Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Pepusch: Venus and Adonis (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:25:00 minutes | 942 MB | Genre: Classical
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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:
01. The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Overture (Allegro-Adagio e cantabile-Allegro) (04:36)
02. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Hail! Bright Aurora!” (00:54)
03. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “How Pleasant Is Ranging the Fields” (03:15)
04. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “But Soft! What Nymph Is This?” (00:14)
05. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Ah! Sweet Adonis, Form’d for Joy!” (03:53)
06. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “O! Bounteous Goddess!” (00:16)
07. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “With Her Alone I’ll Live and Die” (03:08)
08. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Your Leave, Bright Goddess” (00:20)
09. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Swain, Thy Foolish Sports Give Over” (02:01)
10. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “In Vain of Love You Praise the Joy” (00:49)
11. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Cease Your Vain Teazing” (02:47)
12. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Accompagnato “Ah! Venus Lost!” (00:32)
13. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Cupid! Cupid! Bend Thy Bow” (02:57)
14. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Alas! Alas! It Will Not Be!” (00:25)
15. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Hark! How the Cheerful Horn” (00:40)
16. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “How Silly’s the Heart of a Woman” (02:35)
17. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Recitativo “Such Scorn and Insult Can I Bear?” (00:41)
18. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, First Interlude: Aria “Farewel, Venus! Welcome Pleasures!” (04:17)
19. The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Prelude (Allegro) (01:25)
20. Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “From War’s Alarms” (00:25)
21. Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Beauty Now Alone Shall Move Him” (04:02)
22. Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “Down to These Woods Descending” (01:27)
23. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Gentle Slumbers” (04:33)
24. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “This Way the Jolly Huntsmens Hollow” (01:14)
25. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Chirping Warblers” (04:27)
26. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “But Soft! He Moves” (02:15)
27. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “What Heart Could Now Refuse Thee” (05:25)
28. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “Ah! Ruin’d! Lost!” (00:26)
29. Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Thus the Brave from War Returning” (01:57)
30. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “Ah! Cruel Mars!” (03:22)
31. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “On Love What Greater Curse Can Fall” (02:58)
32. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Chorus of Huntsman, Recitativo “Hark! Hark! Adonis, Hark Away!” (01:47)
33. Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Accompagnato “O Fading Joy!” (00:49)
34. Ciara Hendrick, Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “O! Mars, Unkind!” (00:38)
35. Ciara Hendrick, Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “O! Believe Me!” (04:02)
36. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo “He’s Gone!” (01:05)
37. Philippa Hyde, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “O! Welcome! Welcome! Gentle Death!” (02:41)
38. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Recitativo & accompagnato “He’s Gone-The Flitting Soul Is Fled!” (01:43)
39. Ciara Hendrick, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: Aria “Let Every Tender Passion” (01:55)
40. Ciara Hendrick, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson – Venus and Adonis, Second Interlude: “No More Let Mortal Heart” (01:45)
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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