Inspired by the PsychÃ© created collectively by Lully, MoliÃ¨re, Corneille and Quinault, Locke's Psyche was a veritable artistic firework display: seeking to vie in splendor with the operas of continental Europe, it luxuriously combined theatre, song, dance, and spectacular machines and scenery. SÃ©bastien DaucÃ© here offers us his splendid reconstruction of this key masterpiece in the history of early English opera.

Tracklist:

Locke: Psyche, Act I: Overture
Locke: Psyche, Act I Scene 1
A Symphony of Recorders and Soft Musick
Great Psyche, Goddess of Each Field and Grove (Pan ; Nymphs)
A Rustick Dance of Sylvans ; Dryads
Locke: Psyche, Act II: Curtain Tune. the Temple of Apollo Delphicus
Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 1
Song of Procession in the Temple "Let's to Apollo's Altar Now Repair"
Son of Latona (Chief Priest)
Dance of Priests
To Apollo, Our Celestial King (Chief Priest ; His Attendants)
Ceremony for Apollo
Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2
Entry for Despairing Lovers
Break, Break Distracted Heart (Four Despairing Lovers)
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Matthew Locke: Psyche, Act II Scene 2: IntermÃ¨de. Plainte
Locke: Psyche, Act III: Curtain Tune
Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 1
Dance of Cyclops
Song of Vulcan "Ye Bold Sons of Earth"
Song at the Treat of Cupid ; Psyche "All Joy to Fair Psyche"
Locke: Psyche, Act III Scene 2
Warlike Dance with a Consort of Loud Martial Musick
Song and Dance of the Salij "Let Us Loudly Rejoice"
Song of Praesul "Great God of War"
Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 1
Curtain Tune. a Stately Garden Belonging to the Magnificent Palace
Entry for Cupids
Song for Cupids "Let Old Age"
Dance of the Statues, Leaping from Their Pedestals
Locke: Psyche, Act IV Scene 2
Stay, Stay (God of the River ; Two Nymphs to Psyche)
Symphony at the Descending of Venus
Locke: Psyche, Act V: Curtain Tune. Burning Ruins of Buildings, the Throne of Pluto, and a Great Number of Devils ; Furies
Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 1
To What Great Distresses (Devils ; Furies)
Dance of the Furies
Entry of Pluto
Refrain Your Tears (Pluto)
Psyche, Draw Near (Proserpina ; Pluto)
Be Gone, Fair Psyche (Proserpina ; Pluto)
Locke: Psyche, Act V Scenes 2 ; 3: Symphony at the Descending of Apollo and the Gods
Locke: Psyche, Act V Scene 3
Assemble All the Ye Heavenly Quire (Apollo)
On Earth By Unkindness (Three Elysian Lovers)
Symphony at the Descending of Jupiter, Cupid ; Psyche

UPC: 3149020944752
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Release Date: 9.23.22
Format: CD

Ensemble Correspondances - Locke: Psyche (CD)