Les Arts Florissants, William Christie - Purcell: The Fairy Queen & Dido and Aeneas [3CD]

Klasyczna Muzyka Barokowa / Muzyka Wokalna
premiera polska: 2024-06-21
opakowanie: Box Setowe etui
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Editor's info
In the late 1980s, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded galvanising versions of two masterpieces of early English opera: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. These two seminal interpretations are now available again, coupled for the first time in a single boxed set.

muzycy:
Guillemette Laurens (Dido), Jill Feldman (Belinda), Philippe Cantor (Aeneas), Dominique Visse (Sorceress), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

utwory:
CD1 - Dido and Aeneas:
1. Overture 2’03
2. ACT I - Solo and Chorus: Shake the cloud (Belinda) 1’05
3. ACT I - Song: Ah! Belinda, I am prest (Dido) 3’49
4. ACT I - Recitative: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda) 0’35
5. ACT I - Chorus: When monarchs unite 0’14
6. ACT I - Recitative: Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido) 2’07
7. ACT I - Duet and Chorus: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, Second Woman) 1’35
8. ACT I - Recitative: See, your Royal Guest appears (Belinda) 0’48
9. ACT I - Chorus: Cupid only throws the dart 0’28
10. ACT I - Recitative: If not for mine (Aeneas) 0’22
11. ACT I - Air: Pursue thy conquest (Belinda) 0’49
12. ACT I - Chorus: To the hills and the vales 1’08
13. ACT I - The Triumphing Dance 1’17
14. ACT II - Prelude for the Witches: Wayward Sisters, you that fright (Sorceress, First Witch) 1’56
15. ACT II - Chorus: Harm’s our delight 0’16
16. ACT II - Recitative: The Queen of Carthage (Sorceress) 0’29
17. ACT II - Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho! – Recitative: Ruin’d ere the set of sun (Two Witches, Sorceress) 1’24
18. ACT II - Duet: But ere we this perform (Two Witches) 1’09
19. ACT II - Chorus: In our deep vaulted cell 1’37
20. ACT II - Echo Dance of Furies 0’59
21. ACT II - Ritornelle 0’30
22. ACT II - Song and Chorus: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda) 3’29
23. ACT II - Song: Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman) – Ritornelle 1’56
24. ACT II - Recitative: Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas) 0’31
25. ACT II - Song and Chorus: Haste, haste to town (Belinda) 0’50
26. ACT II - Recitative: Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command (Spirit) 2’40
27. ACT III - Prelude 1’35
28. ACT III - Solo and Chorus: Come away, fellow sailors (First Sailor) 0’47
29. ACT III - Recitative: See the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress) 1’12
30. ACT III - Song: Our next motion (Sorceress) 0’37
31. ACT III - Chorus: Destruction’s our delight 0’34
32. ACT III - The Witches’ Dance 1’27
33. ACT III - Recitative: Your counsel all is urged in vain (Dido) 4’01
34. ACT III - Chorus: Great minds against themselves conspire 1’02
35. ACT III - Recitative: Thy hand, Belinda (Dido) 1’09
36. ACT III - Song: When I am laid in earth (Dido’s lament) 4’07
37. ACT III - Chorus: With drooping wings ye Cupids come 2’57

CD2 - The Fairy Queen:
1. First Musick - Prelude 1’30
2. First Musick - Hornpipe 0’50
3. Second Musick - Air 0’58
4. Second Musick - Rondeau 1’40
5. Second Musick - Overture 1’25
6. ACT I - Duet: Come, let us leave the town 1’43
7. ACT I - Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the bowl 6’00
8. ACT I - First Act Tune: Jig 1’03
9. ACT II - Come all ye songsters 2’30
10. ACT II - Prelude 1’20
11. ACT II - Chorus: May the God of Wit inspire 2’25
12. ACT II - Echo
13. ACT II - Chorus: Now join your warbling voices all, Sing while we trip it 2’53
14. Dance of Fairies - Entrance of Night: See, even Night herself is here 4’48
15. Dance of Fairies - Entrance of Mystery: I am come to lock all fast 0’52
16. Dance of Fairies - Entrance of Secrecy: One charming night gives more delight 2’22
17. Dance of Fairies - Entrance of Sleep: Hush, no more 5’02
18. Dance of Fairies - Dance for the followers of Night 1’22
19. Dance of Fairies - Second Act Tune: Air 1’25
20. ACT III - If love’s a sweet passion 5’15
21. ACT III - Symphony while the swans come forward 1’30
22. ACT III - Dance for the Fairies 0’45
23. ACT III - Dance for the Green Men 1’45
24. ACT III - Ye gentle spirits of the air 5’00
25. ACT III - Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa 3’30
26. ACT III - When I have often heard young maids complaining 2’00
27. ACT III - Dance for the Haymakers 0’50
28. ACT III - A thousand, thousand ways 2’13
29. ACT III - Third Act Tune: Hornpipe 0’50

CD3 - The Fairy Queen:
30. ACT IV - Symphony 6’25
31. ACT IV - Now the night is chased away / 32. Let the Fifes and the Clarions 3’15
33. ACT IV - Entry of Phoebus 0’35
34. ACT IV - When a cruel long winter / 35. Chorus: Hail! great parent of us all 5’02
36. ACT IV - Spring: Thus the ever grateful Spring 2’13
37. ACT IV - Summer: Here’s the Summer, sprightly, gay 1’30
38. ACT IV - Autumn: See, see my many colour’d fields 2’40
39. ACT IV - Winter: Next Winter comes slowly 3’38
40. ACT IV - Fourth Act Tune: Air 1’02
41. ACT V - Prelude 1’10
42. ACT V - Juno: Thrice happy lovers 2’50
43. ACT V - The Plaint: O let me weep! 8’15
44. ACT V - Entry Dance 1’25
45. ACT V - Symphony 1’00
46. ACT V - A Chinese Man: Thus the gloomy world 4’05
47. ACT V - Chinese Woman: Thus happy and free 0’45
48. ACT V - Chinese Man: Yes, Daphne 1’50
49. ACT V - Monkeys’ Dance 0’53
50. ACT V - Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice 2’05
51. ACT V - Hark! the echoing air a triumph sings 2’30
52. ACT V - Sure the dull God of Marriage does not hear 2’30
53. ACT V - Prelude / 54. Hymen: See, I obey 1’47
55. ACT V - Turn then thine eyes 0’40
56. ACT V - Hymen: My torch indeed will from such brightness shine 0’45
57. ACT V - They shall be as happy as they are fair 0’50
58. ACT V - Chaconne 2’40
59. ACT V - They shall be as happy as they are fair 0’50

wydano: 7th Jun 2024