Purcell - Dido & Aeneas / Galliard - Pan & Syrinx
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94178
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 21st March 2011
Contents
Artists
Matthew BakerFrancine Van Der Heijden
Penni Clarke
Helene Rasker
Maaike Poorthuis
Yong-Hee Kim
Rowena Simpson
Richard Zook
Johannette Zomer
Marc Pantus
Nicola Wemyss
Mitchell Sandler
Musica Ad Rhenum
Conductor
Jed WentzWorks
Pan and SyrinxDido and Aeneas
Timon of Athens: Masque
Artists
Matthew BakerFrancine Van Der Heijden
Penni Clarke
Helene Rasker
Maaike Poorthuis
Yong-Hee Kim
Rowena Simpson
Richard Zook
Johannette Zomer
Marc Pantus
Nicola Wemyss
Mitchell Sandler
Musica Ad Rhenum
Conductor
Jed WentzAbout
The name John Ernest Galliard may be unfamiliar to many. He was German born, but took British citizenship, and settled in London in 1706. He was a chamber musician to Prince George of Denmark, and was also organist at Somerset House, and an oboist in the opera orchestra under Handel. He wrote many operas and other stage works, and Pan and Syrinx was premiered in Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre in 1718.
Pan and Syrinx provides the perfect foil to Purcell’s dark masterpiece Dido and Aeneas. Both works portray love's destructive powers, though in different ways. Galliard’s treatment is light and comic, Purcell’s tragic and destructive.
These are period practice performances, and for Dido, Jed Wentz has used several dances and one chorus by Purcell to fill in gaps in the score as the libretto mentions musical scenes that have been lost.
This is a fascinating coupling of one of the great masterpieces of English music with a rare work by a fellow German contemporary of Handel who also made London his home.
Recording made by WDR in 2004.
Cast:
Purcell - Dido & Aeneas
- Dido: Nicola Wemyss
- Aeneas: Matthew Baker
- Belinda: Francine Van Der Heijden
- Second Woman: Penni Clarke
- Sorceress: Helene Rasker
- First Witch: Maaike Poorthuis
- Second Witch: Yong-Hee Kim
- Spirit: Rowena Simpson
- Sailor: Richard Zook
Galliard - Pan & Syrinx
- First Witch: Maaike Poorthuis
- Syrinx: Johannette Zomer
- Pan: Marc Pantus
- Diana: Nicola Wemyss
- Sylvan: Mitchell Sandler
- Nymph: Richard Zook
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