The Legend Continues
Summary
Just as the flowers for the Deutsche Grammophon edition symbolize the blossoming of these precious recordings in the quality they already deserved back then; the birds of the Philips Classics intensify and refine the beauty of nature with their song – at times soothing, at others forceful, or amusing, yet on the whole extremely attractive.Purcell: Dido & Aeneas Sir Colin Davis Academy of St Martin in the Fields John Alldis Choir Josephine Veasey, Helen Donath, Delia Wallis, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Gillian Knight, Thomas Allen, John Shirley-Quirk, Frank Patterson Remastered quadraphonic recording from Philips Classics dating 1970, now released on SACD [PTC 5186230] When Henry Purcell wrote his one and only opera Dido and Aeneas in the second half of the seventeenth century, there was no existing opera tradition in England.PENTATONE’s catalogue includes performances by conductors Kent Nagano, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Sir Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Jurowski, Marc Albrecht and Lawrence Foster; artists Arabella Steinbacher, Johannes Moser, Denis Kozhukhin, Joyce DiDonato, Julia Fischer, Jake Heggie, Mari Kodama, Nareh Arghamanyan, Martin Helmchen; and orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the New Dutch Academy and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.This release gives the perfect opportunity to experience the legendary ‘Stokowski’ sound.Purcell: Dido & AeneasSir Colin DavisAcademy of St Martin in the FieldsJohn Alldis ChoirJosephine Veasey, Helen Donath, Delia Wallis, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Gillian Knight, Thomas Allen, John Shirley-Quirk, Frank PattersonRemastered quadraphonic recording from Philips Classics dating 1970, now released on SACD [PTC 5186230]When Henry Purcell wrote his one and only opera Dido and Aeneas in the second half of the seventeenth century, there was no existing opera tradition in England.PENTATONE’s catalogue includes performances by conductors Kent Nagano, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Sir Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Jurowski, Marc Albrecht and Lawrence Foster; artists Arabella Steinbacher, Johannes Moser, Denis Kozhukhin, Joyce DiDonato, Julia Fischer, Jake Heggie, Mari Kodama, Nareh Arghamanyan, Martin Helmchen; and orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the New Dutch Academy and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.Online:Website: http://www.pentatonemusic.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PENTATONE/Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/PentaTone1Twitter: https://twitter.com/PENTATONEmusicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pentatonemusic/B2B Section of the WebsiteIf you haven’t done so, we would like to cordially invite you to join our press & distribution portal on our website to directly access further information such as audio files, booklets, artist biographies, extra photos and video material: http://www.pentatonemusic.com/press-distributors Contact Information PENTATONE Silvia Pietrosanti +31 35 548 07 26 www.pentatonemusic.com info@pentatonemusic.com Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from PENTATONE Promote Your Business Press Release Pricing Email this page to a friend