Galliard: Pan and Syrinx

Listen to Galliard opera: Pan & Syrinx, performed by amazing soloists with Musica Ad Rhenum conducted by Jed Wentz. This video concludes with Henry Purcell’s opera The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus from Timon of Athens. Composer: Johann Ernst Galliard & Henry Purcell Artists: Musica Ad Rhenum & Jed Wentz (conductor) Tracklist: Galliard: Pan & Syrinx: 0:00:00 Overture: Part 1 0:01:13 Overture: Part 2 0:03:10 Overture: Part 3 0:03:45 Overture: Part 4 (Orchestra) 0:05:30 On sunny Hills, in gloomy Shades 0:06:27 Free from Sorrow, free from Anguish (Syrinx) 0:10:30 What do I see? (Pan/Syrinx) 0:12:11 Go leave me, ’tis in vain (Syrinx) 0:14:54 How Insolently Coy! am I to be despis’d? 0:15:40 Gentle Cupid, aid my pleasure (Pan) 0:18:40 Symphony (Orchestra) 0:19:06 The rising Morn her purple Beams now sheds 0:19:31 Bid the Tunefull cornet sound 0:21:35 Yet hold: Some Ill our much-lov’d Syrinx waits (Diana) 0:21:52 Air for the Nymphs 0:22:46 Air I for the Nymphs and Sylvans 0:23:10 Air II for the Nymphs and Sylvans (Orchestra) 0:24:02 These glances Stol’n a Flame confess (Sylvan/Nymph) 0:24:26 Fairest, if thou canst be kind, Ah! (Sylvan) 0:26:50 Think’st thou that awkward mien has Charms 0:27:55 Let Nature henceforward neglect (Nymph/Sylvan) 0:29:31 A Sylvan and a Nymph Dance (Orchestra) 0:30:18 Well do these Sports become Diana’s Train (Pan) 0:31:19 Whilst your Harmony fills (Pan/Chorus) 0:34:24 How Sweet the warbling Linnet sings 0:38:45 Toil’d and Impatient have I sought you long 0:39:27 Why should Love, that triffling Passion (Syrinx) 0:40:12 Love! How impatient hast thou made me? (Pan/Syrinx) 0:40:49 Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly (Chorus/Syrinx/Pan) 0:42:29 Cruel Sylvan, O forbear (Syrinx/Pan) 0:45:06 Surprising Change! 0:48:22 But see! the Goddess comes (Pan) 0:49:13 Presumptuous God! Am I so little fear’d (Diana/Pan) 0:50:07 Lawless Rage and wild desire (Diana) 0:52:49 O mighty Goddess! To thy will I bend (Pan) 0:53:13 Dance of Nymphs and Sylvans 0:54:11 Bourrée I & II (Orchestra) 0:55:47 Great Diana will we Sing (Chorus) Soloists Syrinx: Johannette Zomer Pan: Marc Pantus Diana: Nicola Wemyss Sylvan: Mitchell Sandler Nymph: Richard Zook Purcell: The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus: 0:57:41 A Symphony of pipes imitating the chirping of birds (Orchestra) 1:01:18 Hark how the Songsters of the Grove (First and Second Nymph) 1:02:53 Love in their little veins inspires (First Nymph) 1:04:14 But ah! how much are our delights more dear(First Nymph/Second Nymph/Follower of Cupid) 1:05:35 Hence with your trifling Deity(First, Second and Third Follower of Bacchus) 1:07:48 Come all, come all to me, make haste (Cupid) 1:08:58 Who can resist such mighty Charmes (Chorus) 1:10:33 Return revolting Rebells where d’ye goe? (Bacchus) 1:12:16 The Cares of Lovers, their Allarms (Cupid) 1:14:01 Love quickly is pall’d tho’ with Labour ’tis gain’d(Fourth Follower of Bacchus) 1:15:13 Come let us agree (Cupid/Bacchus/Grand Chorus) Soloists: First Nymph: Pauline Graham Second Nymph: Nicola Wemyss Follower of Cupid: René Steur Cupid: Penni Clarke Bacchus: Marc Pantus Follower of Bacchus: Mitchell Sandler 2nd Follower of Bacchus: Hugo Naessens 3rd Follower of Bacchus: Richard Zook 4th Follower of Bacchus: Joost van der Linden A welcome opera to any listener diverted by the rich musical world of the 18th century. London, capital of that derided ‘land without music’, was the creative crucible of the day, the destination and then home of many foreign luminaries including Handel, J.C. Bach and then Haydn. John Galliard’s Pan and Syrinx achieved a name for itself and its composer just as Handel was in the ascendant in the early decades of the century with masterpieces such as Rinaldo and Acis and Galatea. Galliard’s subject was also along the classical lines so much in demand at the time: nymphs and shepherds, to be sure, but ones characterised by a sure touch for vocal lines and a forward-