Artist: Hekkema / Calefax / Vloeimans

Title: Dido & Aeneazz

Condition:

Format: SACD

Release Date: 2019

Label: Pentatone

UPC: 827949075865

Genre: Classical Artists

Details

1. Overture
2. Peace and I Are Strangers Grown
3. Fear No Danger; Cupid Has Thrown the Dart
4. A Splendid Time Together
5. The Triumphs of Love
6. Love Dance
7. The Witches
8. Ritornel
9. The Sailors
10. Horizon
11. Triumphant Witches
12. Crazy Witches
13. Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire
14. Dido's Lament
15. With Drooping Wings

Love is a rollercoaster, and so is this swinging new take on Virgil's classical tragedy. Dido & Aeneazz is a recomposition of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by Raaf Hekkema, combined with newly-composed music arranged by Eric Vloeimans. The album showcases the congenial collaboration between the versatile reed players of Calefax and renowned trumpet player Eric Vloeimans. Dido & Aeneazz invites the listener to join a musical journey that virtuously flows from the baroque original to jazz, calypso and klezmer, and back. Acclaimed in the Netherlands and abroad, the members of Calefax arguably invented a completely new genre: the reed quintet. After their successful PENTATONE debut with Hidden Gems, these gentlemen add yet another treasure to their discography.