Mike Fentross, La Sfera Armoniosa - Henry Purcell: Symphony while the swans come forward (2018)
Mike Fentross, La Sfera Armoniosa - Henry Purcell: Symphony while the swans come forward (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 370 Mb | Total time: 78:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC72783 | Recorded: 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 370 Mb | Total time: 78:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC72783 | Recorded: 2017
The first recording on Challenge Classics by the wonderful Dutch baroque orchestra, La Sfera Armoniosa. For its debut, La Sfera Armoniosa and its artistic director Mike Febtross have chosen orchestral music and arias from operas by Henry Purcell. Well-known baroque specialist, soprano Johannette Zomer joins the orchestra in this live recording.
La Sfera Armoniosa, founded in 1992, is a Dutch Baroque ensemble and orchestra specialized in the performance of music from the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Mike Fentross: I was really moved when I heard my orchestra play the opening bars of the Purcell. I heard a sound that was quite different to what I knew from other present-day baroque orchestras. Was this sound closer to that of Purcell's own orchestra, a sound that he may have had in mind when composing this wondrous music? In the very first chat I had about this project with Lidewij van der Voort, our new concertmaster, we talked about the modern adaptations that are often (and understandably) applied to baroque instruments nowadays, and about the possibility of going back to authentic strings (completely bare gut) and a 17th century bow hold (the French grip) for this Purcell project. As it happens, I'd had a similar conversation not long before that with Lidewei de Sterck, our principal oboist, about authentic reeds (scraped from the inside) and with Graham Nicholson, about 17th century trumpets (natural trumpets with no finger holes). These aspects, seemingly just details, have a major impact not just on the sound but also the way of playing and therefore on the way we interpret the music. We all felt the need to record this CD with these 'experimental' instruments. An orchestral sound with so much transparency and colour, a way of playing with such narrative power! I'm full of admiration for the musicians who played so beautifully and who were prepared to take up the challenge of moving away from a well-trodden path.
Performer:
Johannette Zomer, soprano
La Sfera Armoniosa
Mike Fentross, director
Tracklist:
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian, Z.627 (1690)
01. Symphony for trumpets and violins
02. First music
03. What shall I do to show how much I love her
04. Butterfly dance
05. Dance of Furies
06. Since from my dear
07. Tune for trumpets
08. Canaries
The Indian Queen, Z.630 (1695)
09. Air
10. I attempt from love’s sickness
11. Hornpipe
King Arthur, Z.628 (1691)
12. Overture
13. First act tune
14. Hornpipe
15. Fairest Isle
16. Trumpet tune
17. St. George, the patron of our Isle
18. Chaconne
The Fairy Queen, Z.629 (1692)
19. Preludio
20. Hornpipe
21. Air
22. Rondeau
23. Symphony while the swans come forward
24. If love’s a sweet passion
25. Symphony: Prelude, Canzona, Largo, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
26. Ye gentle spirits of the air
27. Dance for the followers of Night
28. See even Night herself is here
29. Air
30. Hark! The echoing Air
31. Grand Dance
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La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross, Johannette Zomer / Purcell - Symphony while the swans come forward
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Mike Fentross, La Sfera Armoniosa - Henry Purcell: Symphony while the swans come forward (2018)
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