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Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Artist
Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, Penelope Howard
Label
Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue Number
HMM332313
Release Date
November 8, 2019
  • Vinyl 3×LP

    $19.99

    180 gr, limited edition

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    HMM332313

    Remastered from the analogic masters

On the strength of the immense success of Dido & 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. But this version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the ‘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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