The fourty-seventh classical recording: #53 John Blow - Venus and Adonis
Today's piece is an early opera, something we would have expected but I didn't quite expect to hear. The differences - English language, using older instruments - are surprising and it took me a while to realise that I could understand the lyrics. Still, it's the music that requires the bigger adjustment - operas so far have always seemed a bit more bombastic, but this makes it sound gentler. The story is fairly straight forward, but translates well to the music and the more delicate score really reflects that well.