Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

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Label
Challenge Classics
Release Date
January 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PURCELL, HENRY
    • PERFORMER
      Milanesi, Helm, La Risonanza, Bonizzoni, La Risonanza
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2017
    • UPC
      0608917273724
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CC 72737
    • LABEL
      Challenge Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    2. Act I: Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    3. Act I: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido, Belinda, Second Woman,)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True, Raffaella Milanesi

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    4. Act I: Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True, Raffaella Milanesi

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    5. Act I: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, Second Woman and Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    6. Act I: See, see your Royal Guest appears (Belinda, Aenas)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True, Richard Helm

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    7. Act I: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Richard Helm

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    8. Act I: To the hills and the vales (Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    9. Act I: The Triumphing Dance (Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    10. Act II Scene 1: Wayward Sisters, you that fright (The Sorceress, A Witch, 2 Witches, Second woman)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Iason Marmaras, Anna Bessi, Michela Antenucci

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    11. Act II Scene 1: In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    12. Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance of Furies

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    13. Act II Scene 2: The Groves Dance

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    14. Act II Scene 2: Thanks to these lonesome Vales (Belinda)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    15. Act II Scene 2: Oft she visits this loved Mountain (Second Woman)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    16. Act II Scene 2: Behold, upon my bending spears (Aenas, Dido, Belinda)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True, Raffaella Milanesi, Richard Helm

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    17. Act II Scene 2: Stay, Prince, and hear great jove's Command (Spirit, Aeneas)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Anna Bessi, Richard Helm

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    18. Act III: The Ships

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    19. Act II Scene 1: Sailors' Dance (Sailor, Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Performer: Anna Bessi, Michela Antenucci, Iason Marmaras

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    20. Act III Scene 1: Our next motion (Sorceress)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Iason Marmaras

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    21. Act III Scene 1: Destruction's our delight (Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    22. Act III Scene 1: The Witches' Dance

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    23. Act III Scene 2: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True, Raffaella Milanesi, Richard Helm

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    24. Act III Scene 2: Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    25. Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth (Dido)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Raffaella Milanesi

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    26. Act III Scene 2: With drooping wings ye cupids come (Chorus)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    27. Symphony

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    28. Come All, Come All

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    29. Chorus. Come All, Come All

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    30. Love Alone

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Raffaella Milanesi

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    31. Love like War

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True, Iason Marmaras

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    32. Scorn, Tho beauty

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Stefanie True

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    33. To Double the Sports

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Raffaella Milanesi

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    34. To Treble the Pleasures

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: La Risonanza

      Performer: Raffaella Milanesi

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni

    35. Let Scenes of Mirth

      Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger

      Ensemble: Costanzo Porta Choir, La Risonanza

      Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni


The charm of this opera is in that it contains everything, like Cervantes’ Don Quixote: any life experience is within it. Love, hate, death, dream, despair, the innocent and the wicked play. Purcell’s awareness in portraying such opposite feelings is amazing as well as the room that he leaves to the conductor. So, here is why a new “Dido”: as an artist in love with this opera, Fabio Bonizzoni wants to deliver his reading. He wants to translate Purcell’s “sign” his own way, how much this opera is alive, lively, modern, contemporary. How Purcell’s genius was able to convey Dido’s despair and Aeneas’ cowardice and how much Purcell himself had fun in depicting the plot. Fabio Bonizzoni, one of the leading Italian harpsichordists and organists of his generation, graduated in organ, organ composition and harpsichord at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague in Ton Koopman’s class. He frequently enjoys commitments as guest conductor: in recent times he has been invited by Capella Cracoviensis and Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra in Poland, by the Holland Bach Society in The Netherlands, and by the Orchestra Barroca de Sevilla.