Purcell: The Indian Queen - Baroque Opera Album by The Sixteen | Perfect for Classical Music Lovers & Historical Performance Enthusiasts
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Album Description
Henry Purcell was a brilliant music dramatist and in The Indian Queen there is a plethora of detail, colour and characterisation to be explored in every symphony, air and dance. Purcell's instrumental writing leaps off the page with string writing that is second to none and a wealth of variety capped by exquisite writing for trumpet, oboes and recorders.
Based on Dryden’s play, Henry Purcell’s music from The Indian Queen deals with the conflict between the Mexican and Peruvians and principally with Queen Zempoalla. The Indian Queen is a classic story of love and war and, as with all good stories, things don’t go quite as planned for the eponymous Queen…
There is so much exceptional vocal music to revel in but none better than the extraordinary recitative You twice ten hundred deities for the magician Ismeron which opens Act III, and was described by the historian Charles Burney as “the best piece of recitative in our language”.
Like Mozart and Schubert, Henry Purcell lived all too short a life – he lived just over 30 years – and for that reason it was left to his brother Daniel to complete The Indian Queen. Daniel was no Henry but his final Hymeneal masque allows a little light relief. Act V, which was the last music that Henry wrote, is a perfect Didoesque ending to The Indian Queen proper and just proves how we as music lovers suffer when these geniuses die young.
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The Sixteen Harry Christophers
Behind-the-Scenes Video
Track Listing
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 1. Catch: To all lovers of music, performers and scrapers
The Indian Queen First Music 2. Air 3. Hornpipe
Second Music 4. Air 5. Hornpipe
Act 1 6. Overture 7. Trumpet Tune
Prologue: 8. Wake, Quivera, our soft rest must cease 9 Why should men quarrel here, where all possess 10. By ancient prophecies we have been told
11. Trumpet Tune
Act II 12. Symphony 13. I come to sing great Zempoalla's story 14. What flatt'ring noise is this 15. Begone, curst fiends of Hell 16. We come to sing great Zempoalla's story
Act III 17. You twice ten hundred deities 18. Symphony: The God of Dreams rises 19. Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd 20. Trumpet Overture 21. Ah, how happy are we 22. We, the spirits of the air 23. I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain - Third Act Tune: Rondeau
Act IV 24. They tell us that your mighty powers 25. Fourth Act Tune: Air
Act V 26. While thus we bow before your shrine
Daniel Purcell (1664-1717) The Masque of Hymen 27. Symphony 28. To bless the genial bed with chaste delights 29. Come all, come all 30. I'm glad I have met him 31. Good people, I'd make you all blest if I could 32. My honey, my pug 33. The joys of wedlock soon are past 34. Sound, sound the trumpet, let Love's subjects know 35. Make haste, make haste to put on Love's chains 36. Trumpet Air 37. Let loud Renown with all her thousand tongues