Ensemble Correspondances Locke: Psyche CD

Inspired by the Psych? created collectively by Lully, Moli?re, Corneille and Quinault, Locke's Psyche was a veritable artistic firework display: seeking to vie in splendor with the operas of continental Europe, it luxuriously combined theatre, song, dance, and spectacular machines and scenery. S?bastien Dauc? here offers us his splendid reconstruction of this key masterpiece in the history of early English opera.

1. Locke: Psyche, Act I: Overture 2. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1 3. A Symphony of Recorders and Soft Musick 4. Great Psyche, Goddess of Each Field and Grove (Pan ; Nymphs) 5. A Rustick Dance of Sylvans ; Dryads 6. Locke: Psyche, Act II: Curtain Tune. the Temple of Apollo Delphicus 7. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1 8. Song of Procession in the Temple "Let's to Apollo's Altar Now Repair" 9. Son of Latona (Chief Priest) 10. Dance of Priests 11. To Apollo, Our Celestial King (Chief Priest ; His Attendants) 12. Ceremony for Apollo 13. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2 14. Entry for Despairing Lovers 15. Break, Break Distracted Heart (Four Despairing Lovers) 16. Jean-Baptiste Lully, Matthew Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: Interm?de. Plainte 17. Locke: Psyche, Act III: Curtain Tune 18. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1 19. Dance of Cyclops 20. Song of Vulcan "Ye Bold Sons of Earth" 21. Song at the Treat of Cupid ; Psyche "All Joy to Fair Psyche" 22. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2 23. Warlike Dance with a Consort of Loud Martial Musick 24. Song and Dance of the Salij "Let Us Loudly Rejoice" 25. Song of Praesul "Great God of War" 26. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1 27. Curtain Tune. a Stately Garden Belonging to the Magnificent Palace 28. Entry for Cupids 29. Song for Cupids "Let Old Age" 30. Dance of the Statues, Leaping from Their Pedestals 31. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 2 32. Stay, Stay (God of the River ; Two Nymphs to Psyche) 33. Symphony at the Descending of Venus 34. Locke: Psyche, Act V: Curtain Tune. Burning Ruins of Buildings, the Throne of Pluto, and a Great Number of Devils ; Furies 35. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1 36. To What Great Distresses (Devils ; Furies) 37. Dance of the Furies 38. Entry of Pluto 39. Refrain Your Tears (Pluto) 40. Psyche, Draw Near (Proserpina ; Pluto) 41. Be Gone, Fair Psyche (Proserpina ; Pluto) 42. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scenes 2 ; 3: Symphony at the Descending of Apollo and the Gods 43. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3 44. Assemble All the Ye Heavenly Quire (Apollo) 45. On Earth By Unkindness (Three Elysian Lovers) 46. Symphony at the Descending of Jupiter, Cupid ; Psyche