Camilla Tilling - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
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Artist: Camilla TillingComposer: Henry Purcell
Conductor: Emmanuelle Ha?m
Performer: Susan Graham
Performer: Ian Bostridge
Performer: David Daniels
Performer: Paul Agnew
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Music Label: Virgin Veritas
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow
- Banish Sorrow, Banish Care
- Ah! Belinda, I Am Pressed With Torment
- Grief Increases By Concealing
- When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State
- Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?
- Fear No Danger To Ensue
- See, Your Royal Guest Appears
- Cupid Only Throws The Dart
- If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake
- To The Hills And The Vales
- The Triumphing Dance
- Wayward Sisters, You That Fright
- The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate
- Ruined Ere The Set Of Sun? Ho Ho Ho!
- But Ere We This Perform
- In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
- Echo Dance Of Furies
- Ritornelle
- Thanks To These Lonesome Vales
- Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain
- Behold, Upon My Bending Spear
- Haste, Haste To Town
- Stay, Prince, And Hear Great Jove's Command
- Come Away, Fellow Sailors
- The Sailors' Dance
- See The Flags And Streamers Curling
- Our Next Motion
- Destruction's Our Delight
- The Witches' Dance
- Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain
- Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire
- Thy Hand, Belinda; Darkness Shades Me
- When I Am Laid In Earth
- With Drooping Wings
Music reviews of Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Music Review: Haim Goes for Baroque--and WINS!
Rating: 5 Stars
Baroque opera has not been one of my favorite forms of the genre, but this version of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is one that is changing my mind, and would be an excellent introduction to Baroque opera for a newcomer. The music is beautiful and interesting, and Emanuelle Haim's energetic conducting gives the production a pace and drive that is missing from much of the Baroque music I've heard in the past. The ensemble of period instruments (of which I've never been a fan) absolutely comes alive under her leadership. A particular highlight for me was the guitar dance. And the chorus sings with incredible skill and energy--in fact it almost seems as if you are listening to a live performance instead of a "studio" recording.
The cast is uniformly superb. Ian Bostridge makes for a forceful if not particularly likeable Aeneas, (who even in Virgil comes across as a bit of a pompous twit), and Susan Graham is simply compelling as Dido. Not only is her voice absolutely luscious in tone, there is a dramatic edge to it that holds your attention. Her rendition of Dido's Lament would melt the heart of a stone--she is no longer a powerful queen but an emotional train wreck of a woman who can no longer go on living.
There are really no weak links in the cast, which even boasts Dame Felicity Palmer in the small role of the sorceress and David Daniels in the even smaller role of the spirit who shows up to tell Aeneas that he's got other fish to fry and to stop dallying in Carthage with Dido.
The recording quality of this version (recorded in 2003) is excellent and it comes with a very nice libretto with pictures and a fine article on the opera and its composer.
For anyone who thinks that Baroque opera is all tinkly harpsichords and excruciatingly slow and boring music, this recording will come as a revelation.
Description of Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
This new, period instrument version of Purcell's wonderful, brief Dido and Aeneas shows up in a very crowded field. There are close to two dozen other versions available, many of them also historically informed. Here we have a dignified, beautifully sung reading, with instrumentalists performing with a similar sense of loveliness and reserve; indeed, the only time true overt emotionalism shows up is when the witches appear: Felicity Palmer is a nasty handful as the Sorceress. Susan Graham's Dido is elegant and, note-for-note, probably gives us among the best Didos on disc. Ian Bostridge's Aeneas is good without being outstanding; David Daniels and Paul Agnew make remarkable cameos. I prefer the performance led by Ren? Jacobs or starring Janet Baker to this one for sheer drama, but you can't go wrong with Graham, et al, under Emmanuelle Haim's intensely musical leadership either. --Robert LevinePurcell, Henry CDs
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