Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé - Locke: Psyche (2022)

Inspired by the Psyché created collectively by Lully, Molière, Corneille and Quinault, Locke's Psyche was a veritable artistic firework display: seeking to vie in splendour with the operas of continental Europe, it luxuriously combined theatre, song, dance, and spectacular machines and scenery. Sébastien Daucé here offers us his splendid reconstruction of this key masterpiece in the history of early English opera.
Tracklist
1. Locke: Psyche, Act I: Overture (2:16)
2. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: A symphony of recorders and soft musick (0:44)
3. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Great Psyche, goddess of each Field and Grove (Pan & Nymphs) (2:13)
4. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: A rustick dance of Sylvans & Dryads (2:20)
5. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Symphony of rustick musick representing an eccho (1:00)
6. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Song of Ecchoes "Great Psyche shall find no such pleasure as here" (2:33)
7. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Dance for Ambition, Power, Plenty and Peace (1:06)
8. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Entry of Envy (1:57)
9. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Song of Envy & Furies "Envy 'gainst Psyche" (1:24)
10. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Entry of the Princes Nicander & Polynices (2:46)
11. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Symphony at the descending of Venus in her chariot drawn by doves (0:44)
12. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: With kindness I your pray'rs receive (Venus) (1:23)
13. Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Symphony at the ascending of Venus in her chariot drawn by doves (0:49)
14. Locke: Psyche, Act II: Curtain tune. The temple of Apollo Delphicus (1:32)
15. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Song of procession in the temple "Let's to Apollo's Altar now repair" (2:30)
16. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Son of Latona (Chief Priest) (4:20)
17. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Dance of Priests (1:00)
18. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: To Apollo, our Celestial King (Chief Priest & his attendants) (0:30)
19. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Ceremony for Apollo (1:06)
20. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: Entry for Despairing Lovers (2:14)
21. Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: Break, break distracted heart (Four Despairing Lovers) (5:03)
22. Locke, Lully: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: Intermède. Plainte italienne (extr. from Lully's Psyché) (10:39)
23. Locke: Psyche, Act III: Curtain tune (3:36)
24. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1: Dance of Cyclops (0:55)
25. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1: Song of Vulcan "Ye bold Sons of Earth" (3:44)
26. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1: Song at the Treat of Cupid & Psyche "All joy to fair Psyche" (3:59)
27. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Warlike dance with a consort of loud martial musick (1:42)
28. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Song and dance of the Salij "Let us loudly rejoice" (1:05)
29. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Song of Praesul "Great God of War" (1:41)
30. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Warlike dance (0:47)
31. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: While we to Mars (Praesul) (0:20)
32. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Venus & Mars meet in the Air in their chariots; his drawn by horses, and hers by doves (1:32)
33. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Song of Venus & Mars "Great God of War" (2:24)
34. Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Entry of Furies (1:04)
35. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Curtain tune. A stately garden belonging to the magnificent palace (1:23)
36. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Entry for Cupids (1:07)
37. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Song for Cupids "Let old Age" (1:28)
38. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Dance of the statues, leaping from their pedestals (1:33)
39. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 2: Stay, stay (God of the River & two Nymphs to Psyche) (2:25)
40. Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 2: Symphony at the descending of Venus (1:19)
41. Locke: Psyche, Act V: Curtain tune. Burning ruins of buildings, the throne of Pluto, and a great number of Devils & Furies (0:43)
42. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: To what great distresses (Devils & Furies) (2:08)
43. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Dance of the Furies (0:49)
44. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Entry of Pluto (3:08)
45. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Refrain your tears (Pluto) (1:00)
46. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Psyche, draw near (Proserpina & Pluto) (2:09)
47. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Be gone, fair Psyche (Proserpina & Pluto) (1:58)
48. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scenes 2 & 3: Symphony at the descending of Apollo and the Gods (1:29)
49. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Assemble all the ye Heavenly Quire (Apollo) (2:21)
50. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: On Earth by unkindness (Three Elysian Lovers) (2:11)
51. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Symphony at the descending of Jupiter, Cupid & Psyche (1:07)
52. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Dance for Six Elysian Princes (1:34)
53. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Behold the God (Mars) (1:10)
54. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Rustick musick of Mænades & Ægipanes (1:06)
55. Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Grand chorus and dance, with all the instruments "All joy to this Celestial Pair" (2:33)