Purcell / New Siberian Singers / Currentzis Didon & Aeneas CD

Alpha is now reissuing three recordings from it's back catalogue, the first album is of the conductor Teodor Currentzis. An opportunity to discover or rediscover three very different styles, and three facets of the talen tof 'the enfant terrible of classical music', as Le Figaro called him, for whom 'music is intended to transport into the waking world the sentiments we feel when we dream'. With their invitation to travel through different periods and territories, these reissues may be appreciated both separately and as a triptych revealing the artistic approach of Teodor Currentzis and his ensemble MusicAeterna, from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas to Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 by way of Mozart's Requiem, the Salzburg composer's last work, here given an invigorating reinterpretation

1. Ouverture 2. Shake the Cloud 3. Ah! Belinda 4. Grief Increases 5. When Monarchs Unite 6. Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring 7. Fear No Danger 8. See Your Royal Guest 9. Cupid Only Throws 10. If Not for Mine 11. Pursue Thy Conquest 12. To the Hills 13. Prelude for the Witches 14. Harm's Our Delight 15. The Queen of Carthage 16. Ho, Ho, Ho 17. Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun 18. Ho, Ho, Ho 19. But Ere We This Perform 20. In Our Deep Vaulted Cell 21. Echo Dance of Furies 22. Ritornelle 23. Thanks to These Lonesome Vales 24. Guitar Chacone 25. Oft She Visits 26. Behold, Upon My Bending Spear 27. Haste, Haste to Town 28. Stay, Prince 29. Prelude 30. The Sailor's Dance 31. See, See the Flags 32. Our Next Motion 33. Destruction's Our Delight 34. The Witches' Dance 35. Your Counsel 36. Great Minds 37. Thy Hand, Belinda 38. Dido's Lament 39. With Drooping Wings