Release Date: 26 June 2011
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 761203761425
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Blow
Release Date: 26 June 2011
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 761203761425
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Blow
Description
During recent years three Cpo productions in the Boston Early Music Festival series have received Grammy nominations in the category of the Best Opera Production and two have received Gramophone Award nominations in the Baroque Vocal category. Following Charpentier's Acteon (cpo 777 613-2) late last year, The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble and outstanding young soloists now lend new life to John Blow's Venus and Adonis in a top-quality performance under the leadership of the lutenists Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs. The striking parallels between it and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas suggest that the two works were composed at about the same time and are interrelated in some way. While Dido and Aeneas stands firmly in the epic tradition, Venus and Adonis is a model example of the pastoral genre.
Tracklisting
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Elena Harsanyi; Caroline Marcot; Andre Cruz; Thomas Bonni; Kolner Akademie; Michael Alexander Wille
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
amarcord
Opella Musica; camerata lipsiensis; Gregor Meyer
L'Orfeo Barockorchester; Michi Gaigg
Kyra Steckeweh; GewandhausChor Leipzig; Gregor Meyer
Katalin Kertesz; Reijo Tunkkari; Hanna Pakkala; Emiliano Travasino; Lauri Pulakka; Ulla Lampela
Choir Of New College Oxford