Purcell - Dido & Aeneas | Naxos - Historical 8111264

Purcell - Dido & Aeneas

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111264

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 30th July 2007

Contents

Artists

Kirsten Flagstad
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Eilidh Mcnab
Arda Mandikian
Sheila Rex
Anna Pollak
Thomas Hemsley
David Lloyd
The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra

Conductor

Geraint Jones

Works

Purcell, Henry

Dido and Aeneas

Artists

Kirsten Flagstad
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Eilidh Mcnab
Arda Mandikian
Sheila Rex
Anna Pollak
Thomas Hemsley
David Lloyd
The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra

Conductor

Geraint Jones

About

This recording of Dido and Aeneas, made 10 years before Flagstad’s death, was to be the Norwegian soprano’s last operatic role the following year. 
 
When the recording first appeared in January 1953, The Gramophone commented: “At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido”. The reviewer found “Madame Flagstad in splendid voice and her tone is most perfectly controlled”. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was deemed “a vivacious Belinda”, Arda Mandikian’s Sorceress “sufficiently spiteful” and Thomas Hemsley “a dignified and slightly diffident Aeneas, but I imagine Dido gave him a strong inferiority complex”. 
 
Geraint Jones, who enjoyed a highly successful career as an organist, harpsichordist, conductor and recording producer, was praised for his “musicianly playing and a lack of that lumpy rhythm that is fatal in Purcell’s music”.
 
Recorded 15th, 27th-28th March, 1952 in Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London.

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