daphne" [Chinese Man]

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Act 5 Monkey's Dance

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Act 5 "Hark! How all things" [First Woman] "Hark! the echoing air" [Second Woman, Chorus]

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Act 5 "Sure the dull God of Marriage" [First Woman, Second Woman, Chorus] Prelude "See, I obey" [Hymen] "Turn then thine eyes" [First Woman, Second Woman] "My torch indeed" [Hymen]

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Act 5 Chaconne

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Act 5 "They shall be as happy as they're fair" [First Woman, Second Woman, Hymen, Chorus]

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