Purcell: Tyrannic Love

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The theme is love, but there’s nothing coy or sugary about either music or performances that embrace extremes of emotion and expression...Much of this is theatre music, and in the absence of... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…

Release Date: 22nd Jan 2021
Catalogue No: ALPHA663
Label: Alpha
Length: 60 minutes

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Purcell: Hornpipe (from King Arthur)

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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Eccles, J: I burn my brain consumes to ashes

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Eugénie Lefebvre, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Blow: Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain

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Etienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Purcell: The Prophetess, or the History of Dioclesian, Z. 627: Dance of the Furies

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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Purcell: There's not a swain (from Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z587)

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Eugénie Lefebvre, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Excerpt, Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Hornpipe

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Dance for the Fairies

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Dance for the Green Men

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Excerpt, Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630

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Etienne Bazola, Eugénie Lefebvre, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

"Ye Twice Ten-Hundred Deities"

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Symphony

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"Seek Not to Know"

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Blow: Saraband for the Graces (from Venus and Adonis)

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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Purcell: There's Nothing So Fatal As Woman (from A Fool's Preferment, Z571)

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Etienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Purcell: Overture in gamut flat, Z.T693, "The Virtuous Wife"

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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Eccles, J: Sleep, Poor Youth (from The Comical History of Don Quixote)

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Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Excerpt, Purcell: The Virtuous Wife, Z. 611

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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Slow Air

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Air

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Purcell: So when the glittering Queen of Night

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Eugénie Lefebvre, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Purcell: This poet sings the Trojan wars ('Anacreon's Defeat') Z423

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Etienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Clarke, Jeremiah: Ground in D minor (from Song on the Assumption)

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Purcell, D: My Dearest, My Fairest (from Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, Z. 585)

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Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Purcell: Hark! My Damilcar (from Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr, Z. 613)

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Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Purcell: Chaconne (From King Arthur)

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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

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Until the late 1680s, Henry Purcell composed almost exclusively for the royal court. But when the monarchy decided to reduce its expenditure on music in 1690, he joined the United Company, a London theatre company, and devoted himself to composing for its productions. These took varied forms, with operas such as King Arthur (1691), The Fairy Queen (1692) and The Indian Queen (1695) but also spoken plays with music, such as The Virtuous Wife (1695). It is excerpts from these works that are presented in Tyrannic Love. Compositions by Purcell's colleagues or followers John Blow, John Eccles, Jeremiah Clarke and Daniel Purcell complete the programme. This recording marks the beginning of the collaboration between Alpha and the ensemble Les Surprises, founded in 2010, which takes its name from Les Surprises de l Amour by Rameau, the group's emblematic composer. Under the artistic direction of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, who is also an organist and harpsichordist, the ensemble presents innovative interpretations and explores the rich orchestral sonorities made possible by the use of Baroque instruments.

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February 2021

The theme is love, but there’s nothing coy or sugary about either music or performances that embrace extremes of emotion and expression...Much of this is theatre music, and in the absence of a stage Les Surprises supply all the drama...There’s delight after delight here, both in repertoire – which includes plenty of lesser-known treasures – and performances. This is one French invasion to welcome with open arms.

30th January 2021

Directed by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, with singers Eugénie Lefebvre and Etienne Bazola, the group take a brisk approach, but are capable of intimacy too, giving a sympathetic account of Blow’s air Poor Celadon.

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