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Music from 'Cupid and Death'

Libretto: James Shirley
Anthony Rooley, The Consort of Musicke
℗ 1988
29 Tracks, 1:29:36

  • First Entry: Cupid

    • 1. Curtain Music
      04:26
    • 2. Are all things in their preparation?
      05:17
    • 3. Entrance of Cupid and his Train of Folly and Madness
      01:33
    • 4. "Thus Love can fiery spirits tame"
      02:33

  • Second Entry: Death

    • 1. Suite of Dances
      01:57
    • 2. Death's Entrance Dance
      01:40
    • 3. Holla, within
      09:30
    • 4. Suite of Dances
      03:39
    • 5. "He hath at will"
      02:15

  • Third Entry: The Exchange of Arrows

    • 1. Suite of Dances
      01:53
    • 2. Ho master
      04:05
    • 3. "O let the weeping virgins strow"
      02:31

  • Fourth Entry: Distraught Nature

    • 1. Suite of Dances
      04:03
    • 2. "Fly, fly my children"
      03:56
    • 3. Old Men and Women Dance
      00:33
    • 4. "O Love! O Death!"
      02:05
    • 5. Soldier's Dance (The Hector's Dance)
      03:31
    • 6. "Take pity, gods!"
      02:08

  • Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends

    • 1. Suite of Dances
      01:36
    • 2. "O yes ..."
      06:38
    • 3. Apes and Satyr Dance
      01:35
    • 4. A Symphony for Mercury's Entrance
      01:21
    • 5. "Hence ye profane"
      02:46
    • 6. "I am here. What send the gods by Mercury?
      07:44
    • 7. "Where am I?"
      01:12
    • 8. "O who shall guide me hence?"
      03:59
    • 9. The Grand Dance
      02:08
    • 10. "Return, return you happy men"
      02:04
    • 11. "Like a perfurming gale o' er flowers"
      00:58