Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard - Eccles: Semele (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Semele: Overture
02. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Behold Auspicious Flashes Rise
03. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
04. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Daughter, Obey, Hear, and Obey
05. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?
06. Semele, Act I Scene 1: See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
07. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Hymen Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
08. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Alas! She Yields, and Has Undone Me
09. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
10. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Symphony (1)
11. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (1)
12. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (2)
13. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
14. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Symphony (2)
15. Semele, Act I Scene 1: Cease Your Vows
16. Semele, Act I Scene 2: O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Born!
17. Semele, Act I Scene 2: Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
18. Semele, Act I Scene 2: She Weeps!
19. Semele, Act I Scene 2: Such Unavailing Mercy Is in Beauty Found
20. Semele, Act I Scene 2: Ah Me, Too Much Afflicted!
21. Semele, Act I Scene 2: You've Undone Me
22. Semele, Act I Scene 3: Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love!
23. Semele, Act I Scene 4: See, See, Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come
24. Semele, Act I Scene 4: Hail, Cadmus, Hail!
25. Semele, Act I Scene 4: Endless Pleasure, Endless Love
26. Semele, Act I Scene 4: Haste, Haste, to Sacrifice Prepare
27. Semele, Act I Scene 4: Cease Your Mourning
28. Semele, Act II Scene 1: Symphony
29. Semele, Act II Scene 1: Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay
30. Semele, Act II Scene 1: There from Mortal Cares Retiring
31. Semele, Act II Scene 1: Thither Flora the Fair
32. Semele, Act II Scene 1: No More, I'll Hear No More
33. Semele, Act II Scene 1: Not One of Curst Agenor's Race I'll Spare
34. Semele, Act II Scene 1: Hear, Mighty Queen
35. Semele, Act II Scene 2: See, After the Toils of an Amorous Fight
36. Semele, Act II Scene 2: Come Zephyrs, Come, While Cupid Sings
37. Semele, Act II Scene 2: Dance of the Zephyrs
38. Semele, Act II Scene 2: O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
39. Semele, Act II Scene 3: Sleep Forsaking
40. Semele, Act II Scene 3: Let Me Not Another Moment
41. Semele, Act II Scene 3: Lay Thy Doubts and Fears Aside
42. Semele, Act II Scene 3: Nor Was I Absent
43. Semele, Act II Scene 3: If Cheerful Hopes
44. Semele, Act II Scene 3: If This Be Love, Not You Alone
45. Semele, Act II Scene 3: Ah Me!
46. Semele, Act II Scene 3: With My Frailty Don't Upbraid Me
47. Semele, Act II Scene 3: Thy Sex of Jove's the Masterpiece
48. Semele, Act II Scene 3: Thy Needless Fears Remove
49. Semele, Act II Scene 3: By My Command
50. Semele, Act II Scene 4: Symphony

CD2
01. Semele, Act III Scene 1: Symphony
02. Semele, Act III Scene 1: Somnus, Awake
03. Semele, Act III Scene 1: Leave Me, Loathsome Light
04. Semele, Act III Scene 1: Dull God, Can'st Thou Attend the Waters Fall
05. Semele, Act III Scene 1: Only Love on Sleep Has Pow'r
06. Semele, Act III Scene 1: Somnus, Arise
07. Semele, Act III Scene 1: More Sweet Is That Name
08. Semele, Act III Scene 1: My Will Obey
09. Semele, Act III Scene 1: Away Let Us Haste
10. Semele, Act III Scene 2: I Love and Am Lov'd
11. Semele, Act III Scene 3: Thus Shaped Like Ino
12. Semele, Act III Scene 3: Behold in This Mirrour
13. Semele, Act III Scene 3: O Ecstasy of Happiness!
14. Semele, Act III Scene 3: Ah Charming All O'er!
15. Semele, Act III Scene 3: Be Wise as You Are Beautiful
16. Semele, Act III Scene 3: Unknowing Your Intent
17. Semele, Act III Scene 3: But How Shall I Attain to Immortality?
18. Semele, Act III Scene 3: Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid
19. Semele, Act III Scene 3: Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air
20. Semele, Act III Scene 4: Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair
21. Semele, Act III Scene 4: Tho' 'Tis Easie to Please You
22. Semele, Act III Scene 4: When I Languish with Anguish
23. Semele, Act III Scene 4: I Dare Not
24. Semele, Act III Scene 4: Oh Semele, Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?
25. Semele, Act III Scene 4: I Ever Am Granting
26. Semele, Act III Scene 4: Speak, Speak Your Desire
27. Semele, Act III Scene 4: Swear by the Stygian Lake
28. Semele, Act III Scene 4: Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear
29. Semele, Act III Scene 4: Ah! Take Heed What You Press
30. Semele, Act III Scene 4: I'll Be Pleas'd with No Less
31. Semele, Act III Scene 5: Ah! Whither Is She Gone!
32. Semele, Act III Scene 6: Above Measure Is the Pleasure
33. Semele, Act III Scene 7: Symphony (1)
34. Semele, Act III Scene 7: Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent
35. Semele, Act III Scene 7: Symphony (2)
36. Semele, Act III Scene 8: Of My Ill-Boding Dream
37. Semele, Act III Scene 9: Apollo Comes to Relieve Your Care
38. Semele, Act III Scene 9: From Tyrannous Love
39. Semele, Act III Scene 9: Then Mortals Be Merry (1)
40. Semele, Act III Scene 9: Then Mortals Be Merry (2)


Éternel oublié de l’histoire de la musique anglaise, John Eccles (1668-1735) en est pourtant un des maillons les plus importants. Appartenant à une grande famille de musiciens, membre des « Vingt-quatre violons du roi », il consacra le meilleur de sa production à l’opéra. Son chef-d’œuvre, Semele, emprunte les innovations françaises et italiennes tout en conservant la spécificité propre aux conceptions anglaises.

Longtemps privée d’une édition moderne, la musique d’Eccles recommence à faire surface comme en témoigne cet enregistrement de concert de la reconstitution de sa Semele, captée en 2019 lors d’un concert donné à la chapelle du Trinity College de Cambridge, sous la direction et la réalisation de Julian Perkins, à la tête d’une douzaine d’excellents solistes et des forces conjointes de la Cambridge Handel Opera Company, du Cambridge Early Music et de l'Academy of Ancient Music.

Cette Semele est restée dans quelques mémoires grâce à son livret utilisé par Haendel pour son dernier oratorio en 1743. Quant à l’opéra d’Eccles, il a fallu attendre 1972, soit deux-cent cinquante années après sa création, pour le réentendre dans une version incomplète. Cette nouvelle version est une véritable révélation et l’on ne peut qu’être étonné d’un si long oubli. L’oeuvre, d’une grande beauté, alterne les ressorts de la comédie et de la tragédie en décrivant l’humanité face aux Dieux qui représentent les miroirs de ses propres passions.

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