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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. First Music: Prelude - David Wilson-Johnson | |||
| 2. First Music: Hornpipe - David Wilson-Johnson | |||
| 3. Second Music: Air - David Wilson-Johnson | |||
| 4. Second Music: Rondeau - David Wilson-Johnson | |||
| 5. Overture - David Wilson-Johnson | |||
| 6. Act One: Song In Two Parts: Come, Let Us Leave The Town - Richard Wistreich | |||
| 7. Act One: Scene Of The Drunken Poet - David Wilson-Johnson | |||
| 8. Act One: First Act Tune: Jig - Roger Norrington | |||
| 9. Act Two: Song: Come All Ye Songsters - Howard Crook | |||
| 10. Act Two: Prelude - Roger Norrington | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Act Four: Symphony - Roger Norrington | |||
| 2. Act Four: Solo And Chorus: Now The Night - Catherine Pierard | |||
| 3. Act Four: Duet: Let The Fifes, And The Clarions - Howard Crook | |||
| 4. Act Four: Entry Of Phoebus - Roger Norrington | |||
| 5. Act Four: Song: When A Cruel Long Winter - Mark Padmore | |||
| 6. Act Four: Chorus: Hail! Great Parent - Schutz Choir Of London | |||
| 7. Act Four: Song: Thus The Ever Grateful Spring - Lorraine Hunt | |||
| 8. Act Four: Song: Here's The Summer - Howard Crook | |||
| 9. Act Four: Song: See, See My Many Colour'd Fields - Mark Padmore | |||
| 10. Act Four: Song: Now Winter Comes Slowly - David Wilson-Johnson | |||
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(The) Fairy Queen
Composed by Henry Purcell
Performed by London Schütz Choir, London Classical Players
with Catherine Pierard, Howard Crook, Lorraine Hunt, Mark Padmore, Richard Wistreich, Susan Bickley, David Wilson-Johnson
Conducted by Sir Roger Norrington
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
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 favourites, most 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 colours of nature: Purcell's music foreshadows Vivaldi. --Michael Church
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 favourites, most 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 colours of nature: Purcell's music foreshadows Vivaldi. --Michael Church