Recommended recordings
PURCELL: The Fairy Queen
Reviewer: Simon Heighes
Broadcast: 24th September 2011
DVD choice
- PURCELL: The Fairy Queen
Lucy Crowe (Juno/Mystery), Claire Debono (Spring/First Fairy), Anna Devin (Second Fairy), Helen-Jane Howells (Eve), Carolyn Sampson (Night), Robert Burt (Mopsa), Sean Clayton (Summer), Ed Lyon (Secrecy/Adam), Adrian Ward (Autumn), Lukas Kargl (Phœbus), Desmond Barrit (Drunken Poet), Andrew Foster-Williams (Winter/Sleep/Coridon/Hymen), Sally Dexter (Titania), Joseph Millson (Oberon), Desmond Barrit (Bottom), Susannah Wise (Hermia), Oliver Le Suer (Demetrius), Oliver Kieran Jones (Lysander), Jotham Annan (Puck), The Glyndebourne Chorus Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor), Jonathan Kent (stage director)
Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera House on 17th & 19th July 2009
BBC OPUS ARTE OA1031D (2 DVD) and OABD7065D (Blu-ray)
CD choice
- PURCELL: The Fairy Queen
Gillian Fisher, Lorna Anderson, Ann Murray, Michael Chance, Ian Partridge, John Mark Ainsley, Michael George, Richard Suart, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO 16005 (2 CD, mid-price)
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Reviewer: Jeremy Summerly
Broadcast: 21st March 2009
- Catherine Bott (Dido), Emma Kirkby (Belinda), John Mark Ainsley (Aeneas), David Thomas (Sorceress), Elizabeth Priday (First Witch), Sara Stowe (Second Witch), Julianne Baird (Second Woman), Daniel Lochmann (First Sailor), Michael Chance (Spirit), Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
Decca 4757195 (CD, Mid Price)
