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John Eliot Gardiner TITLE Purcell King Arthur (2CD) tag 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 Album Tracks 1. King Arthur, Z. 628 Overture 2. King Arthur, Z. 628 Air 3. King Arthur, Z. 628 Overture to Act 1 4. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1 InchWoden, First to Thee... to Woden, Our DefenderInch (Contralto, Tenor, Bar 5. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1 InchThe Lot Is Cast, and Tanfan Pleas'dInch (Soprano) 6. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1 InchBrave Souls, to Be Renown'd in StoryInch (Chorus) 7. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1 InchI Call You All to Woden's HallInch (Countertenor, Chorus) 8. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 1 InchCome If You DareInch (Tenor, Chorus) 9. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 InchHither, This Way, This Way BendInch (Philidel, Chorus) 10. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 InchLet Not a Moonborn Elf Mislead YeInch (Grimbald) 11. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 InchHither, This Way, This Way BendInch (Chorus) 12. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 InchCome, Follow MeInch (Philidel, Sopranos, Spirits, Chorus) 13. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 InchHow Blest Are Shepherds, How Happy Their LassesInch (Shepherd, Chorus) 14. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 InchShepherd, Leave DecoyingInch (Shepherdesses) 15. King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 InchCo
