The Fairy Queen/Dido And Aeneas [Import]

Henry Purcell (Composer), English Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
• Composer: Henry Purcell
• Audio CD (June 18, 2001)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Decca Import
• ASIN: B00005JT1U
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,767 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Sym - ECO/Benjamin Britten

2. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Now The Night Is Chas'd Away - Jennifer Vyvyan/James Bowman/Charles Brett

3. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Let The Fifes And The Clarions/Dance - Jennifer Vyvyan/James Bowman/Charles Brett

4. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: When A Cruel Long Winter - Peter Pears

5. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Hail! Great Parent - Ambrosian Opr Chor

6. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Thus The Ever Grateful Spring - Mary Wells

7. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Here's The Summer, Sprightly, Gay - James Bowman

8. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: See, My Many-Coloured Fields - Ian Partridge

9. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Next, Winter Comes Slowly - John Shirley-Quirk

10. The Fairy Queen: Part I. Oberon's Birthday: Hail! Great Parent - Ambrosian Opr Chor

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Disc: 2

1. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Sym - ECO/Benjamin Britten

2. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Hark! Hark! The Echoing Air - Jennifer Vyvyan/Mary Wells/Alfreda Hodgson

3. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Sure The Dull God Of Marriage - Jennifer Vyvyan/Mary Wells/Alfreda Hodgson

4. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: See, I Obey - Owen Brannigan

5. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Turn Then Thine Eyes - Jennifer Vyvyan/Mary Wells/Alfreda Hodgson

6. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: My Torch Indeed...They Shall Be As Happy - Owen Brannigan/Jennifer Vyvyan/Mary Wells/Alfreda Hodgson

7. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: Chaconne - ECO/Benjamin Britten

8. The Fairy Queen: Part IV. Epithalamium: They Shall Be As Happy - Ambrosian Opr Chor

9. Dido And Aeneas: Ov - Aldeburgh Festival Strs/Steuart Bedford

10. Dido And Aeneas: Act One, Scene One: Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow - Norma Burrowes

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cannot stand listening to this performance, July 12, 2005

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Leonardo A. (Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fairy Queen/Dido And Aeneas (Audio CD)

Time passes fast, and 1970 is a prehistorical age for this kind of music.
I had the bad idea to buy this recording: Britten is directing this music disregarding his own annotations on the scores he adapted !! (I had to study them for a concert).
But worst, soloists are singing in a terrible "italian melodrammatic style" (as we say "with big potatoes in their mouth"). The chorus is too large, the tempo too slow, terribly slow. The brasses are untuned, the orchestra is not convincing at all.
Dido and Aeneas follows the same destiny.

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