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King Arthur
Teodor Currentzis
King Arthur
Teodor Currentzis
Vox Luminis already boasts an impressive discography, orientated mainly towards sacred music and German repertoire (it's album devoted to music by Heinrich Schütz won the Gramophone 'Best Recording of the Year' Award in 2013). Now this ensemble, founded nearly fifteen years ago by Lionel Meunier, has scaled one of the summits of English music: the legend of King Arthur and his mentor the wizard Merlin inspired one of Henry Purcell's most popular successes, King Arthur, a semi-opera on which Purcell lavished all his exuberant musical and theatrical inventiveness. In this revelatory new reading, the Vox Luminis vocal sound always perfectly matches the mix of choruses and highly characterized vocal solos. Prior to recording, the group presented the work in many semi-staged concerts, notably in Britain, where this Franco-Belgian ensemble has enjoyed enormous success, becoming one of the most respected European ambassadors for baroque music-making.
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 2 |
Composer | Purcell, Henry |
Released | November 1, 2018 |
EAN/UPC | 3760014194306 |
Label | ALPHA ALLP430.2 |
Genre | Vocal Music |
Dimensions | 124 × 139 × 17 mm · 135 g |
Conductor | Lionel Meunier |
Orchestra | Vox Luminis |
Track list
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1. CD
- Vox Luminis; Lionel Meunier - King Arthur, Z.628
- First Music: Overture
- Second Music: Aire
- Overture
- Altar Music from Bonduca
- Woden, First to Thee (First & Second Saxon Pries
- The White Horse Neighed Aloud (Priestess, Second P
- The Lot is Cast (Priestess)
- Brave Souls (Chorus)
- I Call You All the Woden's Hall (Priestess, Chorus
- Come if You Dare (British Warrior, Chorus)
- First Act Tune
- Hither, This Way (Philidel, Chorus)
- Let Not a Moon-born Elf (Grimbald)
- Hither, This Way (Chorus)
- Come Follow Me (Soli & Chorus)
- How Blest Are Shepherds (Solo & Chorus)
- Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying (Duet with Symp
- Come, Shepherds, Lead Up (Chorus)
- Hornpipe
- Second Act Tune: Aire
- Prelude to the Frost Scene
- What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle (Solo)
- What Power Art Thou (Cold Genius)
- Thou Doting Fool (Cupid)
- Great Love, I Know Thee Now (Cold Genius)
- No Part of My Dominion Shall Be Waste (Cupid)
- Prelude
- See We Assemble Thy Revels to Hold (Chorus)
- Dance
- Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye (Cupid, Chorus)
- Sound a Parley (Cupid, Chorus)
- Tis Love That Hath Warm'd Up (Chorus)
- Boree from the Old Bachelor
- Third Act Tune
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2. CD
- Aire
- Soft Musick
- Two Daughters of This Aged Stream (Two Syrens)
- Passacaglia I How Happy the Lover (Nymph, Solo, Sy
- In Vain Are Our Graces (Three Nymphs, Chorus)
- Fourt Act Tune: Trumpet Tune
- Ye Blustering Brethren (Aeolus)
- Symphony
- Song Tune I Round Thy Coasts (Pan, Nereid, Chorus)
- For Folded Flocks (Trio)
- Song Tune I Your Hay It is Mow's (Comus, Chorus)
- Song Tune I Fairest Isle (Venus)
- You Say, 'tis Love (She, He)
- Trumpet Tune
- Saint George, the Patron of Our Isle (Solo)
- Our Natives Not Alone Appear (Chorus)
- Grand Chance: Chaconne