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Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas & Music for The Gordian Knot Unty'd (1994) Music
Posted by ArlegZ at Oct. 26, 2019
Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas & Music for The Gordian Knot Unty'd (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 265 Mb | Total time: 60:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907110 | Recorded: 1993
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 265 Mb | Total time: 60:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907110 | Recorded: 1993
HENRY PURCELL'S chamber opera, "Dido and Aeneas," is plentifully represented on disk, but Nicholas McGegan's new recording, with the Philharmonia Baroque and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge is the freshest and most compelling since Andrew Parrott's magnificent account of 1981 (on Chandos). Mr. McGegan's soloists – Lorraine Hunt as Dido, Lisa Saffer as Belinda and Michael Dean as Aeneas – work wonders with the concise characterizations provided by Purcell and his librettist, Nahum Tate.