Prom 26: Late Night Serpent and Fire – 2.08.18

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 20576

    Prom 26: Late Night Serpent and Fire – 2.08.18

    22:15
    Royal Albert Hall

    Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (excerpts)
    Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
    Henry Purcell: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
    Christoph Graupner: Dido, Queen of Carthage (excerpts)
    Antonio Sartorio: Julius Caesar in Egypt (excerpts)
    Matthew Locke: The Tempest – Curtain Tune
    George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar in Egypt – ‘Che sento? Oh Dio! … Se pietà di me non senti’
    Dario Castello: Sonata No. 15 in D minor
    Francesco Cavalli: Dido – 'Rè de' Getuli altero … Il mio marito'
    Johann Adolf Hasse: Mark Antony and Cleopatra – ‘Morte col fiero aspetto’
    George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in C minor, Op. 6 No. 8

    Anna Prohaska soprano
    Il Giardino Armonico
    Giovanni Antonini conductor


    Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska joins Italy's leading early music ensemble for a programme that takes inspiration from two great queens, Cleopatra and Dido, who proved endlessly fascinating to Baroque composers. Operatic arias are framed by some of the period's most vital instrumental works.
    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 28-07-18, 11:02.
  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20576

    #2
    Much of this is new to me.

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    • doversoul1
      Ex Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 7132

      #3
      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      Much of this is new to me.
      More details and samplers.
      Serpent & Fire. Alpha: ALPHA250. Buy CD or download online. Anna Prohaska (soprano) Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
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        • Nov 2010
        • 20576

        #4
        Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post
        Many thanks. Just what the doctor ordered.

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        • LMcD
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          • Sep 2017
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          #5
          Can somebody please explain the significance of 'Serpent and Fire'?

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #6
            Originally posted by LMcD View Post
            Can somebody please explain the significance of 'Serpent and Fire'?
            Presumably referring to the fates of the two Queens featured - Cleopatra for the Serpent, and (contrary to Purcell/Tate's "laid in earth") Dido for the fire?

            <diDoh!> except that in Cavalli's opera, she meets someone else after Aeneas' heinous behaviour and she goes off to live happily ever after!
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • doversoul1
              Ex Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 7132

              #7
              Bump.
              Tonight 10.15 pm

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              • BBMmk2
                Late Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 20908

                #8
                What a great Prom this should be!
                Don’t cry for me
                I go where music was born

                J S Bach 1685-1750

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                • CallMePaul
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                  • Jan 2014
                  • 808

                  #9
                  Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
                  What a great Prom this should be!
                  I for another am looking forward to this! I always enjoy the byways of Baroque vocal music.

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                  • edashtav
                    Full Member
                    • Jul 2012
                    • 3673

                    #10
                    Superlatives are insufficient...

                    Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
                    What a great Prom this should be!
                    It was. To mangle the conductors words: it was an efficient, effective concert of marvellously affective baroque music. Anna Prohaska was in stunnining form and Antonioni had polished Il Giardino Armonico’s playing so that it sparkled like a Rolls Royce prepared not for one but two Queens. My stand-out concert of what is a very fine Proms season. Unforgettable, it will be an unforgotten occasion.

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      #11
                      Originally posted by edashtav View Post
                      It was. To mangle the conductors words: it was an efficient, effective concert of marvellously affective baroque music. Anna Prohaska was in stunnining form and Antonioni had polished Il Giardino Armonico’s playing so that it sparkled like a Rolls Royce prepared not for one but two Queens. My stand-out concert of what is a very fine Proms season. Unforgettable, it will be an unforgotten occasion.
                      Very much agree with you edash! Need to listen again.
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • doversoul1
                        Ex Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 7132

                        #12
                        The sort of a concert that makes me grin from ear to ear while I listen. Most enjoyable. I see what it means when people say the RAH being cavernous. Hasn’t HIPP come a very long way!?

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                        • bluestateprommer
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3024

                          #13
                          Originally posted by BBMmk2 View Post
                          What a great Prom this should be!
                          Indeed it was, over iPlayer (and no doubt in the RAH for those lucky to be there), which I caught just before the 30-day deadline. Absolutely splendid concert, wonderful work all around from AP, GA and Il Giardino Armonico.

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