Purcell - Dido & Aeneas / Gens, Marin-Degor, N. Berg, Brua, Daneman, Fouchécourt, Méchaly, Les Arts Florissants, Christie

Purcell - Dido & Aeneas / Gens, Marin-Degor, N. Berg, Brua, Daneman, Fouchécourt, Méchaly, Les Arts Florissants, Christie

Purcell - Dido & Aeneas / Gens, Marin-Degor, N. Berg, Brua, Daneman, Fouchécourt, Méchaly, Les Arts Florissants, Christie
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Composer: Henry Purcell
Conductor: William Christie
Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants
Performer: Veronique Gens
Performer: Sophie Marin-Degor
Performer: Nathan Berg
Performer: Sophie Daneman
Performer: Jean-Paul Fouchecourt
Performer: Steve Dugardin Gaelle Mechaly
Performer: Jonathan Arnold Claire Brua
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1995-03-07
Music Label: Erato
Soundtracks:
  1. Dido & Aeneas: Overture
  2. Dido & Aeneas: 'Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow'
  3. Dido & Aeneas: 'Ah Belinda, I Am Press'd With Torment'
  4. Dido & Aeneas: 'Grief Increases By Concealing'
  5. Dido & Aeneas: 'Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?'
  6. Dido & Aeneas: 'Fear No Danger To Ensue'
  7. Dido & Aeneas: 'See Our Royal Guest Appears'
  8. Dido & Aeneas: 'If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake' - 'Pursue Thy Conquest, Love' - 'To The Hills And The Vales'
  9. Dido & Aeneas: The Triumphing Dance
  10. Dido & Aeneas: Prelude For The Witches - Prelude Des Sorieres - Vorspiel Der Hexen 'Wayward Sisters, You That Fright'
  11. Dido & Aeneas: 'The Queen of Carthage' - 'Ho! Ho! Ho!' - Ruin'D EreThe Set Of Sun?' - 'Ho! Ho! Ho!'
  12. Dido & Aeneas: 'But Ere We This Perform'
  13. Dido & Aeneas: 'In Our Deep Vaulted Cell'
  14. Dido & Aeneas: Ritornelle - Ritournelle - Ritornell - 'Thanks To These Lonesome Vales'
  15. Dido & Aeneas: 'Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain'
  16. Dido & Aeneas: 'Behold Upon My Bending Spear' - 'Haste, Haste To Town'
  17. Dido & Aeneas: 'Stay Prince'
  18. Dido & Aeneas: 'Then Since Our Chorus Have Sped' - 'The Grove's Dance - La Danse Des Bosquets - Der Tanz Der Walder
  19. Dido & Aeneas: 'Come Away'
  20. Dido & Aeneas: 'See, See The Flags' - 'Our Next Motion'
  21. Dido & Aeneas: 'Destruction's Our Delight'
  22. Dido & Aeneas: 34. The Witches' Dance -La Danse Des Sorcieres - Der Tanz Der Hexen
  23. Dido & Aeneas: 'Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain'
  24. Dido & Aeneas: 'Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire' - 'Thy Hand, Belinda'
  25. Dido & Aeneas: 'When I Am Laid In Earth'
  26. Dido & Aeneas: 'With Drooping Wings'

Description of Purcell - Dido & Aeneas / Gens, Marin-Degor, N. Berg, Brua, Daneman, Fouchécourt, Méchaly, Les Arts Florissants, Christie

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is one of the very few 17th-century works to have entered the operatic "canon" and developed a modern performance tradition before the late 20th century's early-music revival. For listeners who had grown fond of this opera in its "traditional" form, the period-instrument recordings of recent years have provided some odd surprises: an all-female cast (excepting Aeneas); a baritone Sorceress; singing in a style closer to a Restoration playhouse than Covent Garden. William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, however, provide a stylish and lively period-instrument Dido with no casting surprises--to wit, the male roles are sung by men and the female roles by women, all of whom sound like classically trained singers. The only surprise, in fact, is how well the largely Francophone cast sings in English. (Only Jean-Paul Fouchécourt as the Sailor has a heavy accent.) Sophie Marin-Dégor is a nimble Belinda, Nathan Berg a virile Aeneas. While the Enchantresses are played for low comedy, Claire Brua portrays the Sorceress with snake-like slipperiness and venom; fast-rising star Véronique Gens gives us a Queen Dido combining regal dignity with youthful sweetness and emotion. --Matthew Westphal

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