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Special offer. Rachel Baptist: Ireland's Black Syren

Rachel Redmond (soloist), Aisling Kenny (soloist), Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan

Rachel Baptist: Ireland's Black Syren

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this is an adventurous album and a timely reminder of our multicultural musical past...Redmond’s soprano voice makes an immediate impression.

BBC Music Magazine, July 2024

Special offer. Rachel Baptist: Ireland's Black Syren

Rachel Redmond (soloist), Aisling Kenny (soloist), Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan

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this is an adventurous album and a timely reminder of our multicultural musical past...Redmond’s soprano voice makes an immediate impression.

BBC Music Magazine, July 2024

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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.

Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Handel: Samson
Work length7:11
Samson, HWV 57, Sinfonia: I. Andante
Track length3:16
Samson, HWV 57, Sinfonia: II. Allegro
Track length1:37
Samson, HWV 57, Sinfonia: III. Menuetto
Track length2:18
Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: Mirth, Admit Me of Thy Crew
Work length3:44
Handel: Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75: Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures
Work length3:25
Handel: Alla Caccia "Diana cacciatrice", HWV 79
Work length7:45
I. La Marche
Track length1:41
II. Recitativo. Alla caccia
Track length0:34
III. Aria. Foriera la tromba
Track length3:36
IV. Coro. Alla caccia
Track length1:54
Pasquali: The Grand Festino
Work length5:36
The Grand Festino, Overture: I. Allegro
Track length1:55
The Grand Festino, Overture: II. Larghetto
Track length1:37
The Grand Festino, Overture: III. Presto
Track length2:04
Pasquali: The Triumphs of Hibernia: Let Earth and Air and Ocean
Work length3:10
Pasquali: Nymphs of the Springs: Nature First Played Well Her Part
Work length7:02
Geminiani, F: Concerto grosso in D Minor, H. 143, Op. 5 No. 12 "La Folia"
Work length11:42
Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act V: Fairest Isle
Work length5:29

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July 2024

this is an adventurous album and a timely reminder of our multicultural musical past...Redmond’s soprano voice makes an immediate impression.
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