Galliard: Pan and Syrinx

Galliard: Pan and Syrinx
Composer Johann Ernst Galliard
Artist Musica Ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz conductor
Format 1 CD
Cat. number 93776
EAN code 5028421937762
Release August 2008

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About this release

A welcome opera to any listener diverted by the rich musical world of the 18th century. London, capital of that derided ‘land without music’, was the creative crucible of the day, the destination and then home of many foreign luminaries including Handel, J.C. Bach and then Haydn. John Galliard’s Pan and Syrinx achieved a name for itself and its composer just as Handel was in the ascendant in the early decades of the century with masterpieces such as Rinaldo and Acis and Galatea.

Galliard’s subject was also along the classical lines so
much in demand at the time: nymphs and shepherds, to be sure, but ones characterised by a sure touch for vocal lines and a forward-looking eye and ear for harmony. It is coupled here, as it often was at the time, with a delicious masque from Purcell’s music for Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. Thorough research has been undertaken to prepare and present the most ‘authentic’ first recording possible by the period musicians of Musica ad Rhenum, including care over the particular pronunciation of Restoration English.

Other information:
- First recording.
- Includes a booklet introduction, written by Jed Wentz.
- Libretto included.

Listening

Track list

Disk 1

  1. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Overture: Part 1”
  2. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Overture: Part 2”
  3. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Overture: Part 3”
  4. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Overture: Part 4” (Orchestra)
  5. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “On sunny Hills, in gloomy Shades”
  6. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Free from Sorrow, free from Anguish (Syrinx)”
  7. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “What do I see? (Pan/Syrinx)”
  8. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Go leave me, ’tis in vain (Syrinx)”
  9. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “How Insolently Coy! am I to be despis’d?”
  10. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Gentle Cupid, aid my pleasure (Pan)”
  11. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Symphony (Orchestra)”
  12. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “The rising Morn her purple Beams now sheds”
  13. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Bid the Tunefull cornet sound”
  14. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Yet hold: Some Ill our much-lov’d Syrinx waits (Diana)”
  15. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Air for the Nymphs”
  16. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Air I for the Nymphs and Sylvans”
  17. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Air II for the Nymphs and Sylvans (Orchestra)”
  18. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “These glances Stol’n a Flame confess (Sylvan/Nymph)”
  19. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Fairest, if thou canst be kind, Ah! (Sylvan)”
  20. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Think’st thou that awkward mien has Charms”
  21. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Let Nature henceforward neglect (Nymph/Sylvan)”
  22. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “A Sylvan and a Nymph Dance (Orchestra)”
  23. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Well do these Sports become Diana’s Train (Pan)”
  24. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Whilst your Harmony fills (Pan/Chorus)”
  25. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “How Sweet the warbling Linnet sings”
  26. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Toil’d and Impatient have I sought you long”
  27. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Why should Love, that triffling Passion (Syrinx)”
  28. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Love! How impatient hast thou made me? (Pan/Syrinx)”
  29. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly (Chorus/Syrinx/Pan)”
  30. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Cruel Sylvan, O forbear (Syrinx/Pan)”
  31. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Surprising Change!”
  32. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “But see! the Goddess comes (Pan)”
  33. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Presumptuous God! Am I so little fear’d (Diana/Pan)”
  34. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Lawless Rage and wild desire (Diana)”
  35. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “O mighty Goddess! To thy will I bend (Pan)”
  36. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Dance of Nymphs and Sylvans”
  37. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Bourrée I & II (Orchestra)”
  38. Johann Ernst Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: “Great Diana will we Sing (Chorus)”
  39. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “A Symphony of pipes imitating the chirping of birds (Orchestra)”
  40. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Hark how the Songsters of the Grove (First and Second Nymph)”
  41. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Love in their little veins inspires (First Nymph)”
  42. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “But ah! how much are our delights more dear(First Nymph/Second Nymph/Follower of Cupid)”
  43. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Hence with your trifling Deity(First, Second and Third Follower of Bacchus)”
  44. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Come all, come all to me, make haste (Cupid)”
  45. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Who can resist such mighty Charmes (Chorus)”
  46. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Return revolting Rebells where d’ye goe? (Bacchus)”
  47. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “The Cares of Lovers, their Allarms (Cupid)”
  48. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Love quickly is pall’d tho’ with Labour ’tis gain’d(Fourth Follower of Bacchus)”
  49. Johann Ernst Galliard: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: “Come let us agree (Cupid/Bacchus/Grand Chorus)”