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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas

Taverner Choir and Players, Andrew Parrott & Emily Van Evera

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Format: CD

Cat No: AV2309

Release Date:  12 May 2014

Label:  Avie

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  822252230925

Genres:  Classical  Opera  

  • Description

    A sumptuous reissue of Andrew Parrott's and his Taverner Choir & Players seminal recording of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas features pristine solo turns by baritone Ben Parry as Aeneas, the Trojan king, and soprano Emily Van Evera as Dido, the abandoned Queen of Carthage.

    Avie continues to mine the rich catalogue of recordings made by Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players. The performance is as fresh as when the recording was made in 1994, with baritone Ben Parry as the Trojan hero Aeneas, and soprano Emily Van Evera as the abandoned Queen of Carthage, delivering an interpretation of Dido's Lament that is as dignified as it is sublime.

    Personnel: Emily Van Evera (soprano), Ben Parry (baritone), Andrew Parrott (director), Taverner Choir & Players

    Critical acclaim for Andrew Parrott's and the Taverner Consort's Dido & Aeneas:

    "Places the accent on giving meaning and colour to every word of the text...Parrott directs the excellent Taverner Players in a performance that charms as well as moves in abundance." - BBC Music Magazine, * * * * * / * * * * *

    "For all the performances available out there, the listener could not do better than this vividly dramatic reading...as Dido, Emily Van Evera is the standout. Her death scene is a marvel of...expiring passion." - Newark Star Ledger

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Dido and Aeneas, Overture
      • 2. ACT I · Scene: The Palace, Shake the cloud from off your brow
      • 3. Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment
      • 4. Grief increases by concealing
      • 5. When monarchs unite, how happy their state
      • 6. Whence could so much virtue spring?
      • 7. Fear no danger to ensue
      • 8. Dance [Fear no danger to ensue]
      • 9. See, see, your royal guest appears
      • 10. Cupid only throws the dart
      • 11. If not for mine, for empire's sake
      • 12. Pursue thy conquest, Love
      • 13. Dance: 'Gittars Chacony'
      • 14. To the hills and the vales
      • 15. The Triumphing Dance
      • 16. ACT II · Scene: The Cave, Prelude for the Witches ?Wayward sisters, you that fright
      • 17. Harm's our delight
      • 18. The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate
      • 19. Ho ho ho!
      • 20. Ruined ere the set of sun?
      • 21. Ho ho ho!
      • 22. But ere we this perform
      • 23. In our deep vaulted cell
      • 24. Echo Dance of Furies
      • 25. Ritornelle
      • 26. Thanks to these lonesome vales
      • 27. Dance: 'Gitter Ground'; Oft she visits this lone mountain; A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's women
      • 28. Behold, upon my bending spear
      • 29. Haste, haste to town!
      • 30. Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command
      • 31. [Dance: Hornpipe from The Married Beau] ?
      • 32. ACT III · Scene: The Ships, Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors
      • 33. The Sailors' Dance
      • 34. See the flags and streamers curling
      • 35. Our next motion
      • 36. Destruction our delight
      • 37. The Witches' Dance
      • 38. Your counsel all is urg'd in vain
      • 39. Great minds against themselves conspire
      • 40. Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me
      • 41. When I am laid in earth
      • 42. With drooping wings
      • 43. Cupids' Dance
      • 44. Pavan in G minor z752 for three violins and continuo