Purcell: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward

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Release Date: 1st Jun 2018
Catalogue No: CC72783
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 78 minutes

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Purcell: Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627

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Johannette Zomer
La Sfera Armoniosa
Mike Fentross

Symphony for Trumpets and Violins

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First Music

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What Shall I Do to Show Her How Much I Love Her

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Butterfly Dance

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Dance of Furies

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Since from My Dear

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Tune for Trumpets

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Canaries

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Excerpt, Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630

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Johannette Zomer
La Sfera Armoniosa
Mike Fentross

Air

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I Attempt from Love’s Sickness

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Hornpipe

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Excerpt, Purcell: King Arthur, Z628

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Johannette Zomer
La Sfera Armoniosa
Mike Fentross

Overture

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First Act Tune

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Hornpipe

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Fairest Isle

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Trumpet Tune

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St. George, The Patron of Our Isle

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Chaconne

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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

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Johannette Zomer
La Sfera Armoniosa
Mike Fentross

Preludio

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Hornpipe

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Air

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Rondeau

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Symphony While the Swans Come Forward

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If Love's a Sweet Passion

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Symphony: Prelude, Canzona, Largo, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro

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Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air

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Dance for the Followers Night

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See Even Night Herself Is Here

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Air II

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Hark! The Echoing Air

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Grand Dance

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The first recording on Challenge Classics by the wonderful Dutch baroque orchestra, La Sfera Armoniosa. For its debut, La Sfera Armoniosa and its artistic director Mike Febtross have chosen orchestral music and arias from operas by Henry Purcell. Well-known baroque specialist, soprano Johannette Zomer joins the orchestra in this live recording.

La Sfera Armoniosa, founded in 1992, is a Dutch Baroque ensemble and orchestra specialized in the performance of music from the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Mike Fentross: I was really moved when I heard my orchestra play the opening bars of the Purcell. I heard a sound that was quite different to what I knew from other present-day baroque orchestras. Was this sound closer to that of Purcell's own orchestra, a sound that he may have had in mind when composing this wondrous music? In the very first chat I had about this project with Lidewij van der Voort, our new concertmaster, we talked about the modern adaptations that are often (and understandably) applied to baroque instruments nowadays, and about the possibility of going back to authentic strings (completely bare gut) and a 17th century bow hold (the French grip) for this Purcell project. As it happens, I'd had a similar conversation not long before that with Lidewei de Sterck, our principal oboist, about authentic reeds (scraped from the inside) and with Graham Nicholson, about 17th century trumpets (natural trumpets with no finger holes). These aspects, seemingly just details, have a major impact not just on the sound but also the way of playing and therefore on the way we interpret the music. We all felt the need to record this CD with these 'experimental' instruments. An orchestral sound with so much transparency and colour, a way of playing with such narrative power! I'm full of admiration for the musicians who played so beautifully and who were prepared to take up the challenge of moving away from a well-trodden path.

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