Music from "Cupid and Death"

Christopher Gibbons, Matthew Locke; The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley

Type	Album
Released	1995
Label	Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Genre	Classical
Style	Baroque Opera

Tracks

26 tracks, 1 hr 10 min
#	Title	Duration
1	Cupid and Death: First Entry (Cupid). Curtain Music	4:27
2	Cupid and Death: First Entry (Cupid). Entrance of Cupid and his Train of Folly and Madness	1:32
3	Cupid and Death: First Entry (Cupid). "Though little be the God of love" (Soprano) - "Thus Love can fiery spirits tame" (Chorus)	2:32
4	Cupid and Death: Second Entry (Death). Suite of Dances	1:59
5	Cupid and Death: Second Entry (Death). Death's Entrance Dance	1:39
6	Cupid and Death: Second Entry (Death). Suite of Dances	3:39
7	Cupid and Death: Second Entry (Death). "Victorious men of Earth" (Soprano) - "He hath at will" (Chorus)	2:14
8	Cupid and Death: Third Entry (The Exchange of Arrows). Suite of Dances	1:54
9	Cupid and Death: Third Entry (The Exchange of Arrows). "Stay, Cupid, whither art thou flying?" (Soprano) - "O let the weeping virgins strow" (Chorus)	2:30
10	Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). Suite of Dances	4:02
11	Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). Nature's Entrance and Aria "Fly, fly, my children" (Nature)	3:56
12	Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). Old Men and Women Dance	0:33
13	Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). "What will it be, Death, advance thy name" (Bass) - "O Love! O Death!" (Chorus)	2:04
14	Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). Soldier's Dance (The Hectors' Dance)	3:30
15	Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). "Change, o change your fatal bows" (Nature) - "Take pity, gods!" (Chorus)	2:07
16	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Suite of Dances	1:36
17	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Chamberlain's and Apes' Entrance and Aria "O yes..."	6:38
18	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Apes and Satyr Dance	1:35
19	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). A Symphony for Mercury's Entrance	1:21
20	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Aria "Hence ye profane" (Mercury)	2:46
21	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). "I am here. What send the gods by Mercury?" (Cupid, Mercury, Death, Nature)	7:44
22	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Music for Elysium "Where am I?" (Nature, Mercury)	1:12
23	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). "Open bless'd Elysian grove" (Soprano, Bass) - "If this place be not heaven" (Chorus) - "O who shall guide me hence?" (Nature, Mercury)	3:58
24	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). The Grand Dance	2:07
25	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Aria "Return, return you happy men" (Mercury)	2:03
26	Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). "Like a perfuming gale o'er flowers" (Chorus)	0:58

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