PURCELL: Dido & Aeneas. GALLIARD: Pan And Syrinx (2CD)

CD 1 55’14
Henry Purcell (1659–1695) Dido and Aeneas
1 Overture (Orchestra) 2’43
Act the First
Scene: The Palace
2 Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda/Chorus) 1’15
3 Ah! Belinda, I am press’d with torment (Dido) 2’51
4 Grief increases by concealing 0’58
(Belinda/Dido/Second Woman/Chorus)
5 Whence could so much virtue spring? 1’58
(Dido/Belinda/Second Woman)
6 Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda/Second Woman/Chorus) 1’36
7 The Baske Dance (Orchestra) 0’36
8 See, your royal guest appears (Belinda/Aeneas/Dido/Chorus) 1’13
9 If not for mine, for Empire’s sake (Aeneas/Belinda/Chorus) 2’48
10 The Triumphing Dance (Orchestra) 1’17
Act the Second
Scene One: The Cave
11 Wayward sisters, you that fright 2’09
(Sorceress/First Witch/Chorus)
12 The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate 1’38
(Sorceress/Chorus/First and Second Witch)
13 But ere we this perform (First and Second Witch/Chorus) 1’40
14 Echo Dance of Furies (Orchestra) 1’09
Scene Two: The Grove
15 Ritornelle (Orchestra) 0’51
16 Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda/Chorus) 3’07
17 Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman) 1’52
18 Behold! upon my bending spear (Aeneas/Dido/Chorus) 1’22
19 Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command! (Spirit/Aeneas) 2’15
20 Then since our charms have sped (Sorceress/Chorus) 1’08
21 The Groves’ Dance (Orchestra) 0’31
Act the Third
Scene One: The Ships
22 Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor/Chorus) 1’38
23 The Sailors’ Dance (Orchestra) 0’51
24 See the flags and streamers curling 0’54
(Sorceress/First and Second Witch)
25 Our next motion (Sorceress/Chorus) 1’29
26 A Dance (Orchestra) 1’41
Scene Two
27 Your counsel all is urg’d in vain (Dido/Belinda/Aeneas/Chorus) 4’15
28 Thy hand, Belinda…When I am laid in earth (Dido) 4’16
29 With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus) 3’16
30 Cupids’ Dance (Orchestra) 2’06

Opera in three acts · Libretto: Nahum Tate
Dido: NICOLA WEMYSS
Aeneas: MATTHEW BAKER
Belinda: FRANCINE VAN DER HEIJDEN
Second Woman: PENNI CLARKE
Sorceress: HELENE RASKER
First Witch: MAAIKE POORTHUIS
Second Witch: YONG-HEE KIM
Spirit: ROWENA SIMPSON
Sailor: RICHARD ZOOK
Musica ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz

CD 2 77’09
John Ernest Galliard (1687–1749) Pan and Syrinx
1 Overture: Part 1 1’13
2 Overture: Part 2 1’56
3 Overture: Part 3 0’34
4 Overture: Part 4 (Orchestra) 1’46
5 On sunny Hills, in gloomy Shades 0’56
6 Free from Sorrow, free from Anguish (Syrinx) 4’02
7 What do I see? (Pan/Syrinx) 1’41
8 Go leave me, ’tis in vain (Syrinx) 2’43
9 How Insolently Coy! am I to be despis’d? 0’46
10 Gentle Cupid, aid my pleasure (Pan) 2’59
11 Symphony (Orchestra) 0’26
12 The rising Morn her purple Beams now sheds 0’24
13 Bid the Tunefull cornet sound 2’04
14 Yet hold: Some Ill our much-lov’d Syrinx waits (Diana) 0’17
15 Air for the Nymphs 0’54
16 Air I for the Nymphs and Sylvans 0’23
17 Air II for the Nymphs and Sylvans (Orchestra) 0’52
18 These glances Stol’n a Flame confess (Sylvan/Nymph) 0’23
19 Fairest, if thou canst be kind, Ah! (Sylvan) 2’24
20 Think’st thou that awkward mien has Charms 1’04
21 Let Nature henceforward neglect (Nymph/Sylvan) 1’36
22 A Sylvan and a Nymph Dance (Orchestra) 0’47
23 Well do these Sports become Diana’s Train (Pan) 1’00
24 Whilst your Harmony fills (Pan/Chorus) 3’05
25 How Sweet the warbling Linnet sings 4’21
26 Toil’d and Impatient have I sought you long 0’41
27 Why should Love, that triffling Passion (Syrinx) 0’44
28 Love! How impatient hast thou made me? (Pan/Syrinx) 0’36
29 Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly (Chorus/Syrinx/Pan) 1’39
30 Cruel Sylvan, O forbear (Syrinx/Pan) 2’37
31 Surprising Change! 3’16
32 But see! the Goddess comes (Pan) 0’50
33 Presumptuous God! Am I so little fear’d (Diana/Pan) 0’54
34 Lawless Rage and wild desire (Diana) 2’42
35 O mighty Goddess! To thy will I bend (Pan) 0’23
36 Dance of Nymphs and Sylvans 0’58
37 Bourrée I & II (Orchestra) 1’36
38 Great Diana will we Sing (Chorus) 1’53

Opera in one act · Libretto: Lewis Theobald
First Witch: MAAIKE POORTHUIS
Syrinx: JOHANNETTE ZOMER
Pan: MARC PANTUS
Diana: NICOLA WEMYSS
Sylvan: MITCHELL SANDLER
Nymph: RICHARD ZOOK
Musica ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz

Henry Purcell - The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus (from Timon of Athens)
39 A Symphony of pipes imitating the chirping of birds (Orchestra) 3’38
40 Hark how the Songsters of the Grove (First and Second Nymph) 1’34
41 Love in their little veins inspires (First Nymph) 1’21
42 But ah! how much are our delights more dear 1’20
(First Nymph/Second Nymph/Follower of Cupid)
43 Hence with your trifling Deity 2’13
(First, Second and Third Follower of Bacchus)
44 Come all, come all to me, make haste (Cupid) 1’09
45 Who can resist such mighty Charmes (Chorus) 1’34
46 Return revolting Rebells where d’ye goe? (Bacchus) 1’43
47 The Cares of Lovers, their Allarms (Cupid) 1’45
48 Love quickly is pall’d tho’ with Labour ’tis gain’d 1’12
(Fourth Follower of Bacchus)
49 Come let us agree (Cupid/Bacchus/Grand Chorus) 1’47

First Nymph: PAULINE GRAHAM
Second Nymph: NICOLA WEMYSS
Follower of Cupid: RENÉ STEUR
Cupid: PENNI CLARKE
Bacchus: MARC PANTUS
First Follower of Bacchus: MITCHELL SANDLER
Second Follower of Bacchus: HUGO NAESSENS
Third Follower of Bacchus: RICHARD ZOOK
Fourth Follower of Bacchus: JOOST VAN DER LINDEN
Musica ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz