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Offer,Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Caroline Mutel (soprano), Guillaume Andrieux (baritone), Kevin Greenlaw (baritone), Virginie Pochon (soprano), Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor), Christophe Baska (counter-tenor), Julien Picard (tenor), Ronan Nédélec (bass), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Frédéric Caton (bass), Hjördis...

Among d’Herin’s large team of soloists, the bass Frederic Caton contributes steady, sensitive performances as Sleep and Winter … his [Herin] orchestra plays extremely well in a style far more... — Opera, February 2018 More…

Release Date: 15th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: GCD922702
Label: Glossa
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Work length2:03:25

$55.00

$71.50

$96.25

Samuel Boden (tenor), Hjördis Thébault (soprano), Caroline Mutel (soprano), Christophe Baska (countertenor), Guillaume Andrieux (baritone), Julien Picard (tenor), Kevin Greenlaw (baritone), Virginie Pochon (soprano), Ronan Nédélec (bass), Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Frédéric Caton (bass)
Les Nouveaux Caractères
Sébastien d'Hérin
Recorded: 21-26 September 2016
Recording Venue: Theatre Laurent Terzieff-Ensatt, Lyon, France

Prelude

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Hornpipe

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Air

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Rondeau

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Overture

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Act I "The Palace of the Duke": Prelude - Come, Come, Come Let Us Leave This Town

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Act I "The Palace of the Duke": Fill up the Bowl, Then…

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Act I "The Palace of the Duke": Jig

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Prelude

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Come All Ye Songsters of the Sky

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Prelude. Birds Fly Down, Singing

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Trio. May the God of Wit Inspire

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Now Join Your Warbling Voices All

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Sing While We Trip It upon the Green

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Act II "The Great Grotto": See, Even Night Herself Is Here

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Act II "The Great Grotto": I Am Come to Lock All Fast

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Act II "The Great Grotto": One Charming Night

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Hush, No More, Be Silent All

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Dance for the Followers of Night

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Act II "The Great Grotto": Air

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Act III "A Forest Glade": Prelude - If Love's a Sweet Passion

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Act III "A Forest Glade": Överture. Symphony While the Swans Come Forward

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Act III "A Forest Glade": Dance for the Fairies

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Act III "A Forest Glade": Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air, Appear!

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Act III "A Forest Glade": Now the Maids and the Men Are Making of Hay

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Act III "A Forest Glade": Dance for the Haymakers

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Act III "A Forest Glade": When I Have Often Heard Young Maids Complaining

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Act III "A Forest Glade": A Thousand, Thousand Ways We'll Find

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Act III "A Forest Glade": Hornpipe

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Symphony

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Now the Night Is Chased Away

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Let the Fifes and the Clarions and Shrill Trumpets Sound

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Entry of Phoebus

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Prelude - When a Cruel Long Winter Has Frozen the Earth

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Hail! Great Parent of Us All

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Thus the Ever Grateful Spring

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": See My Many Coloured Fields

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Next, Winter Comes Slowly

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Act IV "A Garden of Fountains": Air

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Prelude to Juno’s Song - Thrice Happy Lovers

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": O Let Me Ever, Ever Weep

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Entry Dance

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Symphony

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Thus the Gloomy World

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Thus Happy and Free

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Yes, Xansi, in Your Looks I Find

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Monkey's Dance

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Prelude - Hark! How All Things with One Sound Rejoice

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Hark Now the Echoing Air a Triumph Sings

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Sure the Dull God of Marriage Does Not Hear

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Prelude - See, See, I Obey

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": They Shall Be as Happy as They're Fair

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Act V "In a Chinese Garden": Chaconne. Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman

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With 'The Fairy Queen', Sébastien d’Hérin and Les Nouveaux Caractères set down on record their musical vision of one of Henry Purcell’s most compelling dramatic works. The 1692/1693 work dates from around half a century before two other Baroque scores which Les Nouveaux Caractères has tackled recently and received significant critical approval: Leclair’s 'Scylla et Glaucus' and Rameau’s 'Les Surprises de l’Amour' (the latter, like 'The Fairy Queen', appearing on Glossa).

Being a semi-opera, the music of 'The Fairy Queen' doesn’t need to follow a narrative methodically from start to finish and, indeed, what we get is essentially a series of self-contained masques. Purcell channels the spirit of William Shakespeare’s' A Midsummer Night’s Dream' rather than using the text of that comedy; many characters appear across the work but yet Purcell’s music is of great coherence. Not unlike Purcell himself, Sébastien d’Hérin has opted not to use a formal chorus but to have a long-established team of musical partners singing the choral parts as well as the solo roles. Among the modern-day singers are Anders Dahlin, Samuel Boden, Caitlin Hulcup (who sings “An Epithalamium”), Virginie Pochon, Guillaume Andrieux, Hjördis Thébault and Caroline Mutel (to whom is entrusted “The Plaint”). Alongside the typical instruments of the string, wind and continuo departments of d’Hérin’s orchestra are to be found a serpent, a cornett and a regal.

In the booklet essay, the conductor himself explains how this new production of 'The Fairy Queen' has taken shape over a period of ten years.

Artists

Les Nouveaux Caractères, Sébastien d'Hérin

Reviews

February 2018

Among d’Herin’s large team of soloists, the bass Frederic Caton contributes steady, sensitive performances as Sleep and Winter … his [Herin] orchestra plays extremely well in a style far more in keeping with contemporary expectations.

5th November 2017

If some of the 12 solo voices (which also form the chorus) are a little flimsy, the rhythmic vitality of the playing and d’Hérin’s direction are a joy.

Offer,Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

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