The Berlin Philharmonic: The Digital Concert Hall

Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel and Purcell

Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm

Soloists: Lucy Crowe, Florian Sempey

Henry Purcell
Suite from The Fairy Queen

Georg Friedrich Händel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

Georg Friedrich Händel
Apollo e Dafne, Cantata for Soprano, Bass, Flute, Oboe, Strings and Continuo, HWV 122
Lucy Crowe soprano
Florian Sempey baritone

The Fairy-Queen (1692) is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular". The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare's text to music; instead he composed music for short masques in every act but the first. The concert continues with two works by Georg Friedrich Händel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351, a suite for wind instruments, and Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122, a secular cantata composed in 1709–10.
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