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2022-04-04 11:07:53
The very particular sound-world of 17th century London: Blow's Venus and Adonis from Early Opera Company
The Old Palace of Whitehall (where Blow's Venus and Adonis was premiered)by Hendrick Danckerts, c. 1675 John Blow: Venus and Adonis (1683)Anna Dennis, Jonathan McGovern, Miriam Allen, Early Opera Company, conductor: Christian CurnynSt John's Smith Square 2 April 2022 (★★★★) John Blow's Acis & Galatea is the fascinating intersection of two traditions, the English Masque and Italian opera. Probably written in 1683, the earliest surviving manuscript source describes it as 'A masque for the entertainment of the king' and as such it had the requisite structure with an emphasis on dance and the participation of members of the Royal court (King Charles II's illegitimate daughter, Lady Mary Tudor, and her mother, the former actress Moll Davies). But musically it is through composed and coherent in structure in a way that earlier 17th century Royal masques were not, and Blow was clearly influenced by the idea of opera; both Italian and particularly French […]
2021-05-10 07:37:34
"Heard a practice mighty good of Grebus" - Samuel Pepys and the tantalising Louis Grabu
The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrick Danckerts, c. 1675 On 20 February 1666 (1667), Samuel Pepys noted in his diary that the leader of King Charles II's band of violins (which the King had created in emulation of his cousin King Louis XIV's violin band), John Bannister, was "mad that the King hath a Frenchman come to be chief of some part of the King’s musique, at which the Duke of York made great mirth." This is the first of four tantalising references in his diary that Pepys makes to Louis Grabu (whom Pepys would call Grebus). Grabu was a Catalan, who trained in Paris, but the entirety of his documented career was in London. He seems to first appear in the mid-1660s, Charles II appointed him as a composer for his own private music in 1665, and with the death of the composer Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) Grabu became […]
2020-07-20 06:55:45
The Invention of English Opera: part two, the brief flowering of English opera, the rise of Italian opera and the development of ballad opera
The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrick Danckerts, c. 1675The Palace is probably where John Blow's Venus and Adonis premiered Considering that the country went through two revolutions, including an interregnum when music was ostensibly banned, there was a surprising amount of music theatre in England in the 17th century, and like other countries artists, performers and aristocrats eagerly experimented music and drama, sometimes creating something which we would recognise as opera, and sometimes coming up with hybrid forms. The vigour and ubiquity of Italian opera in England in the 18th century should not blind us to the importance of the tradition of the 17th century English opera. In the first part of my article, we looked at how the first operas, and the distinctive English genre of semi-opera, developed out of the masque tradition. Beaufort House, showing […]
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