Venus & Adonis

Album by John Blow & Catherine Bott & Michael George & New London Consort & Philip Pickett

Venus and Adonis is a short English opera by John Blow, composed in 1683. It features Baroque vocal writing and instrumental passages with dance-derived rhythms and expressive recitative, and is regarded as an early precursor to later English operatic works, representing a stage in Blow's development as a composer of dramatic vocal music.
OperaBaroqueClassical

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  1. 1.
    Venus & Adonis: Overture
    4:28
  2. 2.
    Venus & Adonis: The Prologue: Behold My Arrows and My Bow (Cupid)
    0:49
  3. 3.
    Venus & Adonis: The Prologue: Come Shepherds All, Let's Sing and Play (Shepherdess)
    3:18
  4. 4.
    Venus & Adonis: The Prologue: In These Sweet Groves Love Is Not Taught (Cupid)
    3:31
  5. 5.
    Venus & Adonis: The Prologue: Cupid's Entry
    1:05
  6. 6.
    Venus & Adonis: Act One: Tune for Flutes
    2:27
  7. 7.
    Venus & Adonis: Act One: Venus!... Adonis!, (Adonis, Venus)
    1:55
  8. 8.
    Venus & Adonis: Act One: Hunter's Music / Hark, Hark, the Rural Music Sounds (Venus)
    1:08
  9. 9.
    Venus & Adonis: Act One: Adonis Will Not Hunt Today (Adonis)
    2:34
  10. 10.
    Venus & Adonis: Act One: Come Follow, Follow to the Noblest Game (Chorus of Huntsmen)
    2:45
  11. 11.
    Venus & Adonis: Act One: A Dance by a Huntsman
    1:25
  12. 12.
    Venus & Adonis: Act One: Act Tune
    1:42
  13. 13.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: You Place With Such Delightful Care (Cupid)
    1:42
  14. 14.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: The Insolent, the Arrogant (Cupid)
    1:18
  15. 15.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: Choose for the Formal Fool (Cupid)
    1:42
  16. 16.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: A Dance of Cupids
    1:35
  17. 17.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: Call the Graces (Venus)
    1:04
  18. 18.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: Mortals Below, Cupids Above (Chorus of the Graces)
    1:16
  19. 19.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: The Grace's Dance
    1:28
  20. 20.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: Gavatt
    1:13
  21. 21.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: Saraband for the Graces
    1:06
  22. 22.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: A Ground
    2:17
  23. 23.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Two: Act Tune
    2:24
  24. 24.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Three: Adonis! Adonis! Adonis! (Venus)
    6:13
  25. 25.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Three: With Solemn Pomp Let Mourning Cupids Bear (Venus)
    2:23
  26. 26.
    Venus & Adonis: Act Three: Mourn for Thy Servant, Mighty God of Love (Chorus)
    3:49

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