Label: ABC Classics
Cat. No.: 476 287-9
Medium: CD
No. Discs: 2
Recorded 10-12 December 2003 in Eugene Goossens Hall, Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Ultimo Centre. This special studio recording of The Fairy Queen was made directly after Pinchgut Opera's December 2003 performances at City Recital Hall, Angel Place.
A title in the ABC Classics Antipodes Series. Other titles in this series
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| Artists: |
Miriam Allan (soprano), Jamie Allen (tenor), Stephen Bennett (bass), Colin Bone (baritone), Jenny Duck-Chong (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lobelson (baritone), Sara Macliver (soprano), Paul McMahon (tenor), Belinda Montgomery (soprano), Alison Morgan (soprano), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano), Brett Weymark (tenor), Pinchgut Opera, Cantillation. |
| Composers: |
Purcell. |
| Conductors: |
Antony Walker. |
| Orchestras: |
Orchestra of the Antipodes. |
| Tracks: |
HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695)
The Fairy Queen
CD 1First Music
- Prelude
- Hornpipe
Second Music - Aire
- Rondeaux
Act I - Overture
- Song in Two Parts: Come, come, come, let us leave the Town
Miriam Allan soprano, Corin Bone baritone - Scene of the Drunken Poet: Fill up the Bowl
Sara Macliver soprano, Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano, Simon Lobelson baritone - Music for a while (from Oedipus)
Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano - First Act Tune: Jig
Act II - Prelude and Song: Come all ye Songsters of the Sky
Jamie Allen tenor - Trio: May the God of Wit inspire
Paul McMahon, Brett Weymark tenors, Corin Bone baritone - Echo
- Chorus: Now joyn your Warbling Voices all
Song and Chorus: Sing while we trip it upon the Green
Belinda Montgomery soprano
Dance for Faierys - Song: See, even Night herself is here
Alison Morgan soprano - Song: I am come to lock all fast
Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano - Song: One charming Night
Jamie Allen tenor - Song and Chorus: Hush, no more, be silent, all
Stephen Bennett bass - A Dance for the Followers of Night
- Second Act Tune: Aire
Act III - A Song in Two Parts and Chorus: If Love's a Sweet Passion
Sara Macliver soprano - Symphony while the Swans come forward
- Dance for the Faierys
- Dance for the Green Men
- Song: Ye gentle Spirits of the Air, appear
Sara Macliver soprano - Dialogue between Corydon and Mopsa: Now the Maids and the Men
Jamie Allen tenor, Stephen Bennett bass - A Dance for the Haymakers
- Song: When I have often heard
Miriam Allan soprano - Song and Chorus: A Thousand Thousand ways we'll find
Jamie Allen tenor, Stephen Bennett bass - Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
CD 2Act IV
- Symphony – Canzona
- Largo
- Allegro
- Adagio – Allegro
- Solo and Chorus: Now the Night is chas'd away
Belinda Montgomery soprano - Duet: Let the Fifes, and the Clarions
Paul McMahon, Brett Weymark tenors - Entry of Phoebus
Song: When a Cruel long Winter
Jamie Allen tenor - Chorus: Hail!Great Parent of us all
- Song: Thus the ever Grateful Spring
Miriam Allan soprano - Song: Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay
Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo-soprano - Song: See my many Colour'd Fields
Paul McMahon tenor - Song: Next, Winter comes Slowly
Stephen Bennett bass - Chorus: Hail!Great Parent of us all
- Fourth Act Tune: Aire
Act V - Prelude
- Epithalamium: Thrice happy Lovers
Sara Macliver soprano - The Plaint: O let me weep
Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano - Entry Dance
- Symphony
- Song: Thus the gloomy World
Jamie Allen tenor - Solo and Chorus: Thus Happy and Free
Belinda Montgomery soprano - Song: Yes, Daphne, in your Looks I find
Jamie Allen tenor - Monkeys' Dance
- Song: Hark! how all Things
Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano - Song and Chorus: Hark! the Echoing Air
Sara Macliver soprano - Duet and Chorus: Sure the dull God of Marriage
Sara Macliver soprano, Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano - Solo: See, see, I obey
Stephen Bennett bass
Duet: Turn then thine Eyes
Sara Macliver soprano, Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano
Solo: My Torch, indeed
Stephen Bennett bass - Chacone: Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman
- Trio and Chorus: They shall be as happy
Sara Macliver soprano, Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano, Stephen Bennett bass |
| Medium: |
CD |
| No. of Discs: |
2 |
| SKU #: |
03134 |
| Label: |
ABC Classics |
| Catalog #: |
476 287-9 |
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