Perpetual Night. Musica inglese

Nel diciasettesimo secolo gli spostamenti di artisti e sovrani tra Francia e Inghilterra hanno dato origine, proprio in Inghilterra, a generi estremamente originali. I primi recitativi, arie tratte in larga scala da masque e scene drammatiche, hanno trovato terreno fertile per la sperimentazione, tracciando la strada alla nascita della semi-opera. Sébastien Daucé esplora l’arte vocale inglese in un programma confezionato su misura per Lucile Richardot, una delle voci più affascinanti di oggi, in un raffinato scenario dipinto dall’ensemble Correspondences, che mescola l’amore, la notte, la malinconia.

L'EDIZIONE INCLUDE:
Robert Johnson (c. 1583-1633):
Care-charming sleep
Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher, Valentinian, 1614
William Lawes (1602-1645):
Whiles I this standing lake (Justiciae sacrum) William Cartwright, 1651
John Coperario (c. 1570/80-c. 1626):
Go, happy man
Thomas Campion, The Earl of Somerset’s Masque or The Masque of Squires, 1613
Robert Ramsey (?-1644):
What tears, dear Prince, can serve
Walter Raleigh, s.d.
William Lawes:
Music, the master of thy art is dead
An elegy on the death of his very worthy friend and fellow-servant, Mr John Tomkins, Organist of his Majesties Chapell Royall, c.1638 -1648
Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666):
No more shall meads
Thomas Carew, Select ayres and dialogues, Playford, London, 1669
Robert Ramsey:
Go, perjured man
Robert Herrick, s.d.
John Jenkins (1592-1678):
Pavan in F
John Banister (1624/25-1679):
Give me my lute
Choice Ayres & Songs (poem by Charles Davenant from Circe (1677) by Banister), Playford, London, 1679
Robert Ramsey:
Howl not, you ghosts and furies
Robert Herrick, s.d.
William Lawes
Britanocles the great and good appears
Sir William Davenant, Britannia triumphans (King’s Masque, final), 1638
William Webb (c. 1600-1657):Powerful Morpheus, let thy charms
Source : The New York Public Library (Ms. Drexel 4257)
John Hilton (1599-1657):
Rise, princely shepherd
Dialogue on the Judgment of Paris
James Hart (1647-1718):
Adieu to the pleasures
Choice Ayres and Songs, London, Playford, 1676 (from The Tempest, 1675)
John Banister:
Amintas, that true hearted swain
Choice Ayres and Songs (poem by Aphra Behn), Playford, London, 1675 & 1676
John Blow (1648/49-1708):
Poor Celadon, he sights in vain (Loving above himself)
Amphion Anglicus, Playford, London, 1700
Matthew Locke: (1621/23-1677)
Saraband
Matthew Locke his Little Consort of 3 Parts, Suite III, Playford, London, 1656
Henry Purcell (1659-1695):
When Orpheus Sang
Celestial Music, 1689
John Jackson (d. 1688):
Phillis, oh! turn that face away
Choice Ayres and Songs, Playford, London, 1675 & 1676
John Blow:
Epilogue: Sing, sing, Ye Muses
A song for Four Voices and two Violins, at an Entertainment of Musick in York Buildings, Amphion Anglicus, London, Playford, 1700