Arne: Alfred From: Opera News | Date: March 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright Metropolitan Opera Guild, Incorporated Mar 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ARNE: Alfred

Brandes, Smith; Daniels, MacDougall; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, McGegan. Texts. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 75605 51314 2 (2)

For the modern listener, Thomas Arne's melodious (if not exactly engrossing) masque Alfred is stopped dead by its finale; seventy-three minutes of numbers commenting on the routing of the Danes by Alfred the Great (849-99) are concluded by, of all things, "Rule, Britannia." It's almost impossible to hear Alfred's finale as only that; the entire masque suddenly turns into an extended lead-in for one of the most widely known, seriously taken ...

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