Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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:
01. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I: Overture (02:16)
02. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: A symphony of recorders and soft musick (00:43)
03. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Great Psyche, goddess of each Field and Grove (Pan & Nymphs) (02:13)
04. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: A rustick dance of Sylvans & Dryads (02:20)
05. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Symphony of rustick musick representing an eccho (01:00)
06. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Song of Ecchoes “Great Psyche shall find no such pleasure as here” (02:32)
07. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Dance for Ambition, Power, Plenty and Peace (01:05)
08. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Entry of Envy (01:57)
09. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Song of Envy & Furies “Envy ‘gainst Psyche” (01:24)
10. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Entry of the Princes Nicander & Polynices (02:45)
11. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Symphony at the descending of Venus in her chariot drawn by doves (00:43)
12. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: With kindness I your pray’rs receive (Venus) (01:22)
13. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1: Symphony at the ascending of Venus in her chariot drawn by doves (00:48)
14. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II: Curtain tune. The temple of Apollo Delphicus (01:32)
15. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Song of procession in the temple “Let’s to Apollo’s Altar now repair” (02:30)
16. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Son of Latona (Chief Priest) (04:20)
17. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Dance of Priests (00:59)
18. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: To Apollo, our Celestial King (Chief Priest & his attendants) (00:29)
19. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1: Ceremony for Apollo (01:05)
20. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: Entry for Despairing Lovers (02:13)
21. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: Break, break distracted heart (Four Despairing Lovers) (05:03)
22. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke, Lully: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: Intermède. Plainte italienne (extr. from Lully’s Psyché) (10:39)
23. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III: Curtain tune (03:36)
24. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1: Dance of Cyclops (00:54)
25. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1: Song of Vulcan “Ye bold Sons of Earth” (03:43)
26. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1: Song at the Treat of Cupid & Psyche “All joy to fair Psyche” (03:58)
27. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Warlike dance with a consort of loud martial musick (01:42)
28. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Song and dance of the Salij “Let us loudly rejoice” (01:05)
29. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Song of Praesul “Great God of War” (01:41)
30. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Warlike dance (00:47)
31. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: While we to Mars (Praesul) (00:19)
32. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Venus & Mars meet in the Air in their chariots; his drawn by horses, and hers by doves (01:32)
33. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Song of Venus & Mars “Great God of War” (02:24)
34. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2: Entry of Furies (01:04)
35. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Curtain tune. A stately garden belonging to the magnificent palace (01:22)
36. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Entry for Cupids (01:07)
37. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Song for Cupids “Let old Age” (01:28)
38. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1: Dance of the statues, leaping from their pedestals (01:32)
39. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 2: Stay, stay (God of the River & two Nymphs to Psyche) (02:24)
40. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 2: Symphony at the descending of Venus (01:19)
41. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V: Curtain tune. Burning ruins of buildings, the throne of Pluto, and a great number of Devils & Furies (00:43)
42. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: To what great distresses (Devils & Furies) (02:07)
43. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Dance of the Furies (00:48)
44. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Entry of Pluto (03:07)
45. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Refrain your tears (Pluto) (00:59)
46. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Psyche, draw near (Proserpina & Pluto) (02:08)
47. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1: Be gone, fair Psyche (Proserpina & Pluto) (01:58)
48. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scenes 2 & 3: Symphony at the descending of Apollo and the Gods (01:28)
49. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Assemble all the ye Heavenly Quire (Apollo) (02:21)
50. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: On Earth by unkindness (Three Elysian Lovers) (02:10)
51. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Symphony at the descending of Jupiter, Cupid & Psyche (01:07)
52. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Dance for Six Elysian Princes (01:33)
53. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Behold the God (Mars) (01:09)
54. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Rustick musick of Mænades & Ægipanes (01:06)
55. Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé – Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3: Grand chorus and dance, with all the instruments “All joy to this Celestial Pair” (02:32)