Blow*, Gibbons* & Locke*, Consort Of Musicke* ‎– Venus & Adonis / Cupid & Death Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ‎– 1 74623 1, EMI ‎– EX 157 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, box
Country: Europe Released: 1988 Genre: Classical Style: Baroque Tracklist Show Credits Venus And Adonis - A Masque For The Entertainment Of The King (c.1682) A1 Prologue: Overture 2:37 A2 Cupid's Entry 1:12 A3 Behold My Arrows And My Bow 0:50 A4 Come Shepherds All, Let's Sing And Play 4:35 A5 Cupid's Entry 1:13 A6 Act One: Act Tune 1:48 A7 Come Follow To The Noblest Game 8:14 A8 Entry - A Dance By A Huntsman 1:03 A9 Act Two: Act Tune 2:08 A10 You PLace With Such Delightful Care / The Insolent, The Arrogant 4:40 A11 A Dance Of Cupids 1:25 A12 Call Of The Graces / Mortals Below, Cupids Above 2:11 A13 The Graces' Dance 1:22 A14 Gavatt 0:54 A15 Saraband For The Graces 1:06 A16 A Ground 3:12 B1 Act Three: Act Tune 1:59 B2 Adonis, Adonis 5:59 B3 With Solemn Pomp Let Mourning Cupids Bear 5:02 Cupid And Death - A Masque In 5 Entries (1653) B4 First Entry: Cupid - Curtain Music 4:26 B5 Are All Things In Their Preparation 5:17 B6 Entrance Of Cupid And His Train Of Folly And Madness 1:33 B7 Song Though Little Be The God Of Love / Chorus: Thus Love Can Fiery Spirits Tame B8 Second Entry: Death - Suite Of Dances 1:57 C1 Death's Entrance Dance 1:40 C2 Holla, Within 9:30 C3 Suite Of Dances 3:39 C4 Song Victorious Men Of Earth / He Hath At Will 2:15 C5 Third Entry: The Exchange Of Arrows - Suite Of Dances 1:53 C6 Ho, Master 4:05 C7 Song / Stay, Cupid, Whither Art Thou Flying? / Chorus: O Let The Weeping Virgins Strow 2:31 C8 Fouth Entry: Distraught Nature - Suite Of Dances 4:03 C9 Nature's Entrance And Aria 3:56 C10 Old Men And Woman Dance 0:33 C11 Song What Will It, Death, Advance Thy Name / Chorus: O Love! O Death! 2:05 C12 Soldiers' Dance (The Hectors' Dance) 3:31 C13 Nature's Song: Change, O Change Your Fatal Bows / Chorus: Take Pity, Gods! 2:08 D1 Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends - Dance Suite 1:36 D2 O Yes ... 6:38 D3 Apes And The Satyr Dance 1:35 D4 A Symphony For Mercury's Entrance 1:21 D5 Mercury's Aria: Hence Ye Profane 2:46 D6 I Am Here. What Send The Gods By Mercury? 7:44 D7 Music For Elysium: Where Am I? 1:12 D8 Song: Open Bless'd Elysian Grove / Chorus: If This Place Be Not Heaven - O Who Shall Guide Me Hence? 3:59 D9 The Grand Dance 2:08 D10 Mercury's Aria: Return, Return You Happy Men 2:04 D11 Chorus: Like A Perfuming Gale O'er Flowers 0:58 Credits

• Conductor – Anthony Rooley
• Ensemble – The Consort Of Musicke

Notes With 72-page CD-size booklet with complete libretto in English and German.

DMM Direct Metal Mastering indication on front cover and labels.

Condition
Media: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve: Very Good Plus (VG+)

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