Charles Medlam, London Baroque - John Blow: Venus & Adonis (1988)
Charles Medlam, London Baroque - John Blow: Venus & Adonis (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 208 Mb | Total time: 49:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901276 | Recorded: 1987
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 208 Mb | Total time: 49:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901276 | Recorded: 1987
John Blow’s opera, Venus and Adonis , explores and exploits the themes of power play, manipulation, and yearning. Venus’s reluctance to surrender coupled with Adonis’s innocence leads to both a tragic accident and poignant transcendence. The work was the first to have been written by a female librettist, Anne Finch.
Blow’s reinterpretation of the myth features sensual English baroque music and scenes of love, desire and playful pageantry of cupids. Controversially categorized by some scholars as the first English baroque opera, this piece inspired legendary later works including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Performer:
Cupid - Nancy Argenta, soprano
Venus - Lynne Dawson, soprano
Adonis - Stephen Varcoe, bass
Shepherdess - Emily Van Evera, soprano
Shepherd - John Mark Ainsley, spoken voice
Shepherd - Charles Daniel, tenor
Shepherd - Gordon Jones, bass
Huntsman - Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor
London Baroque
Charles Medlam, conductor
Track List:
01. Overture
02. "Behold my arrows", "Come shepherds all", "Courtiers there is no faith in you"
03. "In these sweet groves"
04. Cupid's Entry
05. Act Tune (Tune for the flutes)
06. "Venus!", "Hark, hark"
07. "Come, follow the noblest game", ""Lachne has fast'ned first"
08. Entry - A dance by a Huntsman
09. The Act Tune
10. "You place with such delightful care"
11. A Dance of Cupids
12. "Call the Graces", "Mortals below"
13. The Graces dance - Gavott - Saraband for the Graces - A Ground
14. Act Tune
15. "Adonis, uncall'd for sighs"
16. "With solemn pomp"
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Charles Medlam, London Baroque - John Blow: Venus & Adonis (1988)
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