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Purcell - The Fairy Queen
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| List Price: | £9.99 |
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Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Overture
- Duet
- Scene Of The Drunken Poet
- First Act Tune: Jig
- Prelude And Song
- Prelude
- Chorus
- Chorus
- Solo, Chorus & Dance Of Fairies
- Night
- Mystery
- Secresie
- Sleep
- Dance For The Followers Of Night
- Prelude, Solo & Chorus
- Symphony While The Swans Come Forward
- Dance For The Fairies
- Dance For The Green Men
- Song
- Dialogue Between Coridon And Mopsa
- Dance For The Haymakers
- A Nymph
- Song
Disc 2:
- Symphony
- An Attendant & Chorus
- Two Attendants
- Entry Of Phoebus
- Phoebus
- Chorus
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
- Chorus
- Prelude
- Juno
- The Plaint
- Symphony
- A Chinese Man
- A Chinese Woman & Chorus
- A Chinese Man
- Monkeys' Dance
- First Woman
- Second Woman
- Two Woman
- Prelude
- Hymen
- Two Woman
- Hymen
- Chaconne: The Grand Dance
- Trio & Chorus
- First Musick Prelude
- First Musick Hornpipe
- Second Musick Air
- Second Musick Rondeau
- Second Act Tune (Air)
- Fourth Act Tune (Air)
- Third Act Tune (Hornpipe)
- Entry Dance
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #28599 in Music
- Released on: 1993-12-31
- Number of discs: 2
- Running time: 128 minutes
Customer Reviews
A highly recommended Naxos bargain.
For a very modest outlay, you will be able to enjoy some great music if you drop this 2 CD set into your trolley. It is great music that is too expensive to mount in live productions, too. Originally intended to augment a production of Shakespeare's "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream", it resulted in a lavish six hour entertainment that cost £3,000 to produce in 1692. Purcell provided five masques, involving soloists, chorus and orchestra, but set none of Shakespeare's text.
Well, here is Purcell's contribution complete, in a lively "period instrument" version by the Scholars Baroque Ensemble. The ensemble's founder, David van Asch, has prepared and edited the version used here. Do not neglect the instrumental items provided in an appendix at the end of the 2nd CD. They originally were interpolated into the play rather than forming part of the accompanying masques, and some of them are gems.
The vocalists, especially David van Asch himself whose "drunken poet" scene is delivered with great relish, blend and lead admirably, although ensemble is sometimes a little ragged.
I think it was Constant Lambert who said he would willingly sacrifice all Bach's Brandenburg Concerti for Purcell's "The Fairy Queen". See what you think.
