Spiritato, Rodolfus Choir, Julian Perkins - Daniel Purcell: The Judgment of Paris (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony
02. The Judgment of Paris: From high Olympus and the realms above
03. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony for Hoboys to Paris
04. The Judgment of Paris: Wherefore Dost Thou Seek
05. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony for Violins (This radiant fruit behold)
06. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony for Paris
07. The Judgment of Paris: O Ravishing Delight – Help me Hermes
08. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony for Violins (Fear not mortal)
09. The Judgment of Paris: Happy Thou of Human Race
10. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony for Juno – Saturnia, Wife of Thundering Jove
11. The Judgment of Paris: Trumpet Sonata for Pallas
12. The Judgment of Paris: This Way Mortal, Bend Thy Eyes
13. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony of Fluts for Venus
14. The Judgment of Paris: Hither Turn Thee Gentle Swain
15. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony of All
16. The Judgment of Paris: Distracted I turn
17. The Judgment of Paris: Symphony for Violins for Juno (Let ambition fire thy mind)
18. The Judgment of Paris: Let Not Toyls of Empire Fright
19. The Judgment of Paris: Let Ambition Fire Thy Mind
20. The Judgment of Paris: Awake, Awake!
21. The Judgment of Paris: Trumpet Flourish – Hark! hark! The glorious voice of war
22. The Judgment of Paris: Trumpet Sonata
23. The Judgment of Paris: O What Joys Does Conquest Yield
24. The Judgment of Paris: O How Glorious
25. The Judgment of Paris: Stay Lovely Youth, Delay Thy Choice
26. The Judgment of Paris: Far From Thee Be Anxious Care
27. The Judgment of Paris: One Only Joy Mankind Can Know
28. The Judgment of Paris: Nature Fram'd Thee Sure For Loving
29. The Judgment of Paris: Gentle Shepherd
30. The Judgment of Paris: I yield, I yield
31. The Judgment of Paris: Grand Chorus

In their second album for the Resonus label, the London-based early music group Spiritato present the world premiere recording of Daniel Purcell's opera The Judgment of Paris.

Composed for the Music Prize of 1700-01 to a libretto by William Congreve, Daniel, the younger cousin or brother of Henry Purcell, here demonstrates an endlessly inventive and innovative style in a bold attempt to create a school of all-sung English opera. Used by all of the four entrants to the Music Prize (John Eccles, Gottfried Finger, John Weldon and Daniel Purcell), the libretto tells the tale of a shepherd Paris, who is visited by a messenger of the Gods, Mercury, who gives him the Golden Apple of Discord, which he has to award to the most deserving of three goddesses - Venus (goddess of love), Pallas (goddess of war) or Juno (goddess of marriage).

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