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Dido and Aeneas ; and, music for plays & masques / Purcell.
LIBRA Telarc 80424 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Dido (Legendary character)--Drama.
- Dido.
- Dido (Legendary character).
- Aeneas (Legendary character)--Drama.
- Aeneas.
- Aeneas (Legendary character).
- Incidental music.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, Ohio : Telarc, [1996]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- 12 track
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Music for plays & masques. Abdelazer, or The moor's revenge. Overture (3:00) ; Rondeau (1:22) ; Air (1:19)
- The Gordian knot unty'd. Minuet (1:30) ; Air (1:12)
- Timon of Athens. Curtain tune on a ground (1:57)
- The fairy queen. Rondeau (1:28) ; Hornpipe (:56) ; Overture (1:26) ; Dance for the fairies (1:04) ; Chaconne (2:34)
- The married beau. Hornpipe on a ground (1:24)
- Participant:
- In the 1st work: Susannah Waters, Sharon Baker, Margaret O'Keefe, sopranos ; Nancy Maultsby, Laura Tucker, Donna Ames, mezzo-sopranos ; Richard Clement, tenor ; Russell Braun, baritone. In all works: Boston Baroque ; Martin Pearlman, conductor.
- Notes:
- The 1st work an opera in 3 acts.
- Libretto of the 1st work by Nahum Tate; based on the Aeneid by Virgil.
- Compact disc.
- Program notes in English, German, and French and libretto of the 1st work with French and German translations (51 p.) inserted in container.
- Recorded in Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Mass., Jan. 3-5, 1996.
- Contains:
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Abdelazer. Selections
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Gordian knot unty'd. Minuet
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Gordian knot unty'd. Air, no. 2.
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Timon of Athens. Curtain tune
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Selections
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Married beau. Hornpipe.
- OCLC:
- 36217757
- Publisher Number:
- 8940804242
- CD-80424 Telarc
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