| Description |
2 audio discs (2:34:43) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
023443 |
| Description |
digital optical stereo |
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audio file CD audio |
| Medium of Performance |
soprano voice 2 countertenor voice 1 tenor voice 1 bass voice 1 mixed chorus chamber orchestra |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Oratorio in three acts, to a text by Cardinal Pamphilj freely translated by Thomas Morell. |
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Title from disc label. |
| Performer |
Sophie Bevan (Beauty), Mary Bevan (Deceit), sopranos ; Tim Mead (Counsel/Truth), countertenor ; Ed Lyon (Pleasure), tenor ; William Berger (Time), bass ; Ludus Baroque ; Richard Neville-Towle, conductor. |
| Credits |
Paul Baxter, producer, engineer, 24-bit digital mastering ; Adam Binks, 24-bit digital editing. |
| Event |
Recorded 2013 August 4-7 Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Duration: 2:34:43. |
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Notes and libretto in English (26 unnumbered pages) inserted in container. |
| Contents |
CD 1 : Overture (4:04) -- Act one : Chorus : time is supreme (3:14) ; Recitative (Beauty) : how happy could I linger here (:13) ; Air (Beauty) : faithful mirror (4:46) ; Recitative (Pleasure/beauty) : fear not! I, Pleasure, swear (:35) ; Air (Pleasure) : pensive sorrow (5:17) ; Air (Beauty) : sorrow darkens ev'ry feature (4:06) ; Air and chorus : Come, come! live with pleasure / Rachel Redmond soprano (1:07) ; Recitative (Time/counsel) : Turn, look on me! behold old Time (:30) ; Air (Counsel) : The beauty smiling (3:58) ; Recitative (Pleasure/beauty/time/counsel) : Our pow'rs we all will try (:23) ; Air (Beauty) : Ever-flowing tides of pleasure (4:39) ; Recitative (Time) : The hand of Time pulls down (:23) ; Air (Time) : Loathsome urns (7:14) ; Chorus : Strengthen us, O Time (2:04) ; Recitative (Deceit) : Too rigid the reproof you give (:24) ; Air (Deceit) : Happy beauty (4:17) ; Air (Deceit) and Chorus : Happy, if still they reign in pleasure (2:59) ; Recitative (Counsel/Time/Pleasure) : Youth is not rich in Time (:44) ; Air (Time) and Chorus : Like the shadow, life ever is flying (2:50) -- Act two : Chorus : Pleasure submits to pain / Rachel Redmond, Emily Mitchell, Libby Crabtree, Martha McLorinan soprano, Catherine Backhouse, Judy Brown alto (4:57) ; Recitative (Pleasure/Beauty) : Here Pleasure keeps his splendid court (:38) ; Chorus : Oh, how great the glory (3:06) ; Air (Pleasure) and Chorus : Dryads, sylvans, with fair Flora (6:03) ; Air (Deceit) : No more complaining (2:35) ; Air (Deceit) : Pleasure's gentle Zephyrs playing (3:35) ; Air (Beauty) : Come, O Time (3:33). |
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CD 2 : Act two (continued) : Air (Counsel) : Mortals think that Time is sleeping (7:27) ; Recitative (Time) : You hoped to call in vain (:48) ; Air (Time) : False destructive ways of pleasure (4:16) ; Recitative (Counsel/Time) : Too long deluded you have been (:51) ; Air (Pleasure) : Lovely Beauty, close those eyes (3:17) ; Recitative (Deceit) : Seek not to know (:13) ; Air (Deceit) : Melancholy is a folly (3:53) ; Recitative (Time/Beauty) : What is the present hour? (:39) ; Air (Beauty) : Fain would I, two hearts is enjoying (1:45) ; Recitative (Counsel) : Vain the delights of age or youth (:30) ; Air (Counsel) : On the valleys (4:05) ; Recitative (Time/Beauty/Counsel) : Not venial error this (1:19) ; Chorus : Ere to dust is changed thy beauty (1:58) -- Act three : Sinfonia (:48) ; Recitative (Deceit) : Once more I thee address (:13) ; Air (Deceit) : Charming beauty (6:03) ; Recitative (Beauty) : Tempt me no more (:25) ; Air (Deceit) : Sharp thorns despising (2:44) ; Recitative (Counsel/Beauty) : Regard her not (:48) ; Air (Beauty) : Pleasure! My former ways resigning (4:02) ; Chorus : Comfort them, O Lord (4:38) ; Recitative (Beauty/Pleasure/Counsel) : Since the immortal mirror I possess (:26) ; Air (Counsel) : Thus to earth, thou false, delusive, flatt'ring mirror (2:51) ; Recitative (Beauty) : O mighty Truth! (1:21) ; Air (Time) : From the heart that feels my warning (6:21) ; Recitative (Beauty/Pleasure) : Pleasure, too long associates we have been (:27) ; Air (Pleasure) : Like clouds, stormy winds them impelling (5:01) ; Recitative (Beauty) : She's gone ; and Truth, descending (:47) ; Air (Beauty) : Guardian angels (6:03) ; Chorus : Hallelujah (2:02). |
| Language |
Sung in English. |
| Subject |
Oratorios.
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Oratorios. |
| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Oratorios.
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Oratorios.
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| Added Author |
Panfili, Benedetto, 1653-1730, librettist.
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Morell, Thomas, 1703-1784, translator.
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Bevan, Sophie, 1983- singer.
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Bevan, Mary, 1985- singer.
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Mead, Tim, singer.
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Lyon, Ed, singer.
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Berger, William (Baritone), singer.
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Neville-Towle, Richard, conductor.
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Ludus Baroque, performer.
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| Added Title |
Triumph of Time and Truth https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93109963
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| Standard No. |
801918341359 |
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00801918341359 |
| Music No. |
DCD34135 Delphian |
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34135 Delphian |
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