Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / James, Lewis, Baker, Herincx
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Music CD Cover Composer: Henry Purcell Conductor: Anthony Lewis Performer: Thurston Dart Performer: Janet Baker Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Monica Sinclair Performer: Patricia Clark Performer: Raimund Herincx Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2000-04-11 Music Label: Decca Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / James, Lewis, Baker, Herincx Album
Free Music Review: INFANDUM, REGINA, IUBES RENOVARE DOLOREM (Aeneid 2/3)
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't recommend this strongly enough to music-lovers who, like me, are not very well up in 17th century composers. First, this opera has a good strong, clear libretto. The story moves fast, the characters and situations are strongly delineated and contrasted, the sense of developing tragedy is powerful and moving. Purcell's Dido has has the stature of Virgil's
--- regina graui iamdudum saucia cura ---
--- the queen long since wounded with a heavy care
a queen and a strong woman driven to suicide by a betrayed love, the part grandly realised by Baker. Herincx has the right idea of Aeneas too, big and 'heroic' despite needing only token prompting from the powers above to abandon Dido and anything she might have meant to him. Virgil's malevolent Juno is replaced by a stagy cast of witches and whatnot, and rightly so for greater theatricality. (I'm OK by staginess and exaggeration here.)
For those like myself whose idea of opera starts with Handel and gets going properly with Gluck, this piece is not easy listening to begin with.It has been an education to learn how the musical resources of the 17th century can be equal to a story as powerful as this. I do not comment on details of the performance as it is still unfamiliar ground to me, but I do not expect ever to find it anything except magnificent.