Dido and Aeneas discography

This is a discography of Dido and Aeneas, an opera by Henry Purcell. The first known performance was at Josias Priest's girls' school in London in the spring of 1689.

Recordings

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Year Cast:
Dido, Belinda
Aeneas, Sorceress
Conductor,
opera house and orchestra
Label
1935 Nancy Evans
Mary Hamlin
Roy Henderson
Mary Jarred
Clarence Raybould
Boyd Neel String orchestra
Charles Kennedy Scott's A Capella singers
Decca
Cat: X 101-107 (shellac 78s)[1]
1945 Joan Hammond
Isobel Baillie
Dennis Noble
Edith Coates
Constant Lambert
Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus
Opera d'Oro
Cat: OPD-1220
1951 Eleanor Houston
Adele Leigh
Henry Cummings
Evelyn Cuthill
Jackson Gregory
Stuart Chamber Orchestra and Chorus of London
Period
Cat: SPLP 546 (LP)
Irma Kolassi
Gisèle Vivarelli
Yvon le Marc'Hadour
Marguerite Pifteau
Pierre Capdevielle
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Geneva Conservatoire chorus
Cascavelle
Cat: VEL 3107
Kirsten Flagstad
Maggie Teyte
Thomas Hemsley
Edith Coates
Geraint Jones
Mermaid orchestra and chorus
Walhall
Cat: WLCD0186
1952 Kirsten Flagstad
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Thomas Hemsley
Arda Mandikian
Geraint Jones
Mermaid orchestra and chorus
EMI
Cat: CDH7610062
1955 Martha Mödl
Dora Lindgreen
Hermann Prey
Gusta Hammer
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
NWDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg
Chor des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg
UraCant
Cat: 2008
1959 Claire Watson
Jeannette Sinclair
Peter Pears
Arda Mandikian
Benjamin Britten
English Opera Group orchestra
Purcell Singers
BBC Music
Cat: BBCB 8003-2
1960 Teresa Berganza
Hanny Steffek
Gérard Souzay
Jane Berbié
Pierre Dervaux
Orchestra and Chorus of the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Walhall
Cat: WLCD0326
1961 Janet Baker
Patricia Clark
Raimund Herincx
Monica Sinclair
Anthony Lewis
English Chamber Orchestra
St. Anthony Singers
Decca
Cat: 4663872
1963 Mary Thomas
Honor Sheppard
Maurice Bevan
Helen Watts
Alfred Deller
Oriana orchestra and chorus
Vanguard
Cat: 3003332
1965 Victoria de los Ángeles
Heather Harper
Peter Glossop
Patricia Johnson
John Barbirolli
English Chamber Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers
EMI
Cat: CDM 5 65664 2
1967 Tatiana Troyanos
Sheila Armstrong
Barry McDaniel
Patricia Johnson
Charles Mackerras
Chamber orchestra of the North German Radio
Monteverdi Chor
Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 447 148-2
1970 Josephine Veasey
Helen Donath
John Shirley-Quirk
Elizabeth Bainbridge
Colin Davis
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
John Alldis Choir
Philips
Cat: 4428334 (CD)
Pentatone
Cat: 827949023064 (SACD)
1971 Shirley Verrett
Helen Donath
Dan Iordăchescu
Oralia Domínguez
Raymond Leppard
Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI Torino
Ambrosian Singers
Arkadia
Cat: 619
1975 Janet Baker[2]
Norma Burrowes
Peter Pears
Anna Reynolds
Steuart Bedford
Aldeburgh Festival strings orchestra
London Opera chorus
Decca
Cat: 468 561-2
1977 Tatiana Troyanos[3]
Felicity Palmer
Richard Stilwell
Alfreda Hodgson
Raymond Leppard
English Chamber Orchestra
English Chamber chorus
Erato
Cat: 2292-45263-2
1979 D'Anna Fortunato
Nancy Armstrong
Mark Baker
Bruce Fithian
Joël Cohen
Boston Camerata
LP: Harmonia Mundi
Cat: HM 10.067
1981 Emma Kirkby
Judith Nelson
David Thomas
Jantina Noorman
Andrew Parrott
Taverner Consort and Players
Chandos
Cat: CHAN 8306
1982 Ann Murray
Rachel Yakar
Anton Scharinger
Trudeliese Schmidt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Concentus Musicus Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Teldec
Cat: 4509-93686-2
1985 Guillemette Laurens
Jill Feldman
Philippe Cantor
Dominique Visse
William Christie
Les Arts Florissants
Harmonia Mundi
Cat: HMC 905173
Teresa Berganza
Danielle Borst
Per-Arne Wahlgren
Glenys Linos
Michel Corboz
Ensemble instrumental de Lausanne
Lausanne City Opera chorus
Erato
Cat: 2292-45263-2
Jessye Norman
Marie McLaughlin
Thomas Allen
Patricia Kern
Raymond Leppard
English Chamber Orchestra
Philips
Cat: 416 299-2
1988 Anne Sofie von Otter
Lynne Dawson
Stephen Varcoe
Nigel Rogers
Trevor Pinnock
The English Concert
Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 427 624-1
1989 Della Jones
Donna Deam
Peter Harvey
Susan Bickley
Ivor Bolton
St. James’s Baroque Players and chorus
Teldec
Cat: 4509-91191-2
Rachel Ann Morgan
Camille van Lunen
David Barick
Myra Kroese
Roderick Shaw
Academy of the Begynhof Amsterdam
Globe
Cat: 5020
1990 Carolyn Watkinson
Ruth Holton
George Mosley
Teresa Shaw
John Eliot Gardiner
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
Philips
Cat: 432 114-2
1992 Catherine Bott
Emma Kirkby
John Mark Ainsley
David Thomas
Christopher Hogwood
Academy of Ancient Music
Decca
Cat: 475 7195
1993 Lorraine Hunt
Lisa Saffer
Michael Dean
Ellen Rabiner
Nicholas McGegan
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Clare College, Cambridge chorus
Harmonia Mundi
Cat: HMU 907110
1994 Emily Van Evera
Ben Parry
Janet Lax
Haden Andrews
Andrew Parrott[4]
Taverner Consort and Players
BBC Music Magazine
Cat: BBC MM129
Sony Classical, Cat: SK 62993
Avie, Cat:AV2309
Kym Amps
Anna Crookes
David van Asch
Sarah Connolly
David van Asch
The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
Naxos
Cat: 8.553108
Véronique Gens
Sophie Marin-Degor
Nathan Berg
Claire Brua
William Christie[5]
Les Arts Florissants
Erato
Cat: 4509-98477-2
1995 Jennifer Lane
Cassandra Hoffman
Michael Brown
Desiree Halac
Bradley Brookshire
I Musici di San Cassiano
Vox
Cat: 7518
Maria Ewing
Rebecca Evans
Karl Daymond
Sally Burgess
Richard Hickox
Collegium Musicum 90
Chandos
Cat: CHAN 0586
Jennifer Lane
Ann Monoyios
Russell Braun
Jennifer Lane
Jeanne Lamon
Tafelmusik
CBC Records
Cat: SMCD 5147
1996 Nancy Maultsby
Susannah Waters
Russell Braun
Laura Tucker
Martin Pearlman
Boston Baroque
Telarc
Cat: 80424
1998 Lynne Dawson
Rosemary Joshua
Gerald Finley
Susan Bickley
René Jacobs
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Harmonia Mundi
Cat: HMX 2991683
2000 Laura Pudwell
Salomé Haller
Peter Harvey
Laura Pudwell
Hervé Niquet
Le Concert Spirituel
Glossa
Cat: GCD 921601
2002 Evelyn Tubb
Julia Matthews
Thomas Meglioranza
Evelyn Tubb
Predrag Gosta
New Trinity Baroque
Edition Lilac
Cat: 200204-2
2003 Susan Graham
Camilla Tilling
Ian Bostridge
Felicity Palmer
Emmanuelle Haïm
Le Concert d'Astrée
European Voices
Virgin Veritas
Cat: 5 45605 2
2004 Nicola Wemyss
Francine van der Heijden
Matthew Baker
Helen Rasker
Jed Wentz
Musica ad Rhenum
Brilliant
Cat: 92464
2007 Julianne Baird
Andrea Lauren Brown
Timothy Bentch
Tatyana Rashkovsky
Valentin Radu
Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble
Lyrichord
Cat: LEMS 8057
2008 Sarah Connolly
Lucy Crowe
Gerald Finley
Patricia Bardon
Steven Devine and Elizabeth Kenny
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Choir of the Enlightenment
Chandos
Cat: CHAN 0757
Simone Kermes
Deborah York
Dimitris Tiliakos
Oleg Ryabets
Teodor Currentzis
MusicAeterna
The New Siberian Singers
Alpha
Cat: 140
2009 Solenn' Lavanant Linke
Yeree Suh
Alejandro Meerapfel
Fabian Schofrin
Leonardo García Alarcón
Cappella Mediterranea
La Nouvelle Menestrandie
Ambronay
Cat: AMY022
2010 Malena Ernman
Judith Van Wanroij
Christopher Maltman
Hilary Summers
William Christie
Les Arts Florissants
FRA Musica
Cat: FRA001 (DVD) & FRA501 (Blu-ray)
2014 Rachael Lloyd
Elin Manahan Thomas
Robert Davies
Roderick Morris
Christopher Monks
Armonico Consort
signum
Cat: SIGCD417

Critical attention

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In Opera on Record, ed. Alan Blyth (Hutchinson & Co./Beaufort Books, Inc., 1983), Graham Sheffield (pp. 11–25) was one of the first authors to supply a comparative discography, praising, for period authenticity, the recordings by Cohen (1978) and Parrott (1981). He found flaws in nearly every recording, but also particular assets, e.g. Roy Henderson in the 1935 recording, Isobel Baillie in 1945, the conducting of Geraint Jones in 1951, several aspects of Lewis's 1961 recording, Peter Glossop in 1965, Mackerras' theatrical instinct in 1967, and Colin Davis' "immense vitality and musicianship" in 1970; apart from Veasey's Dido, he finds sufficient quality in all the vocal contributions to recommend this last as the most important 'non-period' recording.

The Haïm recording (2004 in US) received a highly complimentary review from Allan Kozinn, saying it surpassed Parrott's 1981 production, the latter "[u]ntil now, the best". Kozinn noted orchestration and vocal range innovations by Haïm, as well as strong major and minor cast members.[6]

References

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Notes

  1. ^ The first full recording, see R.D. Darrell, The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music (New York 1936), 371.
  2. ^ Baker's second recording
  3. ^ Troyanos's second studio recording
  4. ^ Parrott's second recording
  5. ^ Christie's second recording
  6. ^ Kozinn, Allan, "Music; Poor Dido Finally Gets a Real Man", The New York Times, March 7, 2004. Retrieved 2011-07-26.

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