The echoing air : the music of Henry Purcell / Sylvia McNair ; the Academy of Ancient Music ; Christopher Hogwood.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer.

Contributor:

McNair, Sylvia (Soprano), singer.

Roberts, Timothy, editor.

Steele-Perkins, Crispian, 1944- instrumentalist.

Standage, Simon, instrumentalist.

Hogwood, Christopher, conductor, instrumentalist, arranger of music.

O'Dette, Paul, 1954- instrumentalist.

Dreyfus, Laurence, 1952- instrumentalist.

Academy of Ancient Music (1973- ), instrumentalist.

Series:

Digital classics

Standardized Title:

Vocal music. Selections

Language:

English

French

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

Songs (High voice) with string orchestra.

Genre:

Songs.

Overtures.

Incidental music.

Chaconnes.

Art music.

Chaconnes (Music)

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Music of Henry Purcell

Place of Publication:

Baarn, The Netherlands : Philips, [1995]

Language Note:

Sung in English.

System Details:

digital

optical

audio file

CD audio

Contents:

Staircase overture (2:36)

If music be the food of love, Z397C (3:14)

Cebell (1:09)

The Libertine destroyed (1695) : To arms, to arms, heroic prince, Z600/3b (2:52)

To arms (1:20)

Tell me, some pitying angel, Z196 (7:02)

Slow air (1:46)

We come to sing (0:37)

Bonduca (1695) : Oh! Lead me to some peaceful gloom, Z574/17a (2:46)

O solitude, Z406 (4:13)

The Fairy Queen (1692) : Hark! hark! the echoing air, Z629/48bc (2:24)

Trumpet tune (0:39)

Pausanias (1695) : Sweeter than roses, Z585/1 (3:02)

King Arthur (1691) : Fairest isle, Z628/38 (1:56)

She that would gain a faithful lover, Z414 (2:57)

Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 (2:15)

Indian Queen (1695) : I attempt from love's sickness to fly, Z630/17h (1:35)

Jig (1:04)

Oedipus (1692) : Music for a while, Z583/2 (3:11)

The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 (3:39)

Hear, mighty love (1:32)

The Fairy Queen (1692) : Plainte : O let me weep, Z629/40ab (5:49)

Chacony in G minor, Z730 (4:28).

Participant:

Sylvia McNair, soprano ; Crispian Steele Perkins, trumpet ; Simon Standage, violin ; Christopher Hogwood, organ, conductor ; Paul O'Dette, archlute ; Laurence Dreyfus, cello ; The Academy of Ancient Music.

Notes:

Title from disc label.

"The vocal tracks (excluding tracks 4, 11 and 22) are based on the edition by Timothy Roberts, published by the Oxford University Press; the instrumental tracks are arranged by Christophe Hogwood, no. 1 excluded"--Container.

Recorded 1994 August St. John's, Smith Square, London.

Program and biographical notes by Richard Luckett in English with German, French, and Italian translations, and lyrics with German, French, and Italian translations (35 pages : portraits) inserted in container.

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Contains:

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Staircase overture.

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. If music be the food of love, Z. 379C

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Cibell, harpsichord, Z. T678, C major; arranged

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Bonduca. To arms, your ensigns straight display

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Libertine. To arms, to arms, heroic prince

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Tell me, some pitying angel.

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Distressed innocence. Selections

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Bonduca. O lead me to some peaceful gloom

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. O solitude, my sweetest choice.

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Hark! the ech'ing air

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Pausanias, the betrayer of his country. Sweeter than roses

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. King Arthur. Fairest isle

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. She that would gain a faithful lover.

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Cupid, the slyest rogue alive.

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Indian queen. I attempt from Love's sickness to fly

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Selections

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Oedipus. Music for a while

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fatal hour comes on apace.

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Instrumental music. Selections

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Plaint

Container of: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Chaconnes, string instruments (4), Z. 730, G minor

OCLC:

32375251

Publisher Number:

028944608120

2894460812

446 081-2 Philips