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Purcell - The Fairy Queen | Harmonia Mundi HAF890130809

Purcell - The Fairy Queen

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HAF890130809

Barcode: 3149020950104

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 29th September 2023

Contents

Artists

Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

Works

Purcell, Henry

The Fairy Queen, Z629

Artists

Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

About

On the strength of the immense success of Dido and Aeneas and King Arthur, in 1692 Purcell went on to produce The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The work is, in fact, a ‘semi-opera’, or ‘opera with dialogue’, in which only some of the crucial scenes are provided with music.

However, this version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by ‘Orpheus Britannicus’ became almost as famous as the play that inspired it, with its love scenes, its supernatural scenes and its innate sense of musical humour investing it with an irresistible savour and enchantment.

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