The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen / Robert Rawson
Pepusch: Venus and Adonis
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Hertz in Utrecht, 30 August 2021
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About this concert
‘Give us good music in a language we understand.’ The assignment given to the composer Johann Christoph Pepusch by London’s Drury Lane Theatre was as clear as it was ambitious. The result: the glorious masque Venus and Adonis. With a hefty dose of drama, temperamental characters, turbulent recitatives and breathtaking coloratura arias, it is time for this forgotten jewel to be rediscovered.
Programme
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Johann Christoph Pepusch
Venus and Adonis (1715)
libretto: Colley Cibber1667-1752
Musicians
- Ciara Hendrick Venus
- Philippa Hyde Adonis
- Vitali Rozynko Mars
- The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
- Leo Duarte, Mark Baigent oboe, traverso
- Tassilo Erhardt (leader), Amanda Babington, Matthea de Muynck first violin
- Penelope Spencer, Esther Visser, Daniel Booth second violin
- Joanne Miller viola
- Marcus van den Munckhof cello
- Sally Holman bassoon
- David Wright harpsichord
- Robert Rawson bass and musical direction
About the performers
Taking its name from the description by the poet Ned Ward of the musicians who played at one of the world’s first series of public concerts in London, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen was founded in 2006 to explore the neglected repertoire of public concert life in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.