Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Rachel Baptist: Ireland’s Black Syren (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Rachel Baptist: Ireland’s Black Syren (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:11 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
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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.

Tracklist:
1. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Sinfonia: I. Andante (03:16)
2. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Sinfonia: II. Allegro (01:37)
3. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Sinfonia: III. Menuetto (02:18)
4. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: Mirth, Admit Me of Thy Crew (03:44)
5. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75: Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures (03:25)
6. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Alla Caccia “Diana cacciatrice”, HWV 79: I. La Marche (01:41)
7. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Alla Caccia “Diana cacciatrice”, HWV 79: II. Recitativo. Alla caccia (00:34)
8. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Alla Caccia “Diana cacciatrice”, HWV 79: III. Aria. Foriera la tromba (03:36)
9. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Handel: Alla Caccia “Diana cacciatrice”, HWV 79: IV. Coro. Alla caccia (01:54)
10. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Pasquali: The Grand Festino, Overture: I. Allegro (01:55)
11. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Pasquali: The Grand Festino, Overture: II. Larghetto (01:37)
12. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Pasquali: The Grand Festino, Overture: III. Presto (02:04)
13. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Pasquali: The Triumphs of Hibernia: Let Earth and Air and Ocean (03:10)
14. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Pasquali: Nymphs of the Springs: Nature First Played Well Her Part (07:02)
15. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Geminiani: Concerto grosso in D Minor, H. 143, Op. 5 No. 12 “La Folia” (11:42)
16. Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan – Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act V: Fairest Isle (05:29)

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