Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess - Orchestral Suites [Hybrid SACD]

Muzyka Barokowa
premiera polska: 2009-06-25
seria wydawnicza: Alia Vox Heritage
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Hiszpania
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
opis:
Editor's Info:
The English were latecomers to the opera. Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, one might have expected the theatrical establishment to embrace the new genre enthusiastically: after all, things foreign were once again in fashion. Charles II himself established a troupe of string players in frank imitation of Louis XIV’s Vingt-Quatre Violons du Roi, while in France itself, Italian opera, having been successfully transplanted, soon thrived in its new soil. But for some reason, the first attempts at popularizing opera in England (whether in Italian or in the vernacular) were failures. Instead, the practice of introducing incidental music within plays and masques assumed increasing importance. Such music could either set the action (in the manner of an Overture), comment upon it (in the case of vocal numbers), or else accompany danced items; but in any case its relationship to the plot was often peripheral. Midway between this simpler kind of incidental music and the full-blown opera stands the semi-opera, an indigenous genre borne largely out of fashionable aversion to opera itself: after all, the expense of a fully-staged production of The Fairy Queen would have been at least comparable to operatic extravaganzas on the continent.

muzycy:
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall

utwory:
1. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: First Musick
2. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: Second Musick
3. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: Symphony for Trumpets & Violins
4. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: Retornella
5. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: Dance of the Furies: Soft music - Dance
6. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: The Chair Dance
7. Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, semi-opera, Z. 627: Retornella
8. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: First Act Suite: First Music: Prelude (1)
9. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: First Act Suite: Hornpipe (2)
10. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: First Act Suite: Second Music: Air (3)
11. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: First Act Suite: Rondeau (4)
12. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: First Act Suite: Overture (5)
13. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: First Act Suite: First Act Tune: Jig (8)
14. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Second Act Suite: A Prelude (9)
15. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Second Act Suite: A Bird's Prelude (10)
16. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Second Act Suite: Echo (12)
17. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Second Act Suite: A Fairies Dances (13)
18. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Second Act Suite: A Dance of the Followers of Night (18)
19. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Second Act Suite: Second Act Tune: Air (19)
20. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Third Act Suite: Prelude "Love's a Sweet Passion" (20)
21. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Third Act Suite: Overture: Symphony while the swans come forward (21)
22. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Third Act Suite: Dance for the Fairies (22)
23. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Third Act Suite: Dance for the Green men (23)
24. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Third Act Suite: A dance for the Haymakers (27)
25. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Third Act Suite: Third Act tune: hornpipe (29)
26. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fourth Act Suite: Symphony: Prelude, Canzona, Largo, Allegro, Adagio, Adagio (30)
27. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fourth Act Suite: Entry of Phoebus (33)
28. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fourth Act Suite: Fourth Act Tune: Air (40)
29. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fifth Act Suite: Prelude (41)
30. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fifth Act Suite: Entry Dance (44)
31. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fifth Act Suite: Symphony (45)
32. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fifth Act Suite: Monkey's Dance (49)
33. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fifth Act Suite: Chaconne: Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman (57)
34. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fifth Act Suite: Fifth Act Tune (59)

wydano: 2009-05
nagrano: Recorded in 1996
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