Fabio Bonizzoni / La Risonanza
Dido and Aeneas
- Type SACD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917273724
- Catalog number CC 72737
- Release date 07 October 2016
About the album
The charm of this opera is in that it contains everything, like Cervantes’ Don Quixote: any life experience is within it. Love, hate, death, dream, despair, the innocent and the wicked play. Purcell’s awareness in portraying such opposite feelings is amazing as well as the room that he leaves to the conductor. So, here is why a new “Dido”: as an artist in love with this opera, Fabio Bonizzoni wants to deliver his reading. He wants to translate Purcell’s “sign” his own way, how much this opera is alive, lively, modern, contemporary. How Purcell’s genius was able to convey Dido’s despair and Aeneas’ cowardice and how much Purcell himself had fun in depicting the plot. Fabio Bonizzoni, one of the leading Italian harpsichordists and organists of his generation, graduated in organ, organ composition and harpsichord at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague in Ton Koopman’s class. He frequently enjoys commitments as guest conductor: in recent times he has be
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11Overture
02:24 -
12Act I Shake the cloud
01:13 -
13Act I Ah! Belinda, I am prest
04:59 -
14Act I Whence could so much
02:01 -
15Act I Fear no danger
01:36 -
16Act I See, see
01:44 -
17Act I If not for mine
01:46 -
18Act I To the hills and the vales
01:01 -
19Act I The triumphing dance
01:08 -
110Act II Wayward sisters
05:43 -
111Act II In our deep vaulted cell
01:25 -
112Act II Echo dance of furies
00:52 -
113Act II The Grove
00:44 -
114Act II Thanks to these Lonesome
03:34 -
115Act II Oft she visits
02:22 -
116Act II Behold upon my bending
01:24 -
117Act II Stay prince and hear
03:30 -
118Act III The ships
01:35 -
119Act III The sailors dance
01:46 -
120Act III Our next motion
00:41 -
121Act III Destruction’s our delight
00:35 -
122Act III The witches dance
01:47 -
123Act III Your counsel all is urg’d
04:13 -
124Act III Great minds
01:47 -
125Act III When I am laid in earth
03:07 -
126Act III With drooping wings
05:32 -
127The Love of Mars and Venus Symphony
02:41 -
128The Love of Mars and Venus Come all, come all
00:51 -
129The Love of Mars and Venus Chorus. Come all, come all
01:11 -
130The Love of Mars and Venus Love alone
02:50 -
131The Love of Mars and Venus Love like war
02:32 -
132The Love of Mars and Venus Scorn tho beauty
02:20 -
133The Love of Mars and Venus To double the sports
02:06 -
134The Love of Mars and Venus To treble the pleasures
00:51 -
135The Love of Mars and Venus Let scenes of mirth
02:05