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Purcell’s ever-green chamber opera Dido & Aeneas, its story drawn from Virgil’s epic, the Aeneid, is performed by the Armonico Consort with an enchanting selection of soloists, including Rachael Lloyd, Robert Davies & Elin Manahan Thomas. Armonico Consort is one of the largest and most innovative organisations of its kind in the UK, existing to inspire audiences with its unique programmes. Reviews BBC Music MagazineSeptember 2015 “This new recording, with a cast of youthful, fresh-voiced soloists and an ingenuous approach, recaptures the spirit of the first known performance in a Chelsea boarding school for ‘young gentlewomen’…Rachel Lloyd makes a graceful Dido…Christopher Monks’s fleet direction and wispy instrumental playing enhance the all-pervasive dance rhythms. Financial Times20th June 2015 “The Armonico Consort and its musical director, Christopher Monks, capture this abundance of inspiration in a performance full of life and variety…Rachael Lloyd’s dignified Dido and Elin Manahan Thomas’s bright Belinda are well contrasted. – 3 out of 5 stars Gramophone MagazineAugust 2015 “There’s a lot going for this newcomer. The scale is modest…The playing is wonderfully vital…The soloists are equally fine. Bright-toned Elin Manahan Thomas is well cast as Belinda…Roderick Morris is pleasingly unexaggerated as a countertenor Sorceress…Rachael Lloyd – lovesick, imperious, resigned – is an excellent Dido, her famous Lament no less effective for being restrained. Sunday Times24th May 2015 “This account has likeable soloists…, a fine chorus (though “Great minds” and “With drooping wings” are too slow) and a lively band. One-string-to-a-part weakens passages like the end of “Oft she visits”, but brings out Purcell’s expressive part-writing. The Guardian4th June 2015 “a fine performance should magic up a sense of epic. Christopher Monks and his Armonico Consort almost manage to. This is a clean, uncluttered account featuring crystalline voices, good diction, safe tempos and well-defined phrasing…vocal ensembles are luminous and the instrumental playing is bright and streamlined. Best of all is Rachael Lloyd’s dignified Dido, rich-voiced, poetic and flawlessly delivered. – 3 out of 5 stars The Telegraph24th May 2015 “lithe, colourful, tastefully phrased and dynamically astute playing…[the cast] sing compellingly and inhabit their roles with the same sensitivity that distinguishes the whole performance. – 4 out of 5 stars |
