Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Perpetual Night: 17th Century Airs and Songs (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Perpetual Night: 17th Century Airs and Songs (2018)
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The circulation of artists and sovereigns between France and England in the seventeenth century resulted in the establishment of highly original genres in the latter country: the first recitatives, large-scale airs from masques and dramatic ‘scenes’ provided fertile ground for experimentation and prepared the way for the birth of semi-opera. Sébastien Daucé explores this English vocal art in a programme tailor-made for one of today’s most fascinating voices: Lucile Richardot, in the exquisite setting provided by Correspondances, subtly blends music, love, night and melancholy.”

We could say that the composers chosen here by Sébastien Daucé and the Ensemble Correspondances cover England from 1600 to 1700, from Coprario’s generation (real name Cooper, but Italicised for fashion reasons!), Johnson and Lanier, all born before the turn of the 17th century, up to Hart and Blow who died just after. Step by step, we follow the integration of the new art brought over from Italy, although the typically-Italian recitations remain coloured by “declamation”, a typical feature of English music. Another clear pivot is the twenty-year musical hiatus between the start of the Civil War in 1642 and the Restoration with Charles II’s return to the throne, and in between, the Puritan religious dictatorship of Cromwell, which tried to ban more or less any form of celebration, including music. A number of English artists chose exile in the countryside, teaching music, or went abroad. This comprehensive selection spanning a whole century allows the Correspondances ensemble, a broad group of singers and instrumentalists, to show their deep knowledge of this whole epoch, which is extremely rich despite often precarious conditions of life and threats to survival.

Tracklist:
1-01. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Care-charming sleep (05:15)
1-02. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Justitia Sacrum (Whiles I this standing lake) (03:07)
1-03. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – The Masque of Squires: Go, happy man (02:00)
1-04. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – What tears, dear Prince, can serve (03:27)
1-05. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Music, the master of thy art is dead (02:50)
1-06. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Selected Ayres and Dialogues: No more shall meads (03:10)
1-07. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Go, perjured man (01:18)
1-08. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Pavan in F-Major (04:02)
1-09. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Choice Ayres & Songs: Give me my lute (02:27)
1-10. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Howl not, you ghosts and furies (04:40)
1-11. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Britannia Triumphans: Chorus “Britanocles the great and good appears” (King’s Masque Final) (03:18)
1-12. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Powerful Morpheus, let thy charms (04:46)
1-13. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – The Judgment of Paris: Rise, princely shepherd (06:39)
1-14. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Choice Ayres & Songs: Adieu to the pleasures (04:44)
1-15. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Choice Ayres & Songs: Amintas, that true hearted swain (03:43)
1-16. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Amphion Anglicus: Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain (Loving above himself) (05:10)
1-17. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Little Consort of 3 Parts, Suite III: IV. Saraband (01:24)
1-18. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Celestial Music: When Orpheus sang (04:16)
1-19. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Choice Ayres & Songs: Phillis, oh! turn that face (02:02)
1-20. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé & Lucile Richardot – Amphion Anglicus: Epilogue _Sing, sing, Ye Muses_ (03:43)

Personnel:
Lucile Richardot, mezzo
Ensemble Correspondances
Sebastien Dauce, direction

Composers:
Banister, John (1630-79)
Blow, John (1649-1708)
Coprario, John (c.1570-1626)
Hart, James (1647-1718)
Hilton, John (c.1560-1608)
Jackson, John (d.1689?)
Jenkins, John (1592-1678)
Johnson, Robert (c.1583-1633)
Lanier, Nicholas (1588-1666)
Lawes, William (1602-45)
Locke, Matthew (c.1622-77)
Purcell, Henry (1659-95)
Ramsey, Robert (fl.1610-44)
Webb, William (fl.1620-56)

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