{"product_id":"john-eliot-gardiner-purcell-king-arthur-cd","title":"John Eliot Gardiner - Purcell: King Arthur (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eJohn Eliot Gardiner TITLE: Purcell: King Arthur (2CD) Label: PRX\/Warner Classics\/Parlophone - With it's lavish music and elaborate staging, the semi-opera King Arthur is one of the master-pieces in Purcell's works. On a text by the poet John Dryden very freely inspired from Arthurian legend and specifically devised for him, Purcell created a work of great expressive intensity which includes many of his most beautiful and well-known arias The importance of Monteverdi to John Eliot Gardiner is signalled by the fact that, when he founded a choir in 1964, it was for a performance of Monteverdi Vespers. The Monteverdi Choir went on to celebrate it's 50th anniversary in 2014 with a performance of the same work. Units Per Set: 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKing Arthur Z. 628: Overture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628: Air\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628: Overture to Act 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 1: \"Woden First to Thee... to Woden Our Defender\" (Contralto Tenor Bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 1: \"The Lot Is Cast and Tanfan Pleas'd\" (Soprano)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 1: \"Brave Souls to Be Renown'd in Story\" (Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 1: \"I Call You All to Woden's Hall\" (Countertenor Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 1: \"Come If You Dare\" (Tenor Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: \"Hither This Way This Way Bend\" (Philidel Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: \"Let Not a Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye\" (Grimbald)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: \"Hither This Way This Way Bend\" (Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: \"Come Follow Me\" (Philidel Sopranos Spirits Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: \"How Blest Are Shepherds How Happy Their Lasses\" (Shepherd Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: \"Shepherd Leave Decoying\" (Shepherdesses)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: \"Come Shepherds Lead Up a Lively Measure\" (Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 2: Air\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: \"What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle\" (Cupid)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: \"What Power Art Thou\" (Cold Genius)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: \"Thou Doting Fool Forbear Forbear!\" (Cupid)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: \"Great Love I Know Thee Now\" (Cold Genius)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: \"No Part of My Dominion Shall Be Waste\" (Cupid)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: \"See See We Assemble\" (Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: 'Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye... 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us\" (Cupid Cho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: \"Sound a Parley Ye Fair and Surrender\" (Cupid Cold Genius Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 3: Hornpipe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 4: \"Two Daughters of This Aged Stream Are We\" (Sirens)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 4: \"How Happy the Lover... for Love Ev'ry Creature\" (Nymphs Men Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 4: Air\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: Trumpet Tune No. 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: \"Ye Blust'ring Brethren of the Skies\" (Aeolus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: Symphony\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: \"Round Thy Coast Fair Nymph of Britain\" (Nereid Pan Chorus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: \"For Folded Flocks and Fruitful Plains\" (Countertenor Tenor Baritone)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: \"Your Hay It Is Mow'd\" (Comus Men)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: \"Fairest Isle\" (Venus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: \"You Say 'Tis Love\" (She He)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: Trumpet Tune No. 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e King Arthur Z. 628 Act 5: \"ST George the Patron of Our Isle!... 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