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Dido & Aeneas-Comp Opera

~ Henry Purcell (Composer), Andrew Parrott (Conductor), Taverner Consort Choir (Orchestra), Taverner Consort Players (Orchestra), David Evan Thomas (Performer), et al.
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1. Dido & Aeneas: Overture
2. Dido & Aeneas: Act II Scene 1 (The Cave)
3. Dido & Aeneas: Act I Scene 2 (The Grove)
4. Dido & Aeneas: Act III (The Ships)
On this CD:
  1. Dido and Aeneas, opera, Z. 626
    Composed by Henry Purcell
    Performed by Taverner Consort Choir, Taverner Consort Players
    with David Evan Thomas, David Evan Thomas, Rachel Bevan, Tessa Bonner, Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Janita Noorman, Judith Rees
    Conducted by Andrew Parrott

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In this first period-instrument recording of Dido, Andrew Parrott tries to re-create the first known performance of the work--at Josiah Priest's School for Young Gentlewomen in London. Here (as there) the cast includes only one male--David Thomas, whose brawny Aeneas could overwhelm Dido physically as well as emotionally. Judith Nelson is a warm, sweet-toned Belinda; the Sorceress gets a vivid, raucous, love-it-or-hate-it performance by the legendary medieval-cum-folk-singer Jantina Noorman. Emma Kirkby, early in her career, sounds eloquent but extremely youthful as Dido--barely past her teens. This makes for a different, perhaps more credible, tragedy: a new, slightly immature queen, servant rather than mistress of her emotions, angrily refuses to take back the lover who abandoned her--only to die heartbroken after banishing him. --Matthew Westphal

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1.0 out of 5 stars Parrott parrotts, Jan 30 2003
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I am a big of early music. In particular, I enjoy early music done on original intsruments. Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed listening to this recording of great music. I enjoyed the singing on this recording, but the orchestral excusions were poorly done. Thanks to Parrott's skewed version, music is was lifeless, boring and poorly done. Despite what the critics say about Parrott, I have found all of his recordings utterly boring, and unamuzing. There are not even academic. This piece is not recommended. I encourage Kirby and other singers to pair up with better conductors.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An hour of unalloyed pleasure, Feb 10 2000
By Mark Swinton (York, UK) - See all my reviews
I studied "Dido and Aeneas" about two years ago having performed in it at school, and at this precise moment I am four weeks away from another production with the York University Chamber Choir. In the words of our conductor Peter Seymour, this piece is indeed an hour of unalloyed pleasure, and this is one of the best out of at least five recordings I am familiar with.

Emma Kirkby's wonderfully pure voice is just the thing to create the true Dido effect: most other soprani interpret it well but bring an inappropriately operatic vibrato to a quintessentially Baroque sound world. In some ways this is also a disadvantage, as her Dido also sounds rather more young and innocent than we might imagine, but then again, what else is opera about but a catalyst for the imagination? One other performer needs complimenting, namely Jantina Noorman, who sincerely had me shivering from her first note as the Sorceress. The casting is not entirely brilliant - why did they have a soprano as the Sailor? - but the Taverner Choir adds a sparkling vocal background whilst the linked orchestra is also very good and very well directed. The only further problem I would add (and a minor problem at that) is the division of the tracks - there are only four tracks, whereas the technology available to later producers has enabled them to split the opera up more conveniently for students and listeners who buy this for particular favourite moments.

This release is now 19 years old - but Chandos still have every reason to be proud of it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars After one listen..., Jan 4 2000
By M. Wilson (Sunnydale :-)) - See all my reviews
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I was introduced to Dido's lament at the end of the opera by my intro to music lit class; Emma Kirkby's on this album makes it worth buying.
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