Don Quixote - The Musical

Don Quixote - The Musical
The Consort of Musicke / The City Waites / The Purcell Simfony - Anthony Rooley, dir.
Muscia Oscura 070973-2 [2 CD]

Contents:

    Act One
    John Eccles
  1. Fanfare

    2. Anon.
  2. Overture

    3. Anon.
  3. Knighting music

    4. Henry Purcell
  4. Sing all ye muses

    5. Anon.
  5. Knighting music

    6. John Eccles
  6. Funeral entrance music

    7. John Eccles
  7. Young Chrysostom

    8. John Eccles
  8. The Dirge

    9. Anon.
  9. The Barber's song

    10. Henry Purcell
  10. When the world first knew creation

    11. Henry Purcell
  11. Let the dreadful engines

    12. John Eccles
  12. 'Twas early one morning

    13. Henry Purcell
  13. With this sacred charming want

    14. Pastoral Suite - J. Lenton
  14. Overture
  15. Slow
  16. Hornpipe
  17. Scotch air
  18. Slow
  19. Gavotte
    Act Two
    J. Lenton
  1. Slow pastoral

    2. J. Stanley
  2. Artful shepherds

    3. Anon.
  3. If you will love me

    4. John Eccles
  4. Ye nymphs & sylvan gods

    5. Colonel Pack
  5. Damon, let a friend

    6. Henry Purcell
  6. Riding through the whistling air

    7. T. Tollett
  7. Hornpipe

    8. Henry Purcell
  8. Lads and lasses

    9. Mr. Orme
  9. Masque overture

    10. R. Courtville
  10. Vertumnus Flora

    11. R. Courtville
  11. Here is Hymen

    12. R. Courtville
  12. Cease Hymen, cease

    13. B. Compton
  13. Happy mortals

    14. Anon.
  14. Come tell what befell

    15. Anon.
  15. The old wife

    16. Anon.
  16. Theresa was a sweet

    17. Anon.
  17. Marcella's distraught narrative

    18. John Eccles
  18. I burn, I burn

    19. Anon.
  19. You can never trust a Frenchman

    20. Henry Purcell
  20. Genius of England

    21. Henry Purcell
  21. From rosy bowers

    22. T. Tollet
  22. Puppet overture

    23. Anon.
  23. Sweetheart, my passion

    24. Henry Purcell
  24. Now sleep my knight

    25. Henry Purcell
  25. While thus we bow

Playing time: 128'12"

Performer: The Consort of Musicke - Anthony Rooley, dir.
[Emma Kirkby (soprano), Evelyn Tubb (soprano), Joseph Cornwell (tenor), Andrew King (tenor), Simon Grant (bass), David Thomas (bass), Roy Hudd (baritone), Andrew Hoskins (trumpet), Mark Hoskins (trumpet), Janos Keszei (kettle drums), Piers Adams (recorder), Pamela Thorby (recorder), Alan Wilson (organ & harpsichord), Michael Fields (lute & theorbo)];
The City Waites: [Lucie Skeaping (soprano & violin), Doug Wooton (tenor & cittern), Roddy Skeaping (bass viol/violin/voice), Robin Jeffrey) cittern/guitar/voice), Mike Brain (bassoon & voice)];
The Purcell Simfony [Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Cathy Weiss (violin), Katherine McGillivray (viola), Richard Boothby (bass viol), Susannah Heinrich (bass viol), Alison Crum (violone), James Johnson (harpsichord)];
Speaking Characters: Paul Scofield (Don Quixote), Roy Hudd (Sancho Panza), Roger Allam (Betterton), Jilly Bond (housekeeper), Peter Czajkowski (Carrasco), Sam Dastor (The Duke), Douglas Hodge (Purcell), Kristin Milward (hostess), Ian Masters (Carrier), Michael Tudor Barnes (host), Bill Wallis (Dufrey), Derek Waring (Slave), Peter Woodward (Ambrosio)

Recording site and date: BBC Maida Vale studios; March/April 1995

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