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The Early Music Show: Purcell's The Fairy Queen

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Purcell's The Fairy Queen

07/05/2011

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Purcell's The Fairy Queen

Lucie Skeaping explores Purcell's semi-opera, The Fairy Queen.

Lucie Skeaping explores Purcell's semi-opera, The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. With excerpts from each of the masques from various recordings.

Lucie Skeaping presents a programme exploring Purcell's semi-opera, The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare's original text, and instead added self-contained masques in each of the acts, which include some of Purcell's finest music. Lucie plays musical extracts from each of the masques from various recordings, directed by Ton Koopman, Roger Norrington, Harry Christophers and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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