Purcell: The Indian Queen
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Composer: Daniel PurcellComposer: Henry Purcell
Performer: Scholars Baroque Ensemble
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-12
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- First Music, First Aire
- First Music, Second Aire
- Second Music, First Aire
- Second Music, Second Aire
- Overture
- Prologue, Act 1, Trumpet Tune
- Prologue, Act 1, Solo: "Wake, Quivera, wake"
- Prologue, Act 1, Solo: "Why should men quarrel?"
- Prologue, Act 1, Solo: "By ancient prophesies"
- Prologue, Act 1, Duet: "If these be they"
- Prologue, Act 1, Trumpet tune
- Act 2, Symphony
- Act 2, Solo & Chorus: "I come to sing"
- Act 2, Trio: "What flatt'ring noise"
- Act 2, Solo: "Scorn'd Envy"
- Act 2, Solo: "I fly from the place"
- Act 2, Solo: "Begone, curst fiends of Hell"
- Act 2, Dance, Solo, & Chorus: "I come to sing great Zempoalla's story"
- Act 3, Dance
- Act 3, Solo: "You twice ten hundred deities"
- Act 3, The God of Dreams rises
- Act 3, Solo: "Seek not to know"
- Act 3, The God of Dreams descends
- Act 3, Trumpet Overture
- Act 3, Duet: "Ah! how happy are we"
- Act 3, Duet: We the spirits of the air"
- Act 3, Solo: "I attempt from Love's sickness"
- Act 3, Third Act Tune
- Act 4, Prelude & Song: "They tell us that your mighty powers"
- Act 5, Symphony
- Act 5, Chorus: "While thus we bow"
- Act 5, Solo: "You, who at the altar stand"
- Act 5, Symphony & Chorus: "All dismal sounds"
- Final Act, Trumpet Symphony
- Final Act, Solo: "To bless the genial bed"
- Final Act, Solo & Chorus: "Come, all, come at my call"
- Final Act, Duet: "I am glad I have met him"
- Final Act, Solo: "Good people"
- Final Act, Duet: "My honey"
- Final Act, Solo: "The joys of wedlock"
- Final Act, Solo: "Sound the trumpet"
- Final Act, Duet: "Make haste to put on love's chains"
- Final Act, Trumpet Air
- Final Act, Chorus: "Let loud Renown"
Music reviews of Purcell: The Indian Queen
Music Review: Back before Copyrights
Rating: 5 Stars
In the time of Henry and Daniel Purcell, a composer could choose any libretto he wanted, even if someone else had used it already. Another composer could pick up his work, in turn, and graft onto it.
Such was the History of The Indian Queen (actually 'Musik for the Indian Queen'). A mid-17th century masterpiece of the English baroque style, it stands well in comparison to Dowland, Clarke, Morley and such contemporaries.
This work is what's known as a semi-opera. The form was just evolving; pioneered, most scholars agree, by Monteverdi's 1607 L'Orfeo. In fact, The Indian Queen is more reminiscent of the concert suite of L'Orfeo (w. Rodriguez), than of a full opera. The Queen, even with the posthumous-to-Purcell grafting of brother Daniel's The Mask of Hymen, remains a listenable under-80-minutes.
The vocals on this performance and excellent, even if the plot of the libretto is thin and historical nonsense. Period instruments are well-used and well-directed. Quality of the CD is ample. The price is a BARGAIN!
For any fan of the genre, the period, or music history!
Description of Purcell: The Indian Queen
"Mr. Purcell's" new music for the 1695 revival of Dryden's The Indian Queen is an unqualified delight. The Scholars Baroque Ensemble is a period-performance repertory group that approaches the score with cheerfully infectious enthusiasm. The results are charming. The Indian Queen is Purcell's last theater piece, and whether it was performed before or just after his untimely death at the age of 35 is uncertain. The first performance used his younger brother Daniel's Masque of Hymen as a conclusion; most performances and recordings do the same, and even if Daniel is noticeably the lesser of the two composers, the stylistic "fit" is excellent. Very good sound. --Paul TurokGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( P ) > Purcell, Henry
- Forms & Genres > Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music > Incidental Music
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Composers > Purcell, Henry
- General
- Classical - Historical Periods - Baroque (c.1600-1750) - Composers - Purcell, Henry - General
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