1 CD - 444 339-2 - (p) 1995

ENGLAND






Henry PURCELL (1659-1695)






The Indian Queen, Z 630
73' 27"
Semi-opera based on a tragedy by John Dryden & Robert Howard - Masque music for the Additional Act by Daniel Purcell (c.1661-1717)







First Music
2' 17" 1
Second Music
2' 06" 2
Overture
3' 11" 3
Trumpet Tune

0' 40" 4
Prologue
8' 46"
- "Wake Quivera" - (Indian Boy) 2' 14"
5
- "Why should men quarrel?" - (Indian Girl [Quivera]) 1' 32"
6
- "By ancient prophecies" - (Indian Boy, Indian Girl) 4' 17"
7
- Trumpet Tune 0' 43"
8
Act Two
11' 36"
- Symphony 3' 59"
9
- "I come to sing great Zempoalla's story" - (Fame and chorus) 1' 20"
10
- "What flatt'ring noise is this" - (Envy and Two Followers) 0' 38"
11
- "Scorn'd Envy, here's nothing" - (Fame, Envy and Two Followers) 2' 38"
12
- Trumpet Tune 0' 36"
13
- "We come to sing great Zempoalla's story" - (Chorus) 0' 39"
14
- Dance 1' 05"
15
- Second Act Tune (Trumpet Tune reprise) 0' 41"
16
Act Three
20' 02"
- Dance 0' 55"
17
- "Ye twice ten hundred deities ... By the croaking of the toad" - (Ismeron) 4' 48"
18
- Symphony | "Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd" - (God of Dreams) 3' 43"
19
- Trumpet Overture 2' 33"
20
- "Ah! Ah! How happy are we!" - (Two Aerial Spirits) 2' 02"
21
- "We the spirits of the air" - (Four Aerial Spirits) 1' 36"
22
- "I attempt from Love's sickness to fly in vain" - (Zempoalla, Four Aerial Spirits) 3' 12"
23
- Third Act Tune 1' 13"
24
Act Four

6' 52"
- "They tell us that you mighty powers above" - (Orazia) 5' 31"
25
- Fourth Act Tune 1' 21"
26
Act Five
5' 50"
- "While thus we bow before your shrine" - (Chorus) 1' 58"
27
- "You who at the altar stand ... All dismal sounds" - (High Priest, chorus) 3' 52"
28
Additional Act (Daniel Purcell)
11' 52"
- Symphony 0' 54"
29
- "To bless the genial bed with chaste delights ... Come all, come at my call" - (Hymen, A Follower of Hymen) 2' 28"
30
- "I'm glad I have met him" - (Two Married People) 2' 28"
31
- "The joys of wedlock soon are past ... Sound, sound the trumpet" - (Cupid, A Follower of Cupid) 3' 46"
32
- "Make haste, make haste to put on love's chains" - (Two Followers of Cupid) 0' 46"
33
- Trumpet Air | "Let loud renown with all her thousand tongues" - (Chorus) 1' 30"
34




 
John Mark Ainsley, Indian Boy, Fame
The Academy of Ancient Music
Emma Kirkby, Indian Girl (Quivera), Zempoalla, Cupid
Christopher HOGWOOD, direction
David Thomas, Envy, High Priest, A Married Man


Gerald Finley, Ismeron, Hymen


Tommy Williams, God of Dreams

Catherine Bott, Orazia, A Married Woman


Libby Crabtree, A Follower of Hymen

Julian Podger, Simon Berridge, 2 Followers of Envy

John Mark Ainsley, Gerald Finley, David Thomas, 3 Followers of Cupid

Julia Podger, John Mark Ainsley, Libby Crabtree, Helen Parker, 4 Aerial Spirits

 






Luogo e data di registrazione
Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London (Inghilterra) - July 1994

Registrazione: live / studio
studio

Producer
Chris Sayers

Balance Engineer

John Dunkerley

Recording Engineer

Andy Groves


Recording Editor
Timothy Bull

Publisher
novello & Co. LtD (edited by Margaret Laurie & Andrew Pinnock for the Purcell Society)


Prima Edizione LP
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Prima Edizione CD
L'Oiseau Lyre - 444 339-2 - (1 CD) - durata 73' 27" - (p) 1995 - DDD

Wallet Front (LP)

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Wallet Front (CD)
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