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Venus and Adonis

Libretto: Colley Cibber
Robert Rawson, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Richard Edgar-Wilson (Tenor), Ciara Hendrick (Alto), Philippa Hyde (Soprano), David Wilcock (Voice), Ian Thompson (Voice), Chris Price (Voice), Jon Williams (Voice), Tassilo Erhardt (Voice), David Wright (Voice)
June 2015, Bishopsbourne, St. Mary the Virgin
40 Tracks, 1:25:04

  • First Interlude

    • Overture
      04:37
    • Recitative 'Hail! bright Aurora! Blushing Maid' (Adonis)
      00:55
    • 1. Aria 'How pleasant is ranging the Fields' (Adonis)
      03:16
    • Recitative 'But soft! What Nymph is this?' (Adonis)
      00:15
    • 2. Aria 'Ah! sweet Adonis, form'd for joy!' (Venus)
      03:53
    • Recitative 'O! bounteous Goddess!' (Adonis)
      00:16
    • 3. Aria 'With her alone I'll live and die' (Adonis)
      03:09
    • Recitative 'Your Leave, bright Goddess' (Adonis, Venus)
      00:20
    • 4. Aria 'Swain, thy foolish sports give over' (Venus)
      02:02
    • Recitative 'In vain of Love you praise the Joy' (Adonis, Venus)
      00:49
    • 5. Aria 'Cease your vain teazing' (Adonis)
      02:48
    • Accompagnato 'Ah! Venus lost!' (Venus)
      00:32
    • 6. Aria 'Cupid! Cupid! bend thy Bow' (Venus)
      02:58
    • Recitative 'Alas! alas! it will not be!' (Venus)
      00:26
    • Recitative 'Hark! how the cheerful Horn' (Adonis, Venus)
      00:41
    • 6. Aria 'How silly's the heart of a woman' (Adonis)
      02:35
    • Recitative 'Such scorn and Insult can I bear?' (Venus)
      00:41
    • 7. Aria 'Farewel, Venus! Welcome pleasures!' (Adonis, Venus)
      04:17

  • Second Interlude

    • Prelude
      01:26
    • Recitative 'From war's Alarms' (Mars)
      00:25
    • 8. Aria 'Beauty now alone shall move him' (Mars)
      04:03
    • Recitative 'Down to these Woods descending' (Mars, Adonis)
      01:28
    • 9. Aria 'Gentle Slumbers' (Adonis)
      04:34
    • Recitative 'This way the jolly Huntsmens Hollow' (Venus)
      01:14
    • 10. Aria 'Chirping Warblers' (Venus)
      04:28
    • Recitative 'But soft! he moves' (Venus, Adonis)
      02:16
    • 11. Aria 'What Heart could now refuse thee' (Venus)
      05:26
    • Recitative 'Ah! ruin'd! lost!' (Venus, Adonis)
      00:26
    • 12. Aria 'Thus the Brave from War returning (Mars)
      01:58
    • Recitative 'Ah! cruel Mars!' (Venus, Mars, Adonis)
      03:22
    • 13. Aria 'On love what greater Curse can fall' (Adonis)
      02:59
    • Chorus of huntsman, Recitative 'Hark! Hark! Adonis, hark away!' (Venus, Mars, Adonis)
      01:47
    • Accompagnato 'O fading joy!' (Mars)
      00:49
    • Recitative 'O! Mars, unkind!' (Venus, Mars)
      00:39
    • 14. Aria 'O! believe me!' (Venus, Mars)
      04:03
    • Recitative 'He's gone!' (Venus, Adonis)
      01:05
    • 15. Aria 'O! welcome! welcome! gentle Death!' (Adonis)
      02:42
    • Recitative accompagnato 'He's gone – the flitting Soul is fled!' (Venus)
      01:44
    • 16. Aria 'Let every tender Passion' (Venus)
      01:55
    • 'No more let mortal Heart' (Chorus)
      01:45