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Dido and Aeneas : and music for plays & masques / Purcell.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Aeneas (Legendary character).
- Aeneas.
- Dido (Legendary character).
- Dido.
- Operas.
- Incidental music.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Incidental music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (70 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Music for plays & masques
- Music for plays and masques
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, OH : Telarc, 1996.
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- audio file
- Contents:
- Dido and Aeneas (50:50)
- 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 (0:56) ; 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:
- Streaming audio files.
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 16, 2019).
- The 1st work is an opera in 3 acts.
- Libretto of the 1st work by Nahum Tate; based on the Aeneid by Virgil.
- Recorded Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts 1996 January 3-5.
- Program notes in English, German, and French, and libretto of the 1st work with French and German translations included.
- Contains:
- Opera adaptation of: Virgil. Aeneis.
- Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Dido and Aeneas.
- Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Abdelazer. Selections
- Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Gordian knot unty'd. Minuet
- Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Gordian knot unty'd. Airs, D major
- Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Timon of Athens. Curtain tune
- Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Selections
- Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Married beau. Hornpipe on a ground
- Other Format:
- Original cat. no.: CD-80424
- OCLC:
- 1120081929
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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