Purcell: Theatre Music

Purcell: Theatre Music

Purcell: Theatre Music
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Composer: Henry Purcell
Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
Performer: James Bowman
Performer: Academy of Ancient Music
Performer: Joy Roberts
Performer: Judith Nelson
Performer: Elizabeth Lane
Performer: Prudence Lloyd
Performer: Emma Kirkby
Performer: Rogers Covey-Crump
Performer: Peter Bamber
Performer: Alan Byers
Performer: Paul Elliott
Performer: Martyn Hill
Performer: Julian Pike
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition
CD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Abdelazer - Overture
  2. Abdelazer - Rondeau - Air - Air - Minuet
  3. Abdelazer - Air - Jig - Hornpipe - Air
  4. Abdelazer - Song: Lucinda is bewitching fair
  5. Distressed Innocence - Overture
  6. Distressed Innocence - Air - Slow Air - Air - Hornpipe or Jig
  7. Distressed Innocence - Rondeau - Air - Minuet
  8. The Married Beau - Overture
  9. The Married Beau - Slow Air - Hornpipe
  10. The Married Beau - Air - Hornpipe - Jig
  11. The Married Beau - Trumpet Air - March - Hornpipe on a Ground
  12. The Married Beau - Song: See where repenting Celia lies
  13. The Gordian Knot Untied - Overture
  14. The Gordian Knot Untied - Air - Rondeau Minuet - Air - Jig
  15. The Gordian Knot Untied - Chaconne - Air - Minuet
  16. Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588 - Overture
  17. Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588 - Pursuing Beauty
  18. Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588 - No more, Sir, no more
  19. Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588 - In vain Clemene
  20. Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady (1690), Z588 - Ground
Music CD 2
  1. Bonduca - Overture
  2. Bonduca - Air - Hornpipe - Air
  3. Bonduca - Hornpipe - Air - Minuet
  4. Bonduca - Jack thou'rt a toper
  5. Bonduca - Hear us, great Rugwith
  6. Bonduca - Hear, ye Gods of Britain
  7. Bonduca - Sing, sing, ye Druids
  8. Bonduca - Divine Andante, president of war
  9. Bonduca - To arms
  10. Bonduca - Britons strike home
  11. Bonduca - O lead me to some peaceful gloom
  12. Circe - We must assemble by a sacrifice
  13. Circe - Their necessary aid you use
  14. Circe - Come every demon
  15. Circe - Lovers who to their first embraces go
  16. Circe - Magicians' Dance . . . Pluto, arise!
  17. The Virtuous Wife - Overture
  18. The Virtuous Wife - Song tune - Slow Air - Air
  19. The Virtuous Wife - Preludio - Hornpipe - Minuet - Minuet (1st Act Tune)
  20. The Old Bachelor - Overture
  21. The Old Bachelor - Hornpipe
  22. The Old Bachelor - Thus to a ripe consenting maid
  23. The Old Bachelor - Slow Air - Hornpipe
  24. The Old Bachelor - As Amoret and Thyrsis
  25. The Old Bachelor - Rondeau - Menuet - Boree - March - Jig
Music CD 3
  1. Overture in G minor, Z.770
  2. Don Quixote - Sing all ye muses
  3. Don Quixote - When the world first knew creation
  4. Don Quixote - Let the dreadful engines
  5. Don Quixote - With this sacred charming wand
  6. Don Quixote - Since times are so bad
  7. Don Quixote - Genius of England
  8. Don Quixote - Lads and Lasses
  9. Don Quixote - From rosy bowers
  10. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - Overture
  11. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - Saraband
  12. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - Celia, that I once was blest
  13. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - Hornpipe - Scotch Tune
  14. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - For Iris I sigh
  15. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - Air - Minuet - Hornpipe
  16. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - Fair Iris and her Swain
  17. Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias - Bourrée
Music CD 4
  1. The Double Dealer - Overture
  2. The Double Dealer - Hornpipe-Minuet-Air-Hornpipe
  3. The Double Dealer - Cynthia frowns
  4. The Double Dealer - Minuet-Minuet-Air-Air
  5. The Richmond Heiress or A Woman Once in the Right - Song: Behold the Man
  6. The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609) - Overture
  7. The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609) - Celia has a thousand charms
  8. The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609) - Take not a woman's anger ill
  9. The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love (z609) - How happy, how happy is she
  10. Henry the Second, King of England (Z.580) - In vain, 'gainst love, in vain I strove
  11. Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr - Hark! my Damilcar!
  12. Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr - Ah! how sweet it is to love
  13. Overture in G Minor, Z.772
  14. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Prepare, the rites begin
  15. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Can'st thou, Marina
  16. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - The gate to bliss
  17. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Hark! Hark! behold the heavn'ly choir
  18. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Now the fight's done
  19. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Sad as death at dead of night
  20. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Dream no more of pleasures past
  21. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Hail to the myrtle shade
  22. Theodosius, or The Force of Love - Ah! Cruel, bloody fate
Music CD 5
  1. The Libertine, or the Force of Love - Nymphs and Shepherds
  2. The Libertine, or the Force of Love - We come
  3. The Libertine, or the Force of Love - Prelude
  4. The Libertine, or the Force of Love - Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near
  5. The Libertine, or the Force of Love - To arms, heroic prince
  6. The Massacre of Paris - Thy genius, lo! (2 settings)
  7. Oedipus - Hear, ye sullen powers below
  8. Oedipus - Music for a While
  9. Oedipus - Come away, do not stay...Laius, hear
  10. Overture in D Minor
  11. The History of King Richard the Second (The Sicilian Usurper) - original version, 1681 - Retir'd from any mortal's sight
  12. Sir Barnaby Whigg or No Wit Like a Woman's - original version, 1681 - Blow, Blow, Boreas blow
  13. Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow - original version, 1685 - Beneath the poplar's shadow
  14. The English Lawyer - original version, 1685 - My wife has a tongue
  15. "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688 - I sigh'd, and I pin'd...There's nothing so fatal...
  16. "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688 - Fled is my love...'Tis death alone...
  17. "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688 - I'll sail upon the Dog-Star
  18. "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688 - Jenny, 'gin you can love
  19. "I'll sail upon the dog-star" - original version, 1688 - If thou wilt give me back my love
  20. The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico - I look'd and saw within
  21. The Knight of Malta - original version, 1699 - At the close of the ev'ning
  22. A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne - Why, my Daphne, why complaining
  23. The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - original version, 1691 - Ingrateful love!
  24. The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - original version, 1691 - Hang this whining way of wooing
  25. The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - original version, 1691 - Say; Cruel Amoret...Corinna, I excuse thy face
  26. Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero - original version - No, no, poor suff'ring heart
  27. Regulus or The Faction of Carthage - original version, 1692 - Ah me! to many deaths
  28. The Marriage-Hater Match'd - original version, 1692 - As soon as the chaos...How vile are the sordid untregue
Music CD 6
  1. Love Triumphant or Nature Will Prevail - How happy's the husband
  2. Rule a Wife and Have a Wife - original version - There's not a swain
  3. The Female Virtuosos - Thomas Wright, after Molière's 'Les Femmes savantes' - Love, thou art best
  4. Epsom Wells - original version - Leave these useless arts
  5. The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - original version - Though you make no return
  6. The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - original version - No, resistance is but vain
  7. The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - original version - Tell me no more
  8. Aureng-Zebe or The Great Mogul - I see, she flies me
  9. The Canterbury Guests or A Bargain Broken - original version - Good neighbour why?
  10. The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery - original version - The Danger is over
  11. The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery - original version - I sigh'd and owned my love
  12. The Spanish Friar or The Double Discovery - original version - Whilst I with grief
  13. Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country. (1695), Z585 - original version - Sweeter than Roses
  14. Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country. (1695), Z585 - original version - My dearest, my fairest
  15. The Mock Marriage - original version - Oh! how you protest...'Twas within a furlong
  16. Oroonoko - Celemene, pray tell me
  17. Pavan No.1 in A major, Z.748
  18. Pavan No.2 in A minor, Z.749
  19. Pavan No.3 in B flat a 3, Z.750
  20. Pavan No.4 in G minor, Z.751
  21. Pavan No.5 in G minor a 4, Z.752
  22. Trio Sonata, for violin, bass viol and organ, Z.780
  23. Chacony in G minor Z 730

Music reviews of Purcell: Theatre Music

Music Review: Fine reissue of a classic set
Rating: 5 Stars

Imagine the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures, fluffy, unfunny comedies, big but stiff epics. Now imagine that one of the greatest living composers was working in Hollywood, turning out astonishing, hauntingly beautiful and stirring musical scores for these throwaway movies. That's what you get with this set: music Henry Purcell composed for some two dozen often utterly forgettable plays (trust me--I've read a number of them!) Occasionally, when he teams up with a playwright worthy of his stature, such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, or William Congreve, the results are even better, but for the most part you can enjoy the music here without knowing anything about the original plays.

This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.

Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.

My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.

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