The choir's rich
yet clear sonority
and firm yet delicate
expressiveness
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Blow Venus and Adonis
Original release date: 1993
Format:
Blow's Masque, recorded by soloists Rosemary Joshua (Soprano), Gerald Finley (Baryton) & Robin Blaze (Contre-ténor) with Clare College Choir and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by René Jacobs.
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Timothy Brown | Director
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Rene Jacobs | Director
- Overture
- Prologue: "Behold My Arrows and My Bow"
- Prologue: "Come Shepherds All"
- Prologue: "Courtiers There Is No Faith in You"
- Prologue: "In These Sweet Groves"
- Prologue: Cupid's Entry
- Act I: The Act tune
- Act I: "Venus! Adonis!"
- Act I: "Hark, Hark the Rural Music Sounds"
- Act I: "Adonis Will Not Hunt Today"
- Act I: "Come, Follow the Noblest Game"
- Act I: Entry: A Dance by a Huntsman
- Act II: The Act Tune
- Act II: "You Place With Such Delightful Care"
- Act II: "The Insolent, the Arrogant"
- Act II: "Choose the Formal Fool"
- Act II: A Dance of Cupids
- Act II: "Call the Graces"
- Act II: "Mortals Below; Cupids Above"
- Act II: The Graces' Dance
- Act II: Gavatt
- Act II: Sarabrand for the Graces
- Act II: A Ground
- Act II: The Act Tune [end]
- Act III: "Adonis, Uncall'd for Sighs"
- Act III: "With Solemn Pomp Let Mourning Cupids Bear"
- Act III: "Mourn for Thy Servant"
