Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - John Eccles: The Judgment of Paris, Three Mad Songs (2009)
Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - John Eccles: The Judgment of Paris, Three Mad Songs (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 62:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0759 | Recorded: 2008
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 62:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0759 | Recorded: 2008
This "Paris" is special because it shows Eccles trying to shunt musical theater in an all-English direction, and move it out of the shadow of the dominant Italian and French traditions. As Lindsay Kemp points out in verbose but thorough liner notes, the word settings, or underlay is for English speech rhythms and the score focuses more on line and melody that decoration and ornamentation. This is a Maske, so it feels much more like music from a play than an opera. The score is a theatrical and musical treat, lived up to in this vibrant and energized performance, conducted by Christian Curnyn and sung by the Early Opera Company. The soloists are well cast, lucid and each of them really grasp the difference between this and opera. The Three Mad Songs that end the program are just that, set pieces from various English plays where the heroin loses it, usually because a man has done her wrong. One song each is given to our Paris soloists, Lucy Crowe, Claire Booth and Susan Bickley, so Curnyn presents the listener with a latter day "Judgment," with us playing Paris. I'm awarding the apple to Ms. Crowe for her rendition of "Restless in Thought…" from "She Ventures, and He Wins.– Hugo Munday
Performer:
The Judgment of Paris:
Mercury - Roderick Williams, baritone
Paris - Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Juno - Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano
Pallas - Claire Booth, soprano
Venus - Lucy Crowe, soprano
Chorus of Early Opera Company
Three Mad Songs:
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Claire Booth, soprano
Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano
Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn, conductor
Tracklist:
John Eccles (1668-1735)
The Judgment of Paris:
01. Symphony for Mercury: [-]
02. Symphony for Mercury: [-]
03. Symphony for Mercury: Slow -
04. Symphony for Mercury: Brisk
05. From high Olympus, and the Realms above (Mercury, Paris)
06. O Ravishing Delight! (Paris)
07. Fear not, Mortal: none shall harm thee (Mercury)
08. Happy thou of Human Race (Mercury, Paris)
09. Symphony for Juno: Saturnia, Wife of Thundring Jove, am I (Juno)
10. Symphony for Pallas: This way, Mortal, bend thy Eyes (Pallas)
11. Symphony for Venus: Hither turn thee, garde Swain (Venus)
12. Hither turn thee, gentle Swain (Venus, Pallas, Juno)
13. Distracted I turn, but I cannot decide (Paris) - Apart let me view then each heav'nly Fair (Paris)
14. Symphony: Let Ambition fire thy Mind (Juno)
15. Awake, awake, thy Spirits raise (Pallas) - Symphony
16. Hark, hark! the glorious Voice of War (Pallas) - Symphony
17. Oh what Joys does Conquest yield! (Pallas)
18. O how glorious 'tis to see (Chorus)
19. Symphony
20. Stay, lovely Youth, delay thy Choice (Venus) - Far from thee be anxious Care (Venus, Chorus)
21. Nature fram'd thee sure for Loving (Venus) - Fairest she, all Nymphs transcending (Venus)
22. I yield, I yield, O take the Prize (Paris)
23. Hither all ye Graces, all ye Loves (Grand Chorus)
Three Mad Songs:
24.'Restless in Tought disturb'd in Mind'
25.'Love's but the frailty of the Mind'
26.'I Burn, I burn, my Brain consumes to Ashes'
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Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - John Eccles: The Judgment of Paris, Three Mad Songs (2009)
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