Gardiner,John Eliot Purcell: King Arthur CD

John Eliot Gardiner TITLE: Purcell: King Arthur (2CD) Label: PRX/Warner Classics/Parlophone - With it's lavish music and elaborate staging, the semi-opera King Arthur is one of the master-pieces in Purcell's works. On a text by the poet John Dryden very freely inspired from Arthurian legend and specifically devised for him, Purcell created a work of great expressive intensity which includes many of his most beautiful and well-known arias The importance of Monteverdi to John Eliot Gardiner is signalled by the fact that, when he founded a choir in 1964, it was for a performance of Monteverdi Vespers. The Monteverdi Choir went on to celebrate it's 50th anniversary in 2014 with a performance of the same work. Units Per Set: 2

1. King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture 2. King Arthur, Z. 628: Air 3. King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture to Act 1 4. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: "Woden, First to Thee... to Woden, Our Defender" (Contralto, Tenor, Bar 5. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: "The Lot Is Cast, and Tanfan Pleas'd" (Soprano) 6. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: "Brave Souls, to Be Renown'd in Story" (Chorus) 7. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: "I Call You All to Woden's Hall" (Countertenor, Chorus) 8. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1: "Come If You Dare" (Tenor, Chorus) 9. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: "Hither, This Way, This Way Bend" (Philidel, Chorus) 10. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: "Let Not a Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye" (Grimbald) 11. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: "Hither, This Way, This Way Bend" (Chorus) 12. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: "Come, Follow Me" (Philidel, Sopranos, Spirits, Chorus) 13. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: "How Blest Are Shepherds, How Happy Their Lasses" (Shepherd, Chorus) 14. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: "Shepherd, Leave Decoying" (Shepherdesses) 15. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: "Come, Shepherds, Lead Up a Lively Measure" (Chorus) 16. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Air 17. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: "What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle" (Cupid) 18. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: "What Power Art Thou" (Cold Genius) 19. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: "Thou Doting Fool, Forbear, Forbear!" (Cupid) 20. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: "Great Love, I Know Thee Now" (Cold Genius) 21. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: "No Part of My Dominion Shall Be Waste" (Cupid) 22. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: "See, See, We Assemble" (Chorus) 23. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: 'Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye... 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us" (Cupid, Cho 24. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: "Sound a Parley, Ye Fair, and Surrender" (Cupid, Cold Genius, Chorus) 25. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Hornpipe 26. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: "Two Daughters of This Aged Stream Are We" (Sirens) 27. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: "How Happy the Lover... for Love Ev'ry Creature" (Nymphs, Men, Chorus) 28. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 4: Air 29. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune No. 1 30. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: "Ye Blust'ring Brethren of the Skies" (Aeolus) 31. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Symphony 32. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: "Round Thy Coast, Fair Nymph of Britain" (Nereid, Pan, Chorus) 33. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: "For Folded Flocks, and Fruitful Plains" (Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone) 34. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: "Your Hay It Is Mow'd" (Comus, Men) 35. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: "Fairest Isle" (Venus) 36. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: "You Say 'Tis Love" (She, He) 37. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune No. 2 38. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: "ST George the Patron of Our Isle!... Our Natives Not Alone Appear" (Ho 39. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Chaconne