Purcell: King Arthur - John Eliot Gardiner (2 CDS) – ClassicSelect World

With its lavish music and elaborate staging, the semi-opera King Arthur is one of the master-pieces in Purcell's works. On a text by the poet John Dryden very freely inspired from Arthurian legend and specifically devised for him, Purcell created a work of great expressive intensity which includes many of his most beau
With its lavish music and elaborate staging, the semi-opera King Arthur is one of the master-pieces in Purcell's works. On a text by the poet John Dryden very freely inspired from Arthurian legend and specifically devised for him, Purcell created a work of great expressive intensity which includes many of his most beautiful and well-known arias The importance of Monteverdi to John Eliot Gardiner is signalled by the fact that, when he founded a choir in 1964, it was for a performance of Monteverdi Vespers. The Monteverdi Choir went on to celebrate it's 50th anniversary in 2014 with a performance of the same work. - Disc 1 -1 King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture2 King Arthur, Z. 628: Air3 King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture to Act 14 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Woden, First to Thee to Woden, Our Defender (Contralto, Tenor, Bar5 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: The Lot Is Cast, and Tanfan Pleas'd (Soprano)6 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Brave Souls, to Be Renown'd in Story (Chorus)7 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: I Call You All to Woden's Hall (Countertenor, Chorus)8 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: Come If You Dare (Tenor, Chorus)9 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Hither, This Way, This Way Bend (Philidel, Chorus)10 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Let Not a Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye (Grimbald)11 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Hither, This Way, This Way Bend (Chorus)12 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Come, Follow Me (Philidel, Sopranos, Spirits, Chorus)13 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: How Blest Are Shepherds, How Happy Their Lasses (Shepherd, Chorus)14 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Shepherd, Leave Decoying (Shepherdesses)15 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Come, Shepherds, Lead Up a Lively Measure (Chorus)16 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Air17 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle (Cupid)18 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: What Power Art Thou (Cold Genius)19 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Thou Doting Fool, Forbear, Forbear! (Cupid)20 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Great Love, I Know Thee Now (Cold Genius)21 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: No Part of My Dominion Shall Be Waste (Cupid)22 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: See, See, We Assemble (Chorus)23 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: 'Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us (Cupid, Cho24 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Sound a Parley, Ye Fair, and Surrender (Cupid, Cold Genius, Chorus)25 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Hornpipe- Disc 2 -1 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: Two Daughters of This Aged Stream Are We (Sirens)2 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: How Happy the Lover for Love Ev'ry Creature (Nymphs, Men, Chorus)3 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: Air4 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune No. 15 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Ye Blust'ring Brethren of the Skies (Aeolus)6 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Symphony7 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Round Thy Coast, Fair Nymph of Britain (Nereid, Pan, Chorus)8 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: For Folded Flocks, and Fruitful Plains (Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone)9 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Your Hay It Is Mow'd (Comus, Men)10 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Fairest Isle (Venus)11 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: You Say 'Tis Love (She, He)12 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune No. 213 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: ST George the Patron of Our Isle! Our Natives Not Alone Appear (Ho14 King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Chaconne

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