CDA66759 - Disc 1 Track 9 - Pyramus and Thisbe - Hyperion Records

Pyramus and Thisbe

composer

John Frederick Lampe (1702/3-1751)

1745; A Mock Opera, edited and completed by Peter Holman

author of text

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

via Richard Leveridge's 1716 Comick Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe; further abridged, possibly by Lampe

Recordings

Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe

Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

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No 01: Prologue (Master/Prompter/Mr Semibrief/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman/Prologue) Are the properties and everything ready for the performance?

Michael Sanderson (tenor), Arwel Treharne (tenor), Peter Milne (speaker), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Andrew Knight (bass)

Track 4 on CDA66759 [3'18] Archive Service Only

No 02a. Overture: Allegretto – Adagio e piano

Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 5 on CDA66759 [1'36] Archive Service Only

No 02b. Overture: Allegro

Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 6 on CDA66759 [1'28] Archive Service Only

No 02c. Overture – Recitative: Poco presto – Affettuoso – Poco presto – Introduction (1st Gentleman/Mr Semibrief/Wall) Who comes here?

Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor), Alan McMahon (speaker), Peter Milne (speaker), Michael Sanderson (tenor)

Track 7 on CDA66759 [4'23] Archive Service Only

No 03. Air – Recitative: The wretched sighs and groans (Wall/2nd Gentleman/1st Gentleman/Mr Semibrief/Pyramus)

Michael Sanderson (tenor), Jack Edwards (reader), Alan McMahon (speaker), Peter Milne (speaker), Mark Padmore (tenor), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 8 on CDA66759 [3'22] Archive Service Only

No 04. Air: And thou, O wall (Pyramus)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 9 on CDA66759 [3'20] Archive Service Only

No 05. Air – Recitative: O wicked wall, through whom no bliss I see (Pyramus/1st Gentleman/Mr Semibrief/Thisbe)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Alan McMahon (speaker), Peter Milne (speaker), Susan Bisatt (soprano), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 10 on CDA66759 [2'28] Archive Service Only

No 06. Air – Recitative: Fly swift, good Time, with triple speed (Thisbe/Pyramus)

Susan Bisatt (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 11 on CDA66759 [2'58] Archive Service Only

No 07. The Whispering Duetto – Recitative: Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true (Thisbe/Pyramus)

Susan Bisatt (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 12 on CDA66759 [2'03] Archive Service Only

No 08. Duetto – Recitative: I come/go without delay (Pyramus/Thisbe/Wall/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman/Mr Semibrief/Lion)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Susan Bisatt (soprano), Michael Sanderson (tenor), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Peter Milne (speaker), Andrew Knight (bass), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 13 on CDA66759 [3'35] Archive Service Only

No 09. Air – Recitative: Ladies, don't fright you (Lion/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman/Mr Semibrief/Moon)

Andrew Knight (bass), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Peter Milne (speaker), Arwel Treharne (tenor), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 14 on CDA66759 [4'48] Archive Service Only

No 10. Air – Recitative: The man in the moon am I, sir (Moon/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman/Thisbe)

Arwel Treharne (tenor), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Susan Bisatt (soprano), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 15 on CDA66759 [3'19] Archive Service Only

No 11. Air: Where is my love, my Pyre dear? (Thisbe/Lion/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman)

Susan Bisatt (soprano), Andrew Knight (bass), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 16 on CDA66759 [3'55] Archive Service Only

No 12. Arioso – Recitative: Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams (Pyramus)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 17 on CDA66759 [1'42] Archive Service Only

No 13. Air – Recitative – Arioso: Approach, ye furies fell (Pyramus/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman/Mr Semibrief)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Peter Milne (speaker), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 18 on CDA66759 [3'27] Archive Service Only

No 14. Air – Recitative: Now I am dead (Pyramus/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman/Mr Semibrief/Thisbe)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Peter Milne (speaker), Susan Bisatt (soprano), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 19 on CDA66759 [3'41] Archive Service Only

No 15. Air: These lily lips (Thisbe/1st Gentleman/2nd Gentleman/Mr Semibrief)

Susan Bisatt (soprano), Alan McMahon (speaker), Jack Edwards (reader), Peter Milne (speaker), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 20 on CDA66759 [3'36] Archive Service Only

No 16. Dance – Epilogue: Gentlemen and Ladies, we've a boon to ask (Pyramus/Thisbe)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Susan Bisatt (soprano), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 21 on CDA66759 [1'05] Archive Service Only

No 17. Duetto: Thus folding (Pyramus/Thisbe)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Susan Bisatt (soprano), Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 22 on CDA66759 [2'56] Archive Service Only

No 18. Chorus: Now, e'er you remove

Opera Restor'd, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 23 on CDA66759 [1'16] Archive Service Only

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Details for CDA66759 track 9

No 4, Air: And thou, O wall (Pyramus)

Artists

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Opera Restor'd

Peter Holman (conductor)

ISRC

GB-AJY-95-75909

Duration

3'20

Recording date

7 July 1994

Recording venue

St Paul's Church, New Southgate, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Martin Compton

Recording engineer

Antony Howell

Hyperion usage

Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (CDA66759)
Disc 1 Track 9
Release date: February 1995
Deletion date: December 2007
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