The Early Music Show - Valentine's Music - Aspects of Love

Lucie Skeaping hosts a Valentine's special, with music encompassing both the disappointments and the more joyful aspects of love, and includes vocal works by Blow, Monteverdi and Solage. Playlist: Campion: A secret love or two Rachel Elliott, soprano Nigel North, lute Concordia Linn CKD 105 track 18 Charpentier: Medee (Act 1 Sc 3) Jason ...... Mark Padmore Arcas ...... Francois Bazola Les Arts Florissants William Christie (director) Erato 4509 96558-2 CD 1 Trs 12 and (part of) 13 Segue to: Anon: La Louison Le Poeme Harmonique Vincent Dumestre (director) Alpha 513 Tr 3 Anon: Pour vous servir Gothic Voices Christopher Page (conductor) Helios CDH 55295 Tr 1 Handel: Recit: Che sento? Oh Dio!; Aria: Se Pieta (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) Cleopatra ...... Sandrine Piau (soprano) Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset (director) Naive E8894 Trs 3 and 4 Blow: Venus and Adonis (execerpt from Act 1) Venus ...... Emma Kirkby Adonis ...... Richard Wistreich The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley (conductor) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD 77117 CD 1 Tr 7 Solage: Joieux de cuer Gothic Voices Avie 2089 Tr 7 Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 5 Sc 7; excerpt from Sc 8); Symphonie (Ou suis-je transporte?); Marche (Chantons sur la musette) Hippolyte ...... Mark Padmore Aricie ...... Anna-Maria Panzarella Diane ...... Eirain Jame Les Arts Florissants William Christie (conductor) Erato 0630 155172 CD 3 Trs 17 and 18 Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Pur ti miro) Poppea ...... Sylvia McNair Nero ...... Dana Hanchard The English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Archiv 447 0882 CD 3 Tr 10.