Composer: John Eccles, Gottfried Finger
Performer: Olivia Vermeulen, Capella Orlandi Bremen
Conductor: Thomas Ihlenfeldt
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555061-2
Release: 2018
Size: 641 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Finger: Love at a Loss
01. Overture
02. Jigg
Eccles: The Rape of Europa
03. Still I’m Grieving
Finger: Love at a Loss
04. Scotch Une
05. Hornpipe
Eccles: The Ambitious Slave
06. Why Should the Idle
Finger: Love at a Loss
07. Aire [1]
Eccles: Love Betray’d, “The Agreable Disapointment”
08. If I Hear Orinda Swear
Finger: Love at a Loss
09. Aire [2]
Eccles: Song set of Mrs. Bracegirdle
10. Strephon Whose Person
Finger: Love at a Loss
11. Round O
12. Bore
Finger: Alexander the Great
13. Overture
14. Aire [1]
15. Gavott
16. Jigg
Eccles: The Comical History of Don Quixote
17. I Burn, My Brain Consumes to Ashes
Finger: Alexander the Great
18. Entry
19. Bore
20. Minuett
Eccles: Cyrus the Great
21. O Take Him Gently
Finger: Alexander the Great
22. Aire [2]
23. Round O Chacone
Eccles: The Fickle Shepherdess
24. Hast, Give Me Wings
Eccles: The Mad Lover
25. Overture
Eccles: Acis and Galatea
26. Advance Gay Tenants
Eccles: The Mad Lover
27. Aire [1]
Eccles: Acis and Galatea
28. Come Ye Nymphs
Eccles: The Mad Lover
29. Aire [2]
Eccles: Acis and Galatea
30. Know I’ve Sworn
Eccles: The Mad Lover
31. Slow Aire
Eccles: Wine and Love
32. Cease of Cupid
Eccles: The Mad Lover
33. Aire [3]
Eccles: Acis and Galatea
34. Must Then a Faithfull Lover Go
Eccles: The Mad Lover
35. Jigg
Eccles: Acis and Galatea
36. Who Would Be Made a Wife
Eccles: The Mad Lover
37. Aire [4]
38. Aire [5]
Eccles: Acis and Galatea
39. Ah, How Lovely Sweet and Dear
Eccles: The Mad Lover
40. Aire [6]
CPO’s latest CD featuring the Capella Orlandi brings together stage music by Gottfried Finger and John Eccles, who wrote songs for the famous English stage actress Anne Bracegirdle. At the end of the seventeenth century England’s theatrical world was shaped by the defensive stance of traditionalists toward influences from the Italian opera and the magnificence radiating from the French court. The English counterproposal, the ‘English opera’, was a combination of ‘heroic plays’ with musical inserts ranging from individual songs, as were performed during Shakespeare’s time, to ‘all-sung masques’, miniature operas with pastoral content. The Mad Lover is a good example of the English opera. On this recording song inserts from other masques are added to this comedy by John Fletcher from 1647. Anne Bracegirdle was so very successful with compositions by John Eccles that she later exclusively sang works by him.
