Henry Purcell: "Now the Night" (Andreas Scholl & Philippe Jaroussky)

Henry Purcell (1659?-1695)
"Now the Night" from The Fairy Queen

Philippe Jaroussky/Andreas Scholl & Ensemble Artaserse:

Alessandro Tampieri, Raúl Orellana - violins
Marco Massera - viola
Luis Beduschi, Margret Görner - flutes
Jean-Marc Philippe, Clémentine Humeau - oboes
Christine Plubeau - viola da gamba
Richard Myron - bass viola da gamba
Claire Antonini - theorbo
Marco Horvat - theorbo/guitar
Yoko Nakamura - harpsichord

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées 11 december 2010


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Now the Night is chac'd away,
All salute the rising Sun;
'Tis that happy, happy Day,
The Birth-Day of King Oberon.
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broadcast on France Musique 3.01.2011

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[TheRosamunda1]

@jekabsR Brussels.Diciembre 9, 2010. Purcell. Scholl and Jaroussky only. No choirs

[jekabsR]

@TheRosamunda1 The Paris concert was on the 11th. Perhaps you mean the 9th?

[TheRosamunda1]

@jekabsR

Sorry. I was referring to the concert of Brussels, December 11, 2010, but I believe that exactly in concert of Paris. At the end of this concert, they gave three encores, 1 ª. " Cold genius " (Scholl), 2 ª: " See even nigth " (PJ), 3 ª: " Now thw nigth " (Scholl and PJ). The latter the two sang it alternating his voices of counter

tenors with his natural voices of baritones, but there was no choir, they sang only Scholl and PJ alone. I have the complete recording, with encores.

[jekabsR]

@TheRosamunda1 Yes, thanks for that observation. The recording you can listen to here is the first performance during the concert.

What I am referring to is an encore performance during the same concert which did in fact have the ensemble joining in. To my knowledge that encore was not recorded. However, sjuli17 was there I assume (as was I), so he/she would have known what I was referring to.

[TheRosamunda1]

@jekabsR

There is no choir that there sings the bis of this piece, they are the own cantates those who play with his natural voice of baritones, first Scholl and later Jaroussky. Brilliant and enterteining end.

[jekabsR]

@sjuli17

And I particularly enjoyed the fourth encore, when the entire ensemble joined in singing.

A fun and light-hearted finish.

[FarnaceVISTA]

Awesome et jazzy!

[sjuli17]

Wasn't it a great moment of the concert, when - after the increasing darkness of the pieces before - they finally announced: now the night is chased away? Cathartic, even...

[allmadellalmamia]

Merci pour uploading . C'est merveilleuse

[mradaChris]

Very lovely!