Christopher Gibbons

Music from "Cupid and Death"

Featuring
Release date 1995

Tracklist

1
Cupid and Death: First Entry: Cupid: Curtain Music
4:27
4:27
2
Cupid and Death: First Entry: Cupid: Entrance of Cupid and his Train of Folly and Madness
1:32
1:32
3
Cupid and Death: First Entry (Cupid). "Though little be the God of love" (Soprano) - "Thus Love can fiery spirits tame" (Chorus)
2:32
2:32
4
Cupid and Death: Second Entry: Death: Suite of Dances
1:59
1:59
5
Cupid and Death: Second Entry: Death: Death's Entrance Dance
1:39
1:39
6
Cupid and Death: Second Entry: Death: Suite of Dances
3:39
3:39
7
Cupid and Death: Second Entry (Death). "Victorious men of Earth" (Soprano) - "He hath at will" (Chorus)
2:14
2:14
8
Cupid and Death: Third Entry: The Exchange of Arrows: Suite of Dances
1:54
1:54
9
Cupid and Death: Third Entry (The Exchange of Arrows). "Stay, Cupid, whither art thou flying?" (Soprano) - "O let the weeping virgins strow" (Chorus)
2:30
2:30
10
Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry: Distraught Nature: Suite of Dances
4:02
4:02
11
Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). Nature's Entrance and Aria "Fly, fly, my children" (Nature)
3:56
3:56
12
Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry: Distraught Nature: Old Men and Women Dance
0:33
0:33
13
Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). "What will it be, Death, advance thy name" (Bass) - "O Love! O Death!" (Chorus)
2:04
2:04
14
Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry: Distraught Nature: Soldier's Dance (The Hector's Dance)
3:30
3:30
15
Cupid and Death: Fourth Entry (Distraught Nature). "Change, o change your fatal bows" (Nature) - "Take pity, gods!" (Chorus)
2:07
2:07
16
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends: Suite of Dances
1:36
1:36
17
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends: Chamberlain's and Apes' Entrance and Aria: "O yes ..."
6:38
6:38
18
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends: Apes and Satyr Dance
1:35
1:35
19
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends: A Symphony for Mercury's Entrance
1:21
1:21
20
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Aria "Hence ye profane" (Mercury)
2:46
2:46
21
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends: Cupid, Mercury, Death, Nature: "I am here. What send the gods by Mercury?
7:44
7:44
22
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends: Music for Elysium Nature, Mercury: "Where am I?"
1:12
1:12
23
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). "Open bless'd Elysian grove" (Soprano, Bass) - "If this place be not heaven" (Chorus) - "O who shall guide me hence?" (Nature, Mercury)
3:58
3:58
24
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry: Mercury Descends: The Grand Dance
2:07
2:07
25
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). Aria "Return, return you happy men" (Mercury)
2:03
2:03
26
Cupid and Death: Fifth Entry (Mercury Descends). "Like a perfuming gale o'er flowers" (Chorus)
0:58
0:58