Venus & Adonis

Album by John Blow & Rosemary Joshua & Gerald Finley & Robin Blaze & Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & René Jacobs

Venus & Adonis is a stage work (often described as a masque or chamber opera) by English composer John Blow, composed c.1683. Rooted in the English Baroque vocal-theatre tradition, it features solo and choral voices with continuo and small instrumental forces, blending lyrical arias, recitative-style declamation and dance-like passages, and is among Blow's early stage works that illustrate the emergence of English opera.

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  1. 1.
    Venus & Adonis: Overture
    2:40
  2. 2.
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "Behold My Arrows and My Bow"
    0:49
  3. 3.
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "Come Shepherds All"
    1:58
  4. 4.
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "Courtiers There Is No Faith in You"
    0:47
  5. 5.
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: "In These Sweet Groves"
    2:34
  6. 6.
    Venus & Adonis, Prologue: Cupid's Entry
    1:16
  7. 7.
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: The Act tune
    1:32
  8. 8.
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Venus! Adonis!"
    2:06
  9. 9.
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Hark, Hark the Rural Music Sounds"
    1:09
  10. 10.
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Adonis Will Not Hunt Today"
    2:27
  11. 11.
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: "Come, Follow the Noblest Game"
    2:32
  12. 12.
    Venus & Adonis, Act I: Entry: A Dance by a Huntsman
    1:01
  13. 13.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: The Act Tune
    2:52
  14. 14.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "You Place With Such Delightful Care"
    1:42
  15. 15.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "The Insolent, the Arrogant"
    1:34
  16. 16.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "Choose the Formal Fool"
    1:36
  17. 17.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: A Dance of Cupids
    1:35
  18. 18.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "Call the Graces"
    0:53
  19. 19.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: "Mortals Below; Cupids Above"
    1:26
  20. 20.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: The Graces' Dance
    1:17
  21. 21.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: Gavatt
    0:47
  22. 22.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: Sarabrand for the Graces
    1:34
  23. 23.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: A Ground
    1:40
  24. 24.
    Venus & Adonis, Act II: The Act Tune [end]
    2:08
  25. 25.
    Venus & Adonis, Act III: "Adonis, Uncall'd for Sighs"
    5:05
  26. 26.
    Venus & Adonis, Act III: "With Solemn Pomp Let Mourning Cupids Bear"
    2:26
  27. 27.
    Venus & Adonis, Act III: "Mourn for Thy Servant"
    3:19

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