Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington
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Composer: Henry PurcellConductor: Roger Norrington
Orchestra: London Classical Players
Performer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Performer: Susan Bickley
Performer: Howard Crook
Performer: David Wilson-Johnson
Performer: Mark Padmore
Performer: Catherine Pierard
Performer: Richard Wistreich
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Music Label: Virgin Veritas
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prelude
- Hornpipe
- Air
- Rondeau
- Overture
- Come, let us leave the town
- Scene of the drunken poet
- First Act Tune: Jig
- Come all ye songsters
- Prelude
- May the God of Wit inspire
- Echo
- Now joyn your Warbling Voices
- Sing while we trip it
- See, even Night herself is here
- I am come to lock all fast
- One charming night
- Hush, no more
- Dance for the Followers of Night
- Second Act Tune: Air
- If Love's a Sweet Passion
- Overture: Symphony while the Swans come forward
- Dance for the Fairies
- Dance for the Green Men
- Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air
- Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa
- Dance for the Haymakers
- When I have often heard
- A Thousand, Thousand Ways
- Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
- Symphony
- Now the Night
- Let the Fifes, and the Clarions
- Entry of Phoebus
- When a cruel long Winter
- Hail! Great Parent
- Thus the ever Grateful Spring
- Here's the Summer
- See, see my many Colour'd Fields
- Now Winter comes Slowly
- Hail! Great Parent
- Fourth Act Tune: Air
- Prelude
- Epithalamium: Thrice happy Lovers
- The Plaint - O Let me weep
- Entry Dance
- Symphony
- Thus the gloomy World
- Yes, Daphne
- Monkeys' Dance
- Hark, how all things
- Hark, now the Echoing Air
- Sure the dull God
- Prelude
- See, see, I obey
- Turn then thine Eyes
- My torch, indeed
- Chaconne: Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman
Music reviews of Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington
Music Review: Fine Vocal and Instramental Baroque
Rating: 4 Stars
I have recently discovered Purcell's music. While singing in choir as a young college student, I sang, "Sound the Trumpet" which I loved and am anxiously awaiting a recording of that piece I ordered off Amazon. During my search, I came upon this recording written on a completely different theme and took interest, since it was loosely based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights Dream."
The other reviewers have described the format of this semi-opera well and I agree that the music and singers perform fabulously. The only other thing I have to add is that I find music can sometimes be used as a vehicle to relax the mind and even problem solve and I find these works to be that kind of music that isn't too demanding of the listener. You can think, get homework or housework done, or best of all, sit and listen. I call it "multi-purpose" and this music fits that category for me.
Description of Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington
Purcell worked immensely hard on his score for The Fairy Queen, but the original was lost. The version on which this performance is based arrived at London's Royal Academy of Music by devious routes a century and a half later. But in Roger Norrington's hands, it emerges in its pristine beauty: you could not wish for a better introduction to Purcell's greatest stage work. Only a "semi-opera," maybe, but one studded with exquisite songs and majestic choruses. The anonymous libretto is loosely based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, but its inexhaustible melodic invention is imbued with Shakespearean magic. Some songs have become concert favorites, notably "O let me weep," but the joy of this double CD is that you discover dozens more, and of comparable quality. Purcell's music breathes in perfect tandem with the words and Norrington creates out of this a riveting symbiosis. The singing is pure Baroque-instrumental clarity of tone, unsullied by any vibrato, and the playing is immaculate. Comedy and pathos are both here in spades; vast space is evoked through the pairing of flutes and the echoing of trumpets. And so are all the colors of nature: Purcell's music foreshadows Vivaldi. --Michael ChurchPurcell, Henry CDs
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