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Purcell - King Arthur (Vinyl LP) | Erato 5419745254

Purcell - King Arthur (Vinyl LP)

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 5419745254

Barcode: 5054197452543

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 21st April 2023

Contents

Artists

Jennifer Smith (soprano)
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
Elisabeth Priday (soprano)
Gill Ross (soprano)
Ashley Stafford (countertenor)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Works

Purcell, Henry

King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628

Artists

Jennifer Smith (soprano)
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
Elisabeth Priday (soprano)
Gill Ross (soprano)
Ashley Stafford (countertenor)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

About

*** 2x 180g Black Vinyl LP ***

John Eliot Gardiner celebrates his 80th birthday on 20 April 2023. Warner Classics are releasing a 64-CD boxset including his complete Erato Recordings, and are also celebrating this wonderful conductor with two of his most emblematic albums to be released on vinyl: Purcell’s King Arthur and Handel’s Water Music.

As John Eliot Gardiner converted his Monteverdi Orchestra to early instruments in the mid-1970s and renamed it the English Baroque Soloists, he engaged his magnificent instrumentalists, choir and a host of first-class soloists in the most emblematic works by “the Greatest Genius we [England] ever had”: Henry Purcell! The reception was unanimously enthusiastic and led Diapason magazine to say: “Gardiner's reading of Purcell, dramatic, hyper-refined, sometimes burning, overwhelming, at all times enchanting, cannot escape the discography of the enlightened music lover. Purcell himself is there!”

King Arthur was first staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London in mid-1691. It proved to be the most popular and enduring of all Purcell’s stage works, and enjoyed revivals throughout the eighteenth century and beyond.

Recorded: 10-12 & 24-27.I.1983, St. Giles Cripplegate, London
Producer: Yolanta Skura
Balance engineer: Pierre Lavoix

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