Peter Holman, Opera Restor’d - John Frederick Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (1995)
Peter Holman, Opera Restor’d - John Frederick Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 64:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA 66759 | Recorded: 1994
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 64:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA 66759 | Recorded: 1994
Although accorded a substantial article in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the German-born composer John Frederick Lampe (1702/3-51) remains largely unknown except to connoisseurs of 18th-century English music. Yet on the evidence of this disc, such neglect is hardly deserved, since Lampe possesses a rare gift for writing genuinely comic opera. The basis for his Pyramus and Thisbe of 1745 (subtitled ‘a mock opera’) is the famous play-within-a-play sequence from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But whereas Shakespeare attempts to caricature contemporary playwrights and actors, the objects of Lampe’s ridicule are the conventions of Italian opera, not to mention the insufferable vanity of Italian opera singers. One might expect present-day audiences’ lack of familiarity with the lingua franca of Italian Baroque opera would lessen the immediacy of Lampe’s parody. Yet such is his impeccable sense of timing and rapier-like wit that any lingering doubts are banished from the very outset. Indeed, I can guarantee constant amusement, especially from the Whispering Duet, the graphic imitations of groans and moans in Wall’s Air, or the preposterous lion’s roar in ‘Ladies, don’t fright you’. It is largely thanks to Peter Holman’s stylistically apposite reconstruction of Lampe’s long-lost recitatives that a modern performance of Pyramus and Thisbe was possible, and I am happy to report that Holman’s excellent group, Opera Restor’d, turn in a brilliant yet spontaneous interpretation that succeeds in bringing the music very much to life.–Erik Levi
Performer:
Susan Bisatt, soprano
Mark Padmore, tenor
Michael Sanderson, tenor
Arwel Treharne, tenor
Andrew Knight, bass
Peter Milne, narrator
Alan McMahon, narrator
Jack Edwards, narrator
Rachel Brown, flute
Opera Restor'd
Peter Holman, conductor
Tracklist:
John Frederick Lampe (1703-1751)
Flute Concerto In G, 'the Cuckoo'
01. I. Vivace
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro
Pyramus and Thisbe
04. I. Prologue (Master / Prompter / Mr Semibrief / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman / Prologue)
05. No 02a. Overture. Allegretto – Adagio e piano
06. No 02b. Overture. Allegro
07. No 02c. Overture – Recitative. Poco presto – Affettuoso – Poco presto – Introduction (1st Gentleman / Mr Semibrief / Wall)
08. No 03. Air – Recitative. The wretched sighs and groans (Wall / 2nd Gentleman / 1st Gentleman / Mr Semibrief / Pyramus)
09. No 04. Air. And thou, O wall (Pyramus)
10. No 05. Air – Recitative. O wicked wall, through whom no bliss I see (Pyramus / 1st Gentleman / Mr Semibrief / Thisbe)
11. No 06. Air – Recitative. Fly swift, good Time, with triple speed (Thisbe / Pyramus)
12. No 07. The Whispering Duetto – Recitative. Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true (Thisbe / Pyramus)
13. No 08. Duetto – Recitative. I come / go without delay (Pyramus / Thisbe / Wall / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman / Mr Semibrief / Lion)
14. No 09. Air – Recitative. Ladies, don't fright you (Lion / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman / Mr Semibrief / Moon)
15. No 10. Air – Recitative. The man in the moon am I, sir (Moon / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman / Thisbe)
16. No 11. Air. Where is my love, my Pyre dear? (Thisbe / Lion / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman)
17. No 12. Arioso – Recitative. Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams (Pyramus)
18. No 13. Air – Recitative – Arioso. Approach, ye furies fell (Pyramus / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman / Mr Semibrief)
19. No 14. Air – Recitative. Now I am dead (Pyramus / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman / Mr Semibrief / Thisbe)
20. No 15. Air. These lily lips (Thisbe / 1st Gentleman / 2nd Gentleman / Mr Semibrief)
21. No 16. Dance – Epilogue. Gentlemen and Ladies, we've a boon to ask (Pyramus / Thisbe)
22. No 17. Duetto. Thus folding (Pyramus / Thisbe)
23. No 18. Chorus. Now, e'er you remove
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Peter Holman, Opera Restor’d - John Frederick Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (1995)
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