Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington

Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington

Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington
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Brand: Hunt
Composer: Henry Purcell
Conductor: 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
  1. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Prelude
  2. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Hornpipe
  3. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Air
  4. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Rondeau
  5. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Overture
  6. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Come, let us leave the town
  7. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Scene of the drunken poet
  8. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: First Act Tune: Jig
  9. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Come all ye songsters
  10. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Prelude
  11. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: May the God of Wit inspire
  12. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Echo
  13. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Now joyn your Warbling Voices
  14. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Sing while we trip it
  15. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: See, even Night herself is here
  16. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: I am come to lock all fast
  17. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: One charming night
  18. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Hush, no more
  19. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Dance for the Followers of Night
  20. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Second Act Tune: Air
  21. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: If Love's a Sweet Passion
  22. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Overture: Symphony while the Swans come forward
  23. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Dance for the Fairies
  24. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Dance for the Green Men
  25. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air
  26. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa
  27. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Dance for the Haymakers
  28. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: When I have often heard
  29. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: A Thousand, Thousand Ways
  30. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
Music CD 2
  1. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Symphony
  2. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Now the Night
  3. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Let the Fifes, and the Clarions
  4. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Entry of Phoebus
  5. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: When a cruel long Winter
  6. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Hail! Great Parent
  7. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Thus the ever Grateful Spring
  8. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Here's the Summer
  9. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: See, see my many Colour'd Fields
  10. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Now Winter comes Slowly
  11. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Hail! Great Parent
  12. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Fourth Act Tune: Air
  13. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Prelude
  14. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Epithalamium: Thrice happy Lovers
  15. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: The Plaint - O Let me weep
  16. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Entry Dance
  17. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Symphony
  18. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Thus the gloomy World
  19. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Yes, Daphne
  20. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Monkeys' Dance
  21. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Hark, how all things
  22. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Hark, now the Echoing Air
  23. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Sure the dull God
  24. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Prelude
  25. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: See, see, I obey
  26. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: Turn then thine Eyes
  27. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: My torch, indeed
  28. The Fairy Queen, semi-opera, Z. 629: 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 Church

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