Purcell: Theatre Music |  | Creators: Christopher Keyte, David Thomas, Michael George, Geoffrey Shaw, Henry Purcell, Christopher Hogwood, James Bowman, Academy of Ancient Music, Joy Roberts, Judith Nelson, Elizabeth Lane, Prudence Lloyd, Emma Kirkby, Rogers Covey-Crump, Peter Bamber, Alan Byers, Paul Elliott, Martyn Hill, Julian Pike
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 51059
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.9
MPN: LL-603
UPC: 028947552925
EAN: 0028947552925
ASIN: B0001Y4JHA
Release Date: October 12, 2004
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Disc 1
| • | Abdelazer, or, the Moor's Revenge, incidental music, Z. 570: Overture | | • | Abdelazer, or, the Moor's Revenge, incidental music, Z. 570: Rondeau - Air - Air - Minuet | | • | Abdelazer, or, the Moor's Revenge, incidental music, Z. 570: Air - Jig - Hornpipe - Air | | • | Abdelazer, or, the Moor's Revenge, incidental music, Z. 570: Song: Lucinda is bewitching fair | | • | Distressed Innocence, or, the Princess of Persia, incidental music, Z. 577: Overture | | • | Distressed Innocence, or, the Princess of Persia, incidental music, Z. 577: Air - Slow Air - Air - Hornpipe or Jig | | • | Distressed Innocence, or, the Princess of Persia, incidental music, Z. 577: Rondeau - Air - Minuet | | • | The Married Beau, or, the Curious Impertinent, incidental music, Z. 603: Overture | | • | The Married Beau, or, the Curious Impertinent, incidental music, Z. 603: Slow Air - Hornpipe | | • | The Married Beau, or, the Curious Impertinent, incidental music, Z. 603: Air - Hornpipe - Jig | | • | The Married Beau, or, the Curious Impertinent, incidental music, Z. 603: Trumpet Air - March - Hornpipe on a ground | | • | The Married Beau, or, the Curious Impertinent, incidental music, Z. 603: Song: See! where repenting Celia lyes | | • | The Gordian Knot Unty'd, incidental music, Z. 597: Overture | | • | The Gordian Knot Unty'd, incidental music, Z. 597: Air - Rondeau Minuet - Air - Jig | | • | The Gordian Knot Unty'd, incidental music, Z. 597: Chaconne - Air - Minuet | | • | Sir Anthony Love, or, the Rambling Lady, incidental music, Z. 588: Overture | | • | Sir Anthony Love, or, the Rambling Lady, incidental music, Z. 588: Pursuing Beauty | | • | Sir Anthony Love, or, the Rambling Lady, incidental music, Z. 588: No more, Sir, no more | | • | Sir Anthony Love, or, the Rambling Lady, incidental music, Z. 588: In vain Clemene | | • | Sir Anthony Love, or, the Rambling Lady, incidental music, Z. 588: Ground |
Disc 2
| • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Overture | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Air - Hornpipe - Air | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Hornpipe - Air - Minuet | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Jack, thou'rt a toper | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Hear us great Rugwith | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Hear, ye Gods of Britain | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Sing, sing, ye Druids! | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Divine Andate, president of war | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: To arms | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: Britons strike home! | | • | Bonduca, or, The British Heroine, incidental music, Z. 574: O lead me to some peaceful gloom | | • | Circe, incidental music, Z. 575: We must assemble by a sacrifice | | • | Circe, incidental music, Z. 575: Their necessary aid you use | | • | Circe, incidental music, Z. 575: Come every demon | | • | Circe, incidental music, Z. 575: Lovers, who to their first embraces go | | • | Circe, incidental music, Z. 575: Magicians' Dance ... Pluto, arise! | | • | The Virtuous Wife, or, Good Luck at Last, incidental music, Z. 611: Overture | | • | The Virtuous Wife, or, Good Luck at Last, incidental music, Z. 611: Song tune - Slow Air - Air | | • | The Virtuous Wife, or, Good Luck at Last, incidental music, Z. 611: Preludio - Hornpipe - Minuet - Minuet (1st Act tune) | | • | The Old Bachelor, incidental music, Z. 607: Overture | | • | The Old Bachelor, incidental music, Z. 607: Hornpipe | | • | The Old Bachelor, incidental music, Z. 607: Thus to a ripe, consenting maid | | • | The Old Bachelor, incidental music, Z. 607: Slow Air - Hornpipe | | • | The Old Bachelor, incidental music, Z. 607: As Amoret and Thyrsis lay | | • | The Old Bachelor, incidental music, Z. 607: Rondeau - Menuet - Boree - March - Jig |
Disc 3
| • | Overture and Suite for 2 violins, viola & continuo in G major, Z. 770 (inner parts incomplete) | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: Sing all ye Muses | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: When the world first knew creation | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: Let the dreadful engines of eternal will | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: With this sacred charming wand | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: Since times are so bad | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: Genius of England | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: Lads and Lasses, blithe and gay | | • | Don Quixote, incidental music, Z. 578: From rosie bow'rs | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: Overture | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: Saraband | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: Celia, that I once was blest | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: Hornpipe - Scotch tune | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: For Iris I sigh | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: Air - Minuet - Hornpipe | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: Fair Iris and her swain | | • | Amphitryon, or, the Two Sosias, incidental music, Z. 572: Bourrée |
Disc 4
| • | The Double Dealer, incidental music, Z. 592: Overture | | • | The Double Dealer, incidental music, Z. 592: Hornpipe - Minuet - Air - Hornpipe | | • | The Double Dealer, incidental music, Z. 592: Cynthia frowns | | • | The Double Dealer, incidental music, Z. 592: Minuet - Minuet - Air - Air | | • | The Richmond Heiress, or, A Woman Once in the Right, incidental music, Z. 608: Behold the man | | • | The Rival Sisters, or, the Violence of Love, incidental music, Z. 609: Overture | | • | The Rival Sisters, or, the Violence of Love, incidental music, Z. 609: Celia has a thousand charms | | • | The Rival Sisters, or, the Violence of Love, incidental music, Z. 609: Take not a woman's anger ill | | • | The Rival Sisters, or, the Violence of Love, incidental music, Z. 609: How happy, how happy is she | | • | Henry II, King of England, incidental music, Z. 580: In vain, 'gainst Love, in vain I strove | | • | Tyrannic Love, or, the Royal Martyr, incidental music, Z. 613: Hark! my Damilcar! | | • | Tyrannic Love, or, the Royal Martyr, incidental music, Z. 613: Ah! how sweet it is to love | | • | Overture for 2 violins, 2 violas & continuo in G minor, Z. 772 | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Prepare, prepare, the rites begin | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Cans't thou, Marina | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: The gate to bliss | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Hark! Hark! behold the heav'nly choir | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Now the fight's done | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Sad as death at dead of night | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Dream no more of pleasures past | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Hail to the myrtle shade | | • | Theodosius, or, the Force of Love, incidental music, Z.606: Ah cruel, bloody Fate |
Disc 5
| • | The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600: Nymphs and shepherds | | • | The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600: We come | | • | The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600: Prelude | | • | The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600: Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near | | • | The Libertine, or, the Libertine Destroyed, incidental music, Z. 600: To arms, heroic prince | | • | The Massacre of Paris, incidental music, Z. 604: Thy genius, Io (2 settings) | | • | Oedipus, incidental music, Z. 583: Hear, ye sullen powers below | | • | Oedipus, incidental music, Z. 583: Music for a while | | • | Oedipus, incidental music, Z. 583: Come away, do not stay ... Laius! Hear, hear | | • | Overture for 2 violins, viola & continuo in D minor, Z. 771 | | • | The History of King Richard II, or, The Sicilian Usurper, incidental music, Z. 581: Retir'd from any mortal's sight | | • | Sir Barnaby Whigg, or, No Wit Like a Woman's, incidental music, Z. 589: Blow, blow, Boreas, blow | | • | Sophonisba, or Hannibal's Overthrow, incidental music, Z. 590: Beneath the poplar's shadow | | • | The English Lawyer, incidental music, Z. 594: My wife has a tongue | | • | A Fool's Preferment, or, The Three Dukes of Dunstable, incidental music, Z. 571: I sigh'd, and I pin'd ... There's nothing so fatal a | | • | A Fool's Preferment, or, The Three Dukes of Dunstable, incidental music, Z. 571: Fled is my love ... 'Tis death alone ... I'll mount | | • | A Fool's Preferment, or, The Three Dukes of Dunstable, incidental music, Z. 571: I'll sail upon the Dog-star | | • | A Fool's Preferment, or, The Three Dukes of Dunstable, incidental music, Z. 571: Jenny, 'gin you can love | | • | A Fool's Preferment, or, The Three Dukes of Dunstable, incidental music, Z. 571: If thou wilt give me back my love | | • | The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, incidental music, Z. 598: I look'd, and saw within | | • | The Knight of Malta, incidental music, Z. 599: At the close of the ev'ning | | • | Why, my Daphne, why complaining? (A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne), song for soprano, bass & continuo, Z. 525: Why, my Daphne, | | • | The Wives' Excuse, or, Cuckolds Make Themselves, incidental music, Z. 612: Ingrateful love! | | • | The Wives' Excuse, or, Cuckolds Make Themselves, incidental music, Z. 612: Hang this whining way of wooing | | • | The Wives' Excuse, or, Cuckolds Make Themselves, incidental music, Z. 612: Say, cruel Amoret ... Corinna, I excuse thy face | | • | Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, incidental music, Z. 576: No, no, poor suff'ring heart | | • | Regulus, or, the Faction of Carthage, incidental music, Z. 586: Ah me! to many deaths | | • | The Marriage-Hater Match'd, incidental music, Z. 602: As soon as the chaos ... How vile are the sordid intregues |
Disc 6
| • | Love Triumphant, or Nature Will Prevail, incidental music, Z. 582: How happy's the husband | | • | Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, incidental music, Z. 587: There's not a swain | | • | The Female Virtuosos, incidental music, Z. 596: Love, thou art best | | • | Epsom Wells, incidental music, Z. 579: Leave these useless arts | | • | The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any Rather than Fail, incidental music, Z. 601: Though you make no return | | • | The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any Rather than Fail, incidental music, Z. 601: No, resistance is but vain | | • | The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any Rather than Fail, incidental music, Z. 601: Tell me no more | | • | Aureng-Zebe, or, the Great Mogul, incidental music, Z. 573: I see, she flies me | | • | The Canterbury Guests, or, A Bargain Broken, incidental music, Z. 591: Good neighbour why? | | • | The Fatal Marriage, or, the Innocent Adultery, incidental music, Z. 595: The danger is over | | • | The Fatal Marriage, or, the Innocent Adultery, incidental music, Z. 595: I sigh'd and owned my love | | • | Spanish Friar, or, the Double Discovery, incidental music, Z. 610: Whilst I with grief | | • | Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, incidental music, Z. 585: Sweeter than roses | | • | Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, incidental music, Z. 585: My dearest, my fairest | | • | The Mock Marriage, incidental music, Z. 605: Oh! how you protest ... 'Twas within a furlong ... Man is for the woman made | | • | Oroonoko, incidental music, Z. 584: Celemene, pray tell me | | • | Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in A major, Z. 748 | | • | Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in A minor, Z. 749 | | • | Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in B flat major, Z. 750 | | • | Pavan for 2 violins & continuo in G minor, Z. 751 | | • | Pavan for 3 violins & continuo in G minor, Z. 752 | | • | Sonata for violin & continuo (Trio Sonata) in G minor, Z. 780 | | • | Chacony, for 4 strings in G minor, Z. 730 |
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Fine reissue of a classic set May 24, 2006
N. Chevalier (Regina, Sask. Canada)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Imagine the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures, fluffy, unfunny comedies, big but stiff epics. Now imagine that one of the greatest living composers was working in Hollywood, turning out astonishing, hauntingly beautiful and stirring musical scores for these throwaway movies. That's what you get with this set: music Henry Purcell composed for some two dozen often utterly forgettable plays (trust me--I've read a number of them!) Occasionally, when he teams up with a playwright worthy of his stature, such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, or William Congreve, the results are even better, but for the most part you can enjoy the music here without knowing anything about the original plays.
This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.
Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.
My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.
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