Blow: Venus & Adonis

John Blow

Venus & Adonis
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - René Jacobs, dir.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1684 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "René Jacobs Opera Edition" HMX 290 1684 [CD]

Contents:

John Blow

Venus & Adonis: A Masque for the entertainment of the King

1. Overture
The Prologue

2. Cupid, chorus: Behold my arrows and my bow
3. Shepherds, Shepherdess: Come shepherds all
4. Cupid: Courtiers there is no faith in you
5. Chorus, Sherpherds, Shepherdess: In these sweet groves
6. Cupid's Entry

ACT I

7. The Act tune
8. Adonis, Venus: Venus! Adonis!
9. Hunter's Music, Venus
10. Adonis, Venus: Adonis will not hunt today
11. Huntsman, Adonis, chorus: Come, follow the noblest game
12. Entry: A dance by a Huntsman

ACT II

13. The Act tune
14. Cupid, Venus: You place with such delightful care
15. Cupids, Little Cupids: The Cupid's Lesson - The insolent, the arrogant
16. Cupid: Choose for the formal fool
17. A Dance of Cupids
18. Venus: Call the Graces
19. Chorus of the Graces: Mortals below, Cupids above
20. The Graces' Dance
21. Gavatt
22. Sarabrand for the Graces
23. A Ground

ACT III

24. The Act tune
25. Venus, Adonis: Adonis, uncall'd for sighs
26. Venus: With solemn pomp let mourning Cupids bear
27. Chorus: Mourn for thy servant

Playing time: 51'

Performers:
Rosemary Joshua (soprano - Venus), Gerald Finley (baritone - Adonis)
Clare College Chapel Choir
Thimoty Brown (choirsmaster)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightnement
René Jacobs, dir

Recording site and date:
Unknown [10/1998]
Rel. 1999 (HMU), 2003(HMX)

Excerpts:
[1], [25] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8174 L'Angleterre baroque - Baroque England / Un siècle de musique anglaise (1650-1760) - Masks, Anthems & Semi-operas

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Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (y., #-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

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