Rachel Baptist: Ireland’s Black Syren | Linn CKD740

Rachel Baptist: Ireland’s Black Syren

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Label: Linn

Cat No: CKD740

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Expected Release Date: 24th May 2024

Contents

Works

Geminiani, Francesco

Concerti grossi (12) after Corelli
» no.12 in D minor 'La Folia'

Handel, George Frideric

Alexander's Feast, HWV75
» Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures
Cantata HWV79, 'Diana cacciatrice'
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV55
» Mirth, admit me of thy crew
Samson, HWV57
» Overture

Pasquali, Niccolo

Nymphs of the Springs
» Nature first played well her part
The Grand Festino
» Overture
The Triumphs of Hibernia
» Let earth and air and ocean

Purcell, Henry

King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
» Fairest isle

Artists

Rachel Redmond (soprano)
Aisling Kenny (soprano)
Irish Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Peter Whelan

Works

Geminiani, Francesco

Concerti grossi (12) after Corelli
» no.12 in D minor 'La Folia'

Handel, George Frideric

Alexander's Feast, HWV75
» Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures
Cantata HWV79, 'Diana cacciatrice'
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV55
» Mirth, admit me of thy crew
Samson, HWV57
» Overture

Pasquali, Niccolo

Nymphs of the Springs
» Nature first played well her part
The Grand Festino
» Overture
The Triumphs of Hibernia
» Let earth and air and ocean

Purcell, Henry

King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
» Fairest isle

Artists

Rachel Redmond (soprano)
Aisling Kenny (soprano)
Irish Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Peter Whelan

About

As champion of music from Ireland, Peter Whelan and his Irish Baroque Orchestra give a rare glimpse into a fascinating figure of the eighteenth-century Dublin music scene. Who was Rachel Baptist? Not much is known of the ‘Celebrated Black Syren’, other than she was a soprano of African descent and born in Ireland, sang regularly in Dublin, London, Liverpool and other cities, and performed alongside famed castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci. The programme includes works that Baptist might have performed at the ‘Grand Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick’ held in 1752, including arias by Handel, Pasquali (a couple of premiere recordings), Purcell and some additional instrumental pieces. The ‘resplendent’ Rachel Redmond (The New York Times) is the soprano.

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