Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson – Pepusch: Venus and Adonis (2016) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson – Pepusch: Venus and Adonis (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:24:41 minutes | 942 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Ramée

Johann Christoph Pepusch’s English-language masque Venus and Adonis premiered at London’s Theatre Royal on 12 March 1715. Inspired by the operas of composers like Giovanni Battista Bononcini and Alessandro Scarlatti, it was the most substantial effort of the period to ‘reconcile Musick to the English Tongue.’ As part of the battle for supremacy amongst London’s theatres, Pepusch recruited ‘a select Band of the best Masters of Instrumental Musick’ and two of the city’s leading singers, the ‘Italian lady’ Margarita de L’Epine en travesti as Adonis and the contralto Jane Barbier as Venus. The work bristles with Italian virtuosity and dynamism and unlike most English-language dramatic music at the time, Venus and Adonis makes ample use of dramatic recitative. A clear model for Handel’s later Acis and Galatea, this world-premiere recording of Pepusch’s wonderful masque reestablishes the work as a milestone in the history of English opera.

Tracklist:
Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752)
01. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Overture (Allegro-Adagio e cantabile-Allegro)
02. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Hail! Bright Aurora!”
03. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “How Pleasant Is Ranging the Fields”
04. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “But Soft! What Nymph Is This?”
05. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Ah! Sweet Adonis, Form’d for Joy!”
06. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “O! Bounteous Goddess!”
07. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “With Her Alone I’ll Live and Die”
08. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Your Leave, Bright Goddess”
09. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Swain, Thy Foolish Sports Give Over”
10. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “In Vain of Love You Praise the Joy”
11. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Cease Your Vain Teazing”
12. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Accompagnato “Ah! Venus Lost!”
13. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Cupid! Cupid! Bend Thy Bow”
14. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Alas! Alas! It Will Not Be!”
15. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Hark! How the Cheerful Horn”
16. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “How Silly’s the Heart of a Woman”
17. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Such Scorn and Insult Can I Bear?”
18. Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Farewel, Venus! Welcome Pleasures!”
19. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Prelude (Allegro)
20. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “From War’s Alarms”
21. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Beauty Now Alone Shall Move Him”
22. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “Down to These Woods Descending”
23. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Gentle Slumbers”
24. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “This Way the Jolly Huntsmens Hollow”
25. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Chirping Warblers”
26. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “But Soft! He Moves”
27. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “What Heart Could Now Refuse Thee”
28. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “Ah! Ruin’d! Lost!”
29. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Thus the Brave from War Returning”
30. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “Ah! Cruel Mars!”
31. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “On Love What Greater Curse Can Fall”
32. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Chorus of Huntsman, Recitativo “Hark! Hark! Adonis, Hark Away!”
33. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Accompagnato “O Fading Joy!”
34. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “O! Mars, Unkind!”
35. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “O! Believe Me!”
36. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “He’s Gone!”
37. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “O! Welcome! Welcome! Gentle Death!”
38. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo & accompagnato “He’s Gone-The Flitting Soul Is Fled!”
39. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Let Every Tender Passion”
40. Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: “No More Let Mortal Heart”

Personnel:
Ciara Hendrick, mezzosoprano (Venus)
Philippa Hyde, soprano (Adonis)
Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor (Mars)
The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
Robert Rawson, direction

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