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Special offer. Purcell: Music for the Stage

Ashley Stafford (countertenor, contralto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone, bass), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Gill Ross (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), John Williams (countertenor), Thomas Allen (bass), Dame Felicity Lott...

Purcell: Music for the Stage

Special offer. Purcell: Music for the Stage

Ashley Stafford (countertenor, contralto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone, bass), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Gill Ross (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), John Williams (countertenor), Thomas Allen (bass), Dame Felicity Lott...

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As John Eliot Gardiner converted his Monteverdi Orchestra to early instruments in the mid-1970s and renamed it the English Baroque Soloists, he engaged his magnificent instrumentalists, choir and a host of first-class soloists in the most emblematic works by “the Greatest Genius we [England] ever had”: Henry Purcell! he reception was unanimously enthusiastic and led Diapason to say: "Gardiner's reading of Purcell, dramatic, hyper-refined, sometimes burning, overwhelming, at all times enchanting, cannot escape the discography of the enlightened music lover. Purcell himself is there!”.

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Ashley Stafford (countertenor, contralto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone, bass), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Gill Ross (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), John Williams (countertenor), Thomas Allen (bass), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), John Tomlinson (bass), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Roderick Earle (bass), Wynford Evans (tenor), Christopher Robson (countertenor), Owen Grundy (bass), Brian Gordon (contralto), David Thomas (bass), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Michael George (bass), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Rosemary Hardy (soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Dinah Harris (soprano), Carol Hall (mezzo-soprano), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Equale Brass Ensemble, Monteverdi Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

  • Release date: 25th Mar 2022
  • Label: Erato
  • Catalogue number: 9029641623
  • Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Purcell: King Arthur, Z628
Work length4:35
Overture
Track length1:47
Air
Track length1:30
Overture (Reprise)
Track length1:18
Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1
Work length12:18
Trio and Chorus. "Woden, First to Thee" - "To Woden, Our Defender, Thanks We Render" (Saxon Priest, Priestess, Chorus)
Track length3:40
Song. "The Lot Is Cast, and Tanfan Pleas'd" (Priestess)
Track length0:32
Chorus. "Brave Souls, to Be Renown'd in Story" (Chorus)
Track length2:20
Song and Chorus. "I Call You All to Woden's Hall" (Priestess, Chorus)
Track length2:02
Song and Chorus. "Come If You Dare" - First Act Tune (British Warrior, Chorus)
Track length3:44
Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2
Work length17:54
Song and Chorus. "Hither, This Way, This Way Bend" (Philidel, Chorus)
Track length2:12
Song. "Let Not a Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye" (Grimbald)
Track length1:15
"Hither This Way, This Way Bend" (Chorus)
Track length0:37
Song and Chorus. "Come, Follow Me" (Philidel, Chorus)
Track length2:26
Song and Chorus. "How Blest Are Shepherds" (Tenor, Chorus)
Track length6:37
Duet. "Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying" (Shepherdesses)
Track length2:11
Chorus. "Come, Shepherds, Lead up a Lively Measure" - Hornpipe (Chorus)
Track length1:37
Second Act Tune. Air
Track length0:59
Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3
Work length16:58
Song. "What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle" (Cupid)
Track length1:22
Prelude While Cold Genius Rises - Frost Scene. "What Power Art Thou" (Cold Genius)
Track length2:51
Song. "What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle" - Song. "Thou Doting Fool" (Cupid)
Track length1:03
Song. "Great Love, I Know Thee Now" (Cold Genius)
Track length0:54
Song. "No Part of My Dominion" (Cupid)
Track length0:55
Prelude - Chorus. "See, See, We Assemble" - Dance (Chorus)
Track length3:26
Ritornello. "Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye" - Chorus. "Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us" (Cupid, Chorus)
Track length2:01
Duet. "Sound a Parley" - Ritornello - Chorus. "Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us" (Cupid, Cold Genius, Chorus)
Track length3:45
Third Act Tune. Hornpipe
Track length0:41
Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4
Work length9:49
Duet. "Two Daughters of This Aged Stream Are We" (Syrens)
Track length2:42
Song and Chorus. "How Happy the Lover" - Duet and Chorus. "For Love Every Creature" & Chorus Trio. "In Vain Are Our Graces" (Tenor, Sylvan, Nymphs, Chorus)
Track length6:11
Fourth Act Tune. Air
Track length0:56
Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5
Work length29:52
Trumpet Tune
Track length0:46
Song. "Ye Blust'ring Brethren of the Skies" (Aeolus)
Track length2:43
Symphony
Track length1:40
Song and Chorus. "Round Thy Coast" (Nereid, Pan, Chorus)
Track length3:18
Trio. "For Folded Flocks, and Fruitful Plains" (Trio)
Track length2:43
Song and Chorus. "Your Hay It Is Mow'd" (Peasant, Chorus)
Track length3:02
Song. "Fairest Isle" (Venus)
Track length4:08
Duet. "You Say 'tis Love" (He, She)
Track length5:28
Trumpet Tune. Warlike Consort
Track length0:36
Song and Chorus. "Saint George" (Honour, Chorus)
Track length2:01
Chaconne
Track length3:27
Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 "Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday"
Work length25:25
No. 1, Symphony
Track length4:10
No. 2, Aria and Chorus. "Come Ye Sons of Art Away"
Track length1:59
No. 3, Duet. "Sound the Trumpet"
Track length2:27
No. 4, Chorus. "Come Ye Sons of Art Away"
Track length1:22
No. 5, Ritornello. "Strike the Viol"
Track length4:45
No. 6, Aria and Chorus. "The Day That Such a Blessing Gave"
Track length2:32
No. 7, Aria. "Bid the Virtues"
Track length3:31
No. 8, Aria. "These Are the Sacred Charms"
Track length1:40
No. 9, Duet and Chorus. "See Nature Rejoicing"
Track length2:59
Purcell: March and Canzona for Queen Mary's Funeral, Z. 860: March
Work length2:17
Purcell: Funeral Sentences: Man That Is Born of a Woman, Z. 27
Work length3:48
Purcell: March and Canzona for Queen Mary's Funeral, Z. 860: Canzona
Work length1:44
March and Canzona for Queen Mary's Funeral, Z. 860: Canzona (Reprise)
Track length1:44
Purcell: Funeral Sentences: In the Midst of Life, Z. 17A
Work length5:55
Purcell: March and Canzona for Queen Mary's Funeral, Z. 860: Canzona (Reprise)
Work length0:52
Purcell: Funeral Sentences: Thou Know'st, Lord, Z. 58C
Work length2:25
Purcell: March and Canzona for Queen Mary's Funeral, Z. 860: March (Reprise)
Work length2:22
Purcell: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z. 135
Work length6:43
Purcell: My beloved spake, Z28
Work length10:15
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Purcell: O God, thou hast cast us out, Z36
Work length4:05
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15
Work length2:22
Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia, Z. 328 "Ode to St Cecilia"
Work length53:13
Symphony
Track length9:37
Chorus. "Hail! Bright Cecilia"
Track length4:42
Duet. "Hark Each Tree"
Track length3:59
Aria. "'Tis Nature's Voice"
Track length4:12
Chorus. "Soul of the World"
Track length2:32
Aria. "Thou Tun'st This World"
Track length5:13
Trio. "With That Sublime Celestial Lay"
Track length3:06
Aria. "Wondrous Machine"
Track length2:16
Aria. "The Airy Violin"
Track length1:22
Duet. "In Vain the Am'rous Flute"
Track length6:17
Aria. "The Fife and All the Harmony of War"
Track length3:01
Duet. "Let These Amongst Themselves Contest"
Track length2:31
Final Chorus. "Hail! Bright Cecilia"
Track length4:25
Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z. 632
Work length20:55
Overture
Track length2:42
Duet. "Hark! How the Songsters of the Grove" (Two Nymphs)
Track length1:41
Song. "Love in Their Little Veins" (Nymph)
Track length1:22
Trio. "But Ah! How Much Are Our Delights" (Two Nymphs, Shepherd)
Track length1:12
Song. "Hence With Your Trifling Deity!" - Trio. "But Over Us no Griefs Prevail" (Bacchanals)
Track length2:32
Song. "Come All, Come All to Me" (Cupid)
Track length1:11
Chorus. "Who Can Resist" (Chorus)
Track length1:34
Song. "Return, Revolting Rebels!" (Bacchus)
Track length1:46
Song. "The Care of Lovers" (A Nymph)
Track length1:38
Song. "Love Quickly Is Pall'd" (A Bacchanal)
Track length1:03
Duet and Chorus. "Come, Let Us Agree" (Cupid, Bacchus, Chorus)
Track length1:57
Curtain Tune on a Ground
Track length2:17
Purcell: Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627
Work length7:53
First Music
Track length2:13
Second Music
Track length1:26
Overture
Track length4:14
Purcell: Dioclesian, Z. 627, Act 1: First Act Tune. Hornpipe
Work length0:42
Purcell: Dioclesian, Z. 627, Act 2
Work length20:19
Song. "Great Diocles" - Chorus. "Sing Lo's"
Track length2:17
Song. "Charon, the Peaceful Shade" - Sinfonia - Duet and Chorus. "Let All Mankind the Pleasure Share"
Track length4:24
Martial Song. "Let the Soldiers Rejoice" - Chorus. "Rejoice, Rejoice"
Track length1:53
Ritornello and Trio. "To Mars Let 'em Raise" - Chorus. "Rejoice, Rejoice" & Ritornello
Track length2:33
A Symphony of Flutes - Song. "Since the Toils" - Quartet. "Let the Priests" & Chorus. "All Sing Great Diocles' Glory"
Track length5:11
Dance of Furies
Track length3:21
Second Act Tune
Track length0:40
Purcell: Dioclesian, Z. 627, Act 3
Work length12:24
Chaconne. Two in One Upon a Ground
Track length2:35
Song. "When First I Saw"
Track length2:29
The Chair Dance
Track length1:19
Song. "What Shall I Do"
Track length5:24
Third Act Tune
Track length0:37
Purcell: Dioclesian, Z. 627, Act 4
Work length8:38
Butterfly Dance
Track length2:12
Trumpet Tune
Track length0:33
Song. "Sound, Fame" - Chorus. "Let All Rehearse"
Track length5:19
Fourth Act Tune
Track length0:34
Purcell: Dioclesian, Z. 627, Act 5
Work length41:25
Country Dance
Track length0:53
Prelude to the Masque - Chorus. "Call the Nymphs"
Track length2:38
Duet. "Come, Come Away"
Track length1:03
Prelude - Chorus. "Behold, O Mightiest of Gods" - Paspe
Track length3:59
Duet. "Ah the Sweet Delights of Love"
Track length1:49
Song. "Let Monarchs Fight"
Track length2:18
Song. "Since from My Dear"
Track length2:44
Song and Chorus. "Make Room" - Dance of Bacchanals
Track length4:09
Song. "Still I'm Wishing"
Track length5:06
Canaries - Dialogue. "Tell Me Why My Charming Fair"
Track length6:11
Dance
Track length1:00
Song and Chorus. "All Our Days" - Song and Chorus. "Let Us Dance"
Track length4:39
Dance - Trio. "Triumph, Victorious Love" & Chorus. "Then All Rehearse"
Track length4:56
Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630
Work length18:02
First Music. Air I
Track length1:19
First Music. Air II
Track length1:08
Second Music. Hornpipe I
Track length0:53
Second Music. Hornpipe II
Track length1:23
Overture. Adagio
Track length1:43
Overture. Allegro
Track length1:53
Trumpet Tune
Track length0:46
Prologue. "Wake, Quivera" (Indian Boy)
Track length2:13
Prologue. "Why Should Men Quarrel" (Indian Girl)
Track length1:28
Prologue. "By Ancient Prophecies" (Indian Boy, Indian Girl)
Track length4:29
Prologue. Trumpet Tune
Track length0:47
Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act 2
Work length10:47
Symphony. Canzona
Track length2:07
Symphony. Adagio
Track length1:51
Symphony. Allegro
Track length0:57
"I Come to Sing Great Zempoalla Story" (Fame, Chorus)
Track length0:56
Air. "What Flattering Noise Is This?" (Envy, Two Followers)
Track length0:42
"Scorn'd Envy, Here's Nothing" (Fame)
Track length1:02
"I Fly from the Place" (Envy)
Track length1:06
"Begone, Curst Fiends of Hell" (Fame)
Track length0:40
"I Come to Sing" (Fame)
Track length1:26
Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act 3
Work length23:40
Air
Track length0:40
Minuet
Track length1:31
"Ye Twice Ten Hundred Deities" (Ismeron)
Track length5:28
Symphony for Hautboys
Track length1:04
"Seek Not to Know" (God of Dreams)
Track length2:53
Trumpet Overture
Track length3:01
"Ah, How Happy Are We" (First Aerial Spirit, Second Aerial Spirit)
Track length2:33
"We the Spirits of the Air" (Third Aerial Spirit, Fourth Aerial Spirit, Chorus)
Track length1:29
"I Attempt From Love's Sickness" (Zempoalla)
Track length1:47
"We the Spirits of the Air" (Third Aerial Spirits, Fourth Aerial Spirits, Chorus)
Track length1:17
Third Act Tune
Track length1:57
Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act 4: "They Tell Us" - Fourth Act Tune - "To Suffer for Him" (Orazia)
Work length3:36
Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act 5: "While Thus We Bow" (Chorus, High Priest)
Work length6:17
Purcell: The Tempest, Z. 631: Overture
Work length4:10
Purcell: The Tempest, Z. 631, Act 2
Work length8:07
Duet and Chorus. "Where Does the Black Fiend" (First Devil, Second Devil, Chorus)
Track length2:07
Chorus. "Around, Around We Pace" (Chorus)
Track length1:37
Song. "Arise, Ye Subterranean Winds" (First Devil)
Track length3:02
Dance of Winds
Track length1:21
Purcell: The Tempest, Z. 631, Act 3
Work length10:51
Song and Chorus. "Comme unto These Yellow Sands" (Ariel, Chorus)
Track length1:24
Song and Chorus. "Full Fathom Five" (Ariel, Chorus)
Track length2:12
Song. "Dry Those Eyes" (Ariel)
Track length6:08
Song. "Kind Fortune Smiles" (Ariel)
Track length1:07
Purcell: The Tempest, Z. 631, Act 4
Work length3:43
Dance of Devils
Track length0:27
The Sailor's Dance
Track length1:08
Song. "Dear Pretty Youth" (Dorinda)
Track length2:08
Purcell: The Tempest, Z. 631, Act 5
Work length30:31
Recitative and Song. "Great Neptune!" (Amphitrite, Neptune)
Track length4:04
Chorus. "The Nereids and Tritons" (Chorus)
Track length1:54
Recitative and Song. "Aeolus, You Must Appear" (Neptune)
Track length3:14
Recitative and Song. "Your Awful Voice I Hear" (Aeolus)
Track length4:21
Song. "Halcyon Days" (Amphitrite)
Track length6:30
Song. "See, See, the Heavens Smile" (Neptune)
Track length4:56
Duet and Chorus. "No Stars Again Shall Hurt You" (Amphitrite, Neptune, Chorus)
Track length5:32
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