JOHN ECCLES (c. 1668-1735)

first complete recording

The Judgment of Paris

49:37

or the Prize Music

A Masque

First performed at Dorset Gardens on 21 March 1701

Published by John Walsh and John Hare (1702)

Symphony for Mercury

1

[ ] -

1:21

2

[ ] -

2:17

3

Slow -

1:46

4

Brisk

0:56

5

Mercury: 'From high Olympus, and the Realms above'

3:26

6

Paris: 'O Ravishing Delight!'

2:37

7

Mercury: 'Fear not, Mortal: none shall harm thee'

1:28

8

Mercury: 'Happy thou of Human Race'

1:51

9

Symphony for Juno -

3:45

Juno: 'Saturnia, Wife of Thundring Jove, am I'

10

Symphony for Pallas -

2:27

Pallas: 'This way, Mortal, bend thy Eyes'

11

Symphony for Venus -

4:07

Venus: 'Hither turn thee, gentle Swain'

12

Venus, Pallas, Juno: 'Hither turn thee, gentle Swain'

1:52

13

Paris: 'Distracted I turn, but I cannot decide'

2:28

14

Symphony -

3:31

Juno: 'Let Ambition fite thy Mind'

3:31

15

Pallas: 'Awake, awake, they Spirits raise'

1:13

16

Pallas: 'Hark, hark! the glorious Voice of War…'

1:16

17

Pallas: 'Oh what Joys does Conquest yield!'

1:05

18

Chorus: 'O how glorius 'tis to see…'

1:10

19

Symphony

1:17

20

Venus: 'Stay, lovely Youth, delay thy Choice'

2:59

21

Venus: 'Nature fram'd thee sure for Loving'

3:48

22

Paris: 'I yield, I yield, O take the Prize'

1:10

23

Grand Chorus: 'Hither all ye Graces, all ye Loves'

1:43

Roderick Williams baritone - Mercury

Benjamin Hulett tenor - Paris

Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano - Juno

Claire Booth soprano - Pallas

Lucy Crowe soprano - Venus

Three Mad Songs

12:23

from A Collection of Songs published by John Walsh and John Hare (1704)

24

'Restless in Tought disturb'd in Mind'

4:12

Lucy Crowe soprano

25

'Love's but the frailty of the Mind'

4:34

Claire Booth soprano

26

'I Burn, I burn, my Brain consumes to Ashes'

3:26

Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano

Christian Curnyn

22 and 23 July 2008