LOCKE: PSYCHE

Inspired by the Psyché created collectively by Lully Molière 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. Sébastien Daucé here offers us his splendid reconstruction of this key masterpiece in the history of early English opera. Album Tracks 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: Intermède. 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.