Purcell: The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess

Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess

Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Fontalis (Auvidis) ES 8583 [CD]
Astrée (Naïve) « Musica Britannica » ES 9934 [CD]
Alia-Vox AVSA 9866 [SACD-H]

Contents:

Henry Purcell

The Prophetess (1690)

1. First Musick
2. Second Musick
3. Symphony for Trumpets & violins
4. Retornella
5. Dance of the Furies: Soft music - Dance
6. The Chair Dance
7. Retornella

The Fairy Queen
The First Act Suite

8. First music: Prelude (1)
9. First music: Hornpipe (2)
10. Second music: Air (3)
11. Second music: Rodeau (4)
12. Overture (5)
13. First Act Tune: Jig (8)

The Second Act Suite

14. A Prelude (9)
15. "A bird's Prelude" (10)
16. Echo (12)
17. A Fairies Dances (13)
18. A Dance for the Followers of Night (18)
19. Second Act Tune: Air (19)

The Third Act Suite

20. Prelude: "Love's a Sweet Passion (20)
21. Overture: symphony while the swans come forward (21)
22. Dance for the Fairies (22)
23. Dance for the Green men (23)
24. Dance for the Haymakers (27)
25. Third Act Tune: hornpipe (29)

The Fourth Act Suite

26. Symphony (30):
    1. Prelude
    2. Canzona
    3. Largo
    4. Allegro
    5. Adagio
    6. Allegro
27. Entry of Phoebus (33)
28. Fourth Act Tune: Air (40)

The Fifth Act Suite

29. Prelude (41)
30. Entry Dance (44)
31. Symphony (45)
32. Monkey's Dance (49)
33. Chaconne, Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman (57)
34. "Fifth Act Tune"

Playing time: 62' 53"

Performers:
Le Concert des Nations
Manfredo Kraemer (first violin concertino), Santi Aubert (violin I), Lydia Cevidali (violin I), Isabel Serrano (violin I), Fabrizio Zanella (violin I), Pablo Valetti (violin II), David Amodio (violin II), Mauro Lopes (violin II), Silvia Mondino (violin II), Angelo Bartoletti (alto), Martin Barrera (alto), Laura Johnson (alto), Balazs Maté (bass violin), Frank Bernede (bass violin), Laura Folch (bass violin), Tomas Varga (bass violin), Sergi Casademunt (violone), Richard Myron (contrabass), Marc Hantaï (flute), Charles Zebley (flute), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe), Paolo Grazzi (oboe), Guy Ferber (trumpet), Roland Callmar (trumpet), Josep Boràs (bassoon), Lee Santana (teorbo), Michael Beringer (harpsichord), Pedro estevan (percussion)
Jordi Savall, dir.

Recording site and date:
Colegiata del Castillo de Cardona (Catalu&ntide;a), Spain [09/1996];
Rel.: 06/10/1997 (Fontalis), 2001 (Astrée), 2009 (Alia-Vox)

Excerpts:
[20], 26] Naïve (Auvidis) "Special" AS 1 29002 [CD] Shakespeare et la Musique Anglaise - Shakespeare and English Music
[26] Fontalis (Auvidis) « Portrait» ES 9903 [CD] Du baroque au pré-romantisme: portrait / Guillaume Dumanoir, Marin Marais, Henry Purcell... [et al.]

Reviewed in: Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 33/3-249 (January / February 2010)

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