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
- First Music: Prelude - David Wilson-Johnson
- First Music: Hornpipe - David Wilson-Johnson
- Second Music: Air - David Wilson-Johnson
- Second Music: Rondeau - David Wilson-Johnson
- Overture - David Wilson-Johnson
- Act One: Song In Two Parts: Come, Let Us Leave The Town - Richard Wistreich
- Act One: Scene Of The Drunken Poet - David Wilson-Johnson
- Act One: First Act Tune: Jig - Roger Norrington
- Act Two: Song: Come All Ye Songsters - Howard Crook
- Act Two: Prelude - Roger Norrington
- Act Two: Trio: May The God Of Wit Inspire - David Wilson-Johnson
- Act Two: Echo - Howard Crook
- Act Two: Chorus: Now Joyn Your Warbling Voices - Schutz Choir Of London
- Act Two: Song And Chorus: Sing While We Trip It - Schutz Choir Of London
- Act Two: Song: See, Even Night Herself Is Here - Susan Bickley
- Act Two: Song: I Am Come To Lock All Fast - Lorraine Hunt
- Act Two: Song: One Charming Night - Mark Padmore
- Act Two: Song And Chorus: Hush, No More - Schutz Choir Of London
- Act Two: Dance For The Followers Of Night - Roger Norrington
- Act Two: Second Act Tune: Air - Roger Norrington
- Act Three: Song In Two Parts And Chorus: If Love's A Sweet Passion - Schutz Choir Of London
- Act Three: Overture: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward - Roger Norrington
- Act Three: Dance For The Fairies - Roger Norrington
- Act Three: Dance For The Green Men - Roger Norrington
- Act Three: Song: Ye Gentle Spirits Of The Air - Lorraine Hunt
- Act Three: Dialogue Between Coridon And Mopsa - Mark Padmore
- Act Three: Dance For The Haymakers - Roger Norrington
- Act Three: Song: When I Have Often Heard - Catherine Pierard
- Act Three: Song And Chorus: A Thousand, Thousand Ways - Howard Crook
- Act Three: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe - Roger Norrington
- Act Four: Symphony - Roger Norrington
- Act Four: Solo And Chorus: Now The Night - Catherine Pierard
- Act Four: Duet: Let The Fifes, And The Clarions - Howard Crook
- Act Four: Entry Of Phoebus - Roger Norrington
- Act Four: Song: When A Cruel Long Winter - Mark Padmore
- Act Four: Chorus: Hail! Great Parent - Schutz Choir Of London
- Act Four: Song: Thus The Ever Grateful Spring - Lorraine Hunt
- Act Four: Song: Here's The Summer - Howard Crook
- Act Four: Song: See, See My Many Colour'd Fields - Mark Padmore
- Act Four: Song: Now Winter Comes Slowly - David Wilson-Johnson
- Act Four: Chorus: Hail! Great Parent - Schutz Choir Of London
- Act Four: Fourth Tune Act: Air - Roger Norrington
- Act Five: Prelude - Roger Norrington
- Act Five: Epithalamium: Thrice Happy Lovers - Susan Bickley
- Act Five: Song: The Plaint - O Let Me Weep - Lorraine Hunt
- Act Five: Entry Dance - Roger Norrington
- Act Five: Symphony Dance - Roger Norrington
- Act Five: Song: Thus The Gloomy world - Mark Padmore
- Act Five: Solo And Chorus: Thus Happy And Free - Catherine Pierard
- Act Five: Song: Yes, Daphne - Howard Crook
- Act Five: Monkey's Dance - Roger Norrington
- Act Five: Song: Hark, How All Things - Susan Bickley
- Act Five: Song And Chorus: Hark, How The Echoing Air - Lorraine Hunt
- Act Five: Solos And Chorus: Sure The Dull God - Susan Bickley
- Act Five: Prelude - Roger Norrington
- Act Five: Solo: See, See, I Obey - David Wilson-Johnson
- Act Five: Duet: Turn Then Thine Eyes - Susan Bickley
- Act Five: Solo: My Torch, Indeed - David Wilson-Johnson
- Act Five: Trio And Chorus: They Shall Be As Happy - David Wilson-Johnson
- Act Five: Chaconne: Dance For Chinese Man And Woman - Roger Norrington
Free Music Notes for Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington
Free Music Review: Fine Vocal and Instramental Baroque
Hit: 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.
Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Hunt, Pierard, Bickley, Crook, Padmore, Wilson-Johnson, Wistreich, Sch?tz Choir, LCP, Norrington Poster
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 ChurchClassical Music CDs
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