Venus and Adonis (complete opera)
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Venus and Adonis (complete opera)
Amanda Forsythe / Tyler Duncan / Mireille Lebel / Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles / Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs
[ CPO Records / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 18 May 2011
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Again in cooperation with the Boston Early Music Festival, we are now releasing yet another baroque opera, this time a work by John Blow regarded as the first »real« English opera.
The striking parallels between it and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas suggest that the two works were composed at about the same time and are interrelated in some way. While Dido and Aeneas stands firmly in the epic tradition, however, Venus and Adonis is a model example of the pastoral genre. The drama is accompanied by music throughout its length and offers three acts together with an enchanting pastoral prologue and a grippingly tragic ending. Following Charpentier's Actéon the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble and outstanding young soloists now lend new life to Venus and Adonis in a top-quality performance under the leadership of the lutenists Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs and with their participation.
Tracks:
VENUS AND ADONIS;
Welcome, ev'ry Guest, Ode for St. Cecilia's Day;
Ground in g minor for two violins and continuo;
Chloe found Amyntas lying all in tears
