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FREDERICK RENZ & THE NEW YORK EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE: THE MUSICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY RECORDINGS

Purcell: Excerpts from The Fairy Queen; Odes and Elegies for Queen Mary - New York Ensemble for Early Music's Grande Bande, Frederick Renz

Purcell: Excerpts from The Fairy Queen; Odes and Elegies for Queen Mary - New York Ensemble for Early Music's Grande Bande, Frederick Renz

A romp through some of Purcell's most accessible music, featuring stars of the New York early music stage, including Julianne Baird, James Bowman and Frederick Renz.

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Suite from Act III: Symphony while the Swans come forward - Dance for the Fairies - Dance for the Green Men - Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa (Wilbur Pauley, Peter Becker) - Dance for the Haymakers
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Three Songs from The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: See, even Night herself is here - I am come to lock all fast - Hush, no more
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Suite from The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act I: Prelude - Hornpipe - Air - Rondeau - Jig
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Two Songs from The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay - Now Winter comes slowly
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Suite from The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Symphony - Hark! The echoing air - Chaconne - They shall be as happy
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Overture
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Song & Chorus: Come Ye Sons of Art
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Duet: Sound the trumpet
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Symphony and Chorus
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Song: Strike the viol
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Song & Chorus: The day that such a blessing gave
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Song: Bid the Virtues
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Song: These are the sacred charms
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Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694): Duet & Chorus: See Nature rejoicing
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An Ode to The Queen, Z. 465: High on a Throne of Glitt'ring Ore
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O Dive custos Auriacae Domus, Z. 504
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The Fairy Queen liner notes
In 17th-century England it was not the custom to ring, down the curtain between the acts of a play or an opera; instead, musical interludes -- were played both to keep the audience entertained while sets were changed and to bridge the moods of the acts. Much of the instrumental music included in the suites taken from acts 3 and 5 of Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen on this recording, comes from these interludes, or "Act Tunes," as they were known. In the first version of The Fairy Queen, which premiered at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Gardens in London, on May 2, 1692, there was no music at all in the first act. The four masques were inserted, one each, into the remaining, four acts of this five-act opera with dialogue. The first masque begins at the point where the spirits of Night, Mystery, Secrecy, and Sleep come in at King, Oberon's bidding, and sing, Titania to sleep, after the presentation of a group of fairy divertissements.
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Julianne Baird, soprano
James Bowman, Peter Becker, countertenors
Stephen Sturck, tenor
Wilbur Pauley, bass
New York Ensemble for Early Music's Grande Bande
Frederick Renz, conductor
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