We hear an afternoon of music by Henry Purcell, including complete performances of A Fairy Queen (with Lorraine Hunt) and Dido and Aeneas (with Susan Graham).
The Fairy Queen
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Playlist:
1:00 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983
1:07 pm
- The Fairy Queen: Acts I, II, and III
- Composer: Henry Purcell
- Ensemble: Schütz Choir of London; London Classical Players
- Soloists: Lorraine Hunt, soprano ; Catherine Pierard, soprano ; Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano ; Howard Crook, tenor ; Mark Padmore, tenor ; David Wilson-Johnson, bass
- Conductor: Roger Norrington
- CD/Album: Purcell: The Fairy Queen
- Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 61955
- Release Year: 1994
2:09 pm
- The Fairy Queen: Acts IV and V
- Composer: Henry Purcell
- Ensemble: Schütz Choir of London; London Classical Players
- Soloists: Lorraine Hunt, soprano ; Catherine Pierard, soprano ; Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano ; Howard Crook, tenor ; Mark Padmore, tenor ; David Wilson-Johnson, bass
- Conductor: Roger Norrington
- CD/Album: Purcell: The Fairy Queen
- Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 61955
- Release Year: 1994
2:53 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983
3:19 pm
- Dido and Aeneas
- Composer: Henry Purcell
- Ensemble: European Voices; Le Concert d'Astrée
- Soloists: Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano ; Ian Bostridge, tenor ; Camilla Tilling, soprano ; Felicity Palmer, contralto ; David Daniels, countertenor
- Conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm
- CD/Album: Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
- Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 45605
- Release Year: 2003
4:15 pm
- King Arthur (excerpts)
- Composer: Henry Purcell
- Ensemble: The English Concert & Choir
- Soloists: Jamie Mac Dougall, tenor ; Nancy Argenta, soprano ; Brian Bannatyne-Scott, bass ; Mark Tucker, tenor ; Julia Gooding, soprano
- Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
- CD/Album: Purcell: King Arthur
- Record co./Cat #: Archiv 435490
- Release Year: 1992