Dido and Aeneas
(1689), 58:00, Purcell, Henry (1659-1695).
An opera on the Aeneid in which Dido's abandonment is effected by witches.
o ANGEL 61006, ARCHIV 427624, 431121, ARKADIA 619, BBC MUSIC 8003, CBC 5147, CHANDOS 0521,
0586, *8306, DECCA 466387, DG 427624, EMI 65664, ERATO 45263, *98477, GLOBE 5020, GLOSSA
921601, HARMONIA MUNDI FRANCE 901683, 905173, 907110, LONDON 425720, *L'OISEAU-LYRE
436992, NAXOS 8.553108, PHILIPS 416229, *432114, SONY 62993, TELARC 80424, TELDEC *42959,
91191, 93686, VIRGIN 45605, VOX 7518
Didon (1708), 10:30, Campra, André (1660-1744).
A solo cantata in which Dido laments her abandonment.
o PIERRE VERANY 786101 (with his Achille Oisif, Arion, Daphné, Hébé)
Le Mort de Didon (c. 1709), 12:00, Montéclair,
Michel Pignolet de (1667-1737).
A cantata for soprano and ensemble on Dido's lament over her desertion by Aeneas and her
death.
o HARMONIA MUNDI FRANCE 901280 (with his Le Triomphe de l'Amour and Pyrame et
Thisbé), KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 370962 ("French Cantatas of the 18th
Century", with his Pan et Syrinx and Clérambault's Médée)
Enée et Didon (1714), 15:00, Campra, André (1660-1744).
A cantata about Aeneas' winning of Dido during a storm, but without the tragic aftermath.
o HARMONIA MUNDI FRANCE 901238 (with his Arion and Le Dispute de l'Amour et de
l'Hymen), 901316/8 (3) ("Les Arts Florissants, Ten Years", with selections
from his Actéon, Lully's Atys, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas)
Didone Abbandonata (1734), 11:00, Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770).
A violin sonata in which the music suggests Dido's moods of love and despair.
o BIDDULPH LAW 006 ("Romantic Baroque Violin"), HYPERION 66430, PAVANE 7220
Didone Abbandonata (1747), 169:00, Jommelli, Niccolò (1714-1774).
An opera in which Dido is deserted by Aeneas, sees her city burned, and dies in the
conflagration.
o ORFEO 381953 (2)
Ascanio in Alba (1771), 164:00, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
(1756-1791).
An opera about Ascanius' marriage to the nymph Silvia of Alba Longa.
o *ADDA 590043 (2), FOYER 2032 (2), NAXOS 8.660040/1 (2) (the ADDA recording), *PHILIPS
422530 (3)
Didon (1783), 153:00, Piccinni, Niccolò (1728-1800).
An opera on the Aeneid with Iarbas and Aeneas as rivals for Dido until Anchises
orders Aeneas to leave.
o ARKADIA 596 (2), DYNAMIC 406 (2)
Aeneas zu Dido (1810), 7:00, Reichardt, Johann Friedrich
(1752-1814).
A song for solo voice and harp on Aeneid IV.331-362 by way of Friedrich von
Schiller as Aeneas pleads his case.
o ORFEO 245921 ("Lieder for Solo Voice and Harp", with his Prometheus)
La Morte di Didone (1811), 21:30, Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868).
A work for soprano and orchestra in which Dido laments her fate and vents her anger.
o BONGIOVANNI 2524, LONDON 458843 ("Cantatas, vol. 1)
Vedi Quanto Adoro (1816), 5:00, Schubert, Franz (1797-1828).
A song from text in Pietro Metastasio's Didone Abbandonata presenting Dido's
lament.
o HYPERION 33009 ("The Hyperion Schubert Edition: Complete Songs vol. 9", with
his Hin und Wieder die Pfeile [Eros]), 33032 ("The Hyperion Schubert Edition:
Complete Songs vol. 32"), *LONDON 440297 ("The Impatient Lover", with his
Pensa, Che Questo Istante (Heracles) and Haydn's Arianna auf Naxos)
Didone Abbandonata (1821), 23:00, Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832).
A piano sonata, opus 50/3, as a scena tragica depicting the gamut of Dido's
emotions.
o AMON RA SAR-8
Aeneas (1935), 40:00, Roussel, Albert (1869-1937).
Music for a ballet based on a work by J. Weterings.
o ERATO 24240 (2) (with his Bacchus et Ariane)
Dido (1967), 37:00, Novak, Jan (1921-1984).
A cantata based on Book 4 of Vergil's Aeneid.
o AUDITE 97457
Sub Nocte per Umbras (1989), 32:30, de Vries, Klaas (1944-).
A processional for large ensemble suggested by Aeneas' descent into the underworld at Aeneid
6.268.
o DONEMUS 34
Aeneas in Strophades (1990), 9:30, Rush, Stephen (1958-).
A serious pop work for four harps and tape, punning on the Harpies and echoing
progressive-rock music of the late 60s.
o MMC 2056
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AEOLUS
Der Zufriedengestellte Aeolus (BWV 205) (1725),
41:00, Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750).
A cantata with a raging Aeolus calmed by the work's dedicatee, botanist August Mueller.
o BERLIN CLASSICS 9224, ERATO 17578 (4) (with his BWV 213 - Hercules), HARMONIA MUNDI
FRANCE 901544/5 (2) (With his BWV 201 - Midas and BWV 213 - Hercules), PHILIPS 432161,
TELDEC 42915
Les Éolides (1876), 11:00, Franck, César (1821-1890).
A symphonic poem on Charles Leconte De Lisle's poem about the Aeolian winds.
o ARION 68293 (with his Psyché), ARKADIA 453 (with his Psyché), CHANDOS
9875, ERATO 45552 (with his Psyché), 88167, IMP 9037, INTERSOUND 2854, LONDON
433718, MUSIC & ARTS 274 (with his Psyché), NAXOS 8.553631, RICERCAR 9058/9
(2) (with his Psyché), TELDEC 74863, URANIA 107
Aeolus, God of the Winds (1978), 17:30,
Adler, Samuel (1928-).
A work for clarinet and piano trio with one movement each for Zephyrus, Boreas, Eurus, and
Notus.
o GASPARO 298
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AGAMEMNON (see also CASSANDRA,
IPHIGENIA, ORESTES,
TROJAN WAR)
Introduzione all'Agamennone di Eschile (1930), 21:00, Pizzetti, Ildebrando
(1880-1968).
Incidental music to accompany Aeschylus’ play.
o MONDO MUSICA 10201 (2) (with Donizetti's Messa di Requiem)
Liongate (1984), 21:00, Sigurbjörnsson, Thorkell (1938-).
A flute concerto inspired by the Lion Gate at Mycenae and evoking images of Agamemnon's
return from Troy.
o BIS 709 (with his Calaïs and Euridice)
AGES OF MAN
The Four Ages of Man (c. 1781), 17:30, Dittersdorf, Karl (1739-1799).
Symphony No. 1 from Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses on Metamorphoses 1.
o *CALIG 50885/6 (2), CHANDOS 8564/5 (2), MHS 522223, NAXOS 8.553368, SUPRAPHON 110579 (2)
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AJAX (see also TROJAN WAR)
Ajax (1972), 9:30, Eaton John (1935-).
A work for baritone and instrumental ensemble on Sophocles with Ajax reflecting on his
insane slaughter.
o INDIANA UNIVERSITY 04 (with his Clytemnestra, From the Cave of the Sibyl,
Aphrodite Rising)
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ALCESTIS
Alceste (1674), 166:00, Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687).
An operatic adaptation of Euripides with Admetus killed by a rival and Heracles in love
with Alcestis.
o *ASTRÉE 8527 (3), *DISQUES MONTAIGNE 782012 (3) (same recording), ALIA VOX 9807 (suite)
Admeto, Re di Tessaglia (1727), 217:00, Handel, George Frideric
(1685-1759).
An opera which starts with the basic plot, but adds a new lover for Admetus when Heracles
is to thought to have failed in his mission to rescue Alcestis, only to have Alcestis
re-appear.
o VIRGIN 61369 (3)
Alceste (1749), 57:00, Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759).
Incidental music for a masque or semi-opera by Tobias Smollett on Euripides' play.
o L'OISEAU-LYRE 421479
Alceste (1767, 1776), 151:00, Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787).
An opera on Euripides' play.
o (1767 Italian version) LONDON 436234 (3)), *NAXOS 8.660066 (3)
o (1776 French version) EKLIPSE 24 (2), IMAGE 9307 DVD, MELODRAM 26026 (2), ORFEO 027 823
(3), PHILIPS 470293 (2)
Alkeste (1773), 134:00, Schweitzer, Anton (1735-1787).
An opera on the familiar story based on a text by Christoph Wieland.
o MARCO POLO 8.225261 (2)
Alcestis (1960), 10:30, Fine, Vivian (1913-).
Four sections from music for a ballet using the myth as a metaphor for the coming of
spring and life.
o CRI 692
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ALCYONE AND CEYX
Alcione (1706), 155:00, Marais, Marin (1656-1728).
An opera on Ovid's Metamorphoses 11 with addition of a friend torn between loyalty
to Ceyx and love for Alcyone.
o ERATO/MUSIFRANCE 45522 (3), ASTRÉE 8525 (orchestral suite 53:00)
Alcyone (1902), 27:00, Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937).
A cantata for three solo voices and orchestra on her lament for Ceyx and her reunion with
him in death.
o AUDIVIS-VALOIS 4644, EMI 57032, RIZZOLI 2005
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ALPHEUS AND ARETHUSA
Alphée et Aréthuse (1713), 14:00, Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas (1676-1749).
A cantata from Cantates Françoises, Livre 2, but with a twist as Arethusa
relents to the wooing of Alpheus.
o MERIDIAN 84272 ("Triumph of Apollo", with his Apollon)
Aretusa (1911), 12:00, Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936).
A cantata for mezzo-soprano and orchestra on Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of Arethusa's
becoming a fountain.
o BLUEBELL 068 ("Songs and Birds"), CHANDOS 9453 (with his Deità Silvane),
COLLINS CLASSICS 1349 (with his Trittico), MARCO POLO 8.223347
La Fontane d'Arethuse (1915), 6:00, Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937).
One part of Mythes for violin and piano, inspired by a visit to the fountain
in Syracuse.
o ACCORD 201122, ASV 6215, CHANDOS 8747, CLASSICO 407, DG 431469, EMI 55169,
HARMONIA MUNDI 901769, 901793, KOCH SCHWANN 311552, LIGIA
302055, OLUFSEN 407, ONDINE 759, PAVANE 7280, PEARL 0205, SIMAX 1115 ("Quasi Una Sonata"), TRITON 16
Arethusa (1951), 2:00, Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976).
One of Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe about her change into a fountain
as she flees a lover.
o AMBROISIE 9909, CAMERATA 30CM-449, CAMPANELLA 130038, CHANNEL 9326, CRYSTAL 323, 325,
DELOS 3235, EMI 55398, HARMONIA MUNDI FRANCE 911556, HYPERION 66776, MDG O925, MERIDIAN
84119, NORWAY MUSIC 1004, PHILIPS 434076, SIMAX 1022, SONPACT 94011, UNICORN-KANCHANA
9121, VICTORIA 19036
Arethusa (1988), 15:30, Dinescu, Violeta (1953-).
A work for solo violin.
o CUE 2532, GEDOK 5235 ("Tautropfen")
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AMAZONS
Amazonen-Polka (1845), 2:30, Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899).
A polka recalling those female warriors from myth.
o MARCO POLO 8.223203 (with his Aeskulap-Polka)
Amazon Quadrille (1862), 6:00, Strauss, Josef (1827-1870).
A work composed for a costume ball where the female dancers wore the costume of an Amazon.
o MARCO POLO 8.223562 (with his Diana)
Amazon Polka Mazurka (1858), 7:00, Strauss, Josef (1827-1870)
A polka mazurka in honor of the liberated ladies of his time who took the Amazons as their
models.
o MARCO POLO 8.223568 (with his Sylph Polka)
AMPHIARAOS (see ERIPHYLE)
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AMPHION
Amphion (1777), 8:00, Naumann, Johann (1741-1801).
Selections from an opéra-ballet about Amphion's winning Antiope through his
musical powers.
o MUSICA SVECIAE 426 ("Gustavian Operas", with Haeffner's Electra and
Uttini's Thetis och Pelée)
Amphion (Prelude, Fugue, and Postlude)
(1921), 40:00, Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955).
Parts of a ballet-melodrama for Paul Valery's Amphion with Apollo ordering Amphion
to invent music.
o ERATO 45862 (also contains his Phaedra Prelude), TIMPANI 1035
AMPHITRITE
Le Cortège d'Amphitrite (1905-7), 3:00, Koechlin, Charles (1867-1930).
A song in Au Flanc du Verse on Albert Samain's poem about her procession across the
sea.
o HYPERION 66243 ("Le Cortege d'Amphitrite", with his Améthyste, Hymne
à Venus, La Naïade)
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AMPHITRYON AND ALCMENE
Amphitrion or the Two Sosias (1690), 9:30, Purcell, Henry (1659-1695).
Some of the music for John Dryden's comedy after Plautus and Molière.
o ATMA 2300, HYPERION 67001/3 (3) ("Complete Ayres for the Theater"), L'OISEAU-LYRE 444 620
("The Glory of Purcell")
Amor es Todo Invencion (Jupiter y Amphitrion) (1721), 192:00,
Facco, Giacomo (1676-1753).
A comic opera based on one of the best-known sexual escapades of Zeus.
o PAVANE 7446 (3)
Amphitryon (1787), Kraus, Josef Martin (1756-1792).
Entr'acte and ballet music for a performance of Molière's Amphitryon.
o OPUS 3 19304 ("Viriditas per Omnibus")
Amphitrion, 8:00,Wagenaar, Johan (1862-1941).
An overture inspired by Heinrich von Kleist's serious drama of the same comic story.
o LONDON 425833
Out of This World (1950), 64:00, Porter, Cole
(1891-1964).
A musical comedy on Plautus' Amphitryon with Zeus as a still persistent lover in
the 20th century.
o DRG 94764, SONY 48223
Olympus on My Mind (1986), 47:00, Sturiale, Grant.
A musical comedy on the same exploits of Kleist's play.
o JAY 1238
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ANDROMACHE (see also HECTOR, TROJAN
WAR)
Ermione (1819), 120:00, Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868).
An opera on Jean Racine's Andromaque of Hermione's rebuff by Pyrrhus and her
revenge after the Trojan War.
o ERATO 45790 (2), 75336 (2).
Andromaque (1903), 13:00, Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921).
The overture and prelude to the fourth act of incidental music for Jean Racine's play.
o VALOIS 4688
Andromache's Farewell (1962), 12:30, Barber, Samuel (1910-1981).
A work for soprano and orchestra on a scene from Euripides' The Trojan Women.
o ETCETERA 1145, SONY 46727, 62837 (with his Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance)
ANDROMEDA (see PERSEUS)
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ANTIGONE (see also OEDIPUS)
Antigona (1772), 160:00, Traetta, Tommaso (1727-1779).
An opera which follows Sophocles' play rather closely until the introduction of a happy
ending.
o DECCA 460204 (2)
Antigone (1841), 55:00, Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847).
Incidental music with an overture and music for choruses only for Sophocles' tragedy.
o CAPRICCIO 10392
Antigone (1921-2), 25:00, Raitio, Väinö (1891-1945).
A three-movement tone poem on this mythical heroine.
o ONDINE 790
Antigone (1927), 44:00, Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955).
An opera on Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Sophocles' play.
o BOURG 17, PHILIPS 434105
Sinfonía de Antígona (Symphony No. 1)
(1933), 14:00, Chávez, Carlos (1899-1978).
Originally incidental music for a Jean Cocteau production of Sophocles' Antigone.
o ASV 653, 942 ("Musica Mexicana, vol. 8"), 1058 (with his The Daughter of
Colchis), EVEREST 9041, MMG 10002, PHILIPS 422305, VOX BOX 5061 (2)
Antigonae (1949), 140:00, Orff, Carl (1895-1982).
Music to enhance Friedrich Hölderlin's close rendering of Sophocles' Antigone.
o DG 437721, *ORFEO D'OR 407952 (2), STRADIVARIUS 10060 (2)
Antigone (1981-2), 19:00, Hvoslef, Ketil (1939-).
A set of symphonic variations for orchestra on incidental music for Sophocles' Antigone.
o AURORA 4969
Antigone-Legend (1982), 53:00, Rzewski, Frederic (1938-).
A work for soprano and piano on Bertholt Brecht's poem about her courage and dignity in
the face of tyranny.
o CRI 548, 747
Hymn to the Human Spirit (1983), 12:00, Constantinides, Dinos (1929-).
A work for tenor and orchestra on Sophocles' Antigone.
o VESTIGE 04
Antigone (1991), 53:30, de Leeuw, Ton (1926-1996).
A musical drama on Sophocles' play emphasizing the idea of humans as pawns of the gods.
o NM CLASSICS 92036
Antigone (Symphony No. 4) (1994), 20:00, Constantinides, Dinos (1929-).
A symphony from incidental music for a production of Sophocles' play.
o CAPSTONE 8627 ("Tonus Tomis")
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APHRODITE/VENUS (see also ADONIS,
OLYMPIAN GODS, PYGMALION)
La Déesse Venus (1588), 4:00, Monte, Philippe de (1521-1603).
A song for five voices from Bk. 13 of his madrigals on a text of Sappho.
o EMI 63428 ("Sacred and Secular Works"), 67118 ("Hilliard Ensemble:
Highlights")
Venere ed Amore (c.1695), 38:30, Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725).
A serenata for two voices and instruments about Venus’ search for her son in the
city upon finding him, listens as he sings of his successes.
o HUNGAROTON 32101
Sappho to the Goddess of Love (1700), 6:00, Blow, John (1649-1708).
A song for soprano and strings with Sappho asking Venus to aid her with her arts of love.
o ELEKTRA-NONESUCH 79156 ("Welcome Every Guest")
Aphrodite Symphony (1792), 26:30, Vranicky, Antonín (1761-1820).
A program symphony suggesting the Greek goddess.
o SUPRAPHON 72438
Cytherea Quadrille (1844), 6:00, Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899).
His first work inspired by a classical mythical figure, Aphrodite.
o MARCO POLO 8.223202
Tannhäuser (1845), 183:00, Wagner, Richard (1813-1883).
An opera about a minstrel-knight in medieval Germany seeking release from Venus who
represents carnal love.
o (Dresden) ANGEL 47295 (3), DG 457682 (3), *EMI 63214 (3), HARDY 6004 (3), HIS MASTER'S
VOICE 747296-8 (3), MALIBRAN 113 (2), MELODRAM 322 (4), 36105 (3), 37073 (3), 37091 (3),
PHILIPS 420122 (3), PREISER 90133 (3), SERENISSIMA 360166 (3), TELDEC 88064 (3)
o (Paris) ARKADIA 204(3), 432 (3), *DG 427625 (3), 435405 (3), GEBHARDT 20 (3), HUNT
PRODUCTIONS 34032 (3), *LONDON 414581 (3), MYTO 932.77 (3), PEARL 9941 (2), *PHILIPS
434607 (3), STRADIVARIUS 12318 (3)
o (selections) CHESKY 19, LEGATO CLASSICS 168 (2), RELIEF 1881, TELDEC 91973, VAI AUDIO
1084
o (orchestral excerpts) DELOS 3040, SONY 47178 ("Tannhäuser Without Words")
La Naissance de Venus (1895), 23:00, Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924).
A work for soloists, chorus, and orchestra celebrating the birth of Venus and
her welcome into Olympus by Zeus.
o CHANDOS 10113
Hymne à Vénus (1904),13:30, Magnard, Albéric (1865-1914).
An orchestral work celebrating the purity and fidelity as well as the passion
and sensuality of conjugal love.
o TIMPANI 1067
Hymn to Aphrodite (1906), 7:30, Bantock, Granville (1868-1946).
A song from the song cycle Sappho on text by Sappho about the goddess of love.
o HYPERION 66899 (with his Muse of the Golden Throne)
Aphrodite (1910), 28:00, Chadwick, George (1854-1931).
A symphonic poem about both the power of love as well as the charm of the sea.
o NAXOS 8.559117 (with his Euterpe, Melpomene, and Thalia), REFERENCE 74, 2104 (with his Melpomene)
Khrizis (Ballet Suite 2) (1912), 44:00, Gliere, Reinhold (1875-1956).
A suite of music from a ballet in which a Greek girl seeking happiness is destroyed by
Venus.
o CONSONANCE 81-3000, ICONE 9423
Prière à Aphrodite (1914), 1:00, Lourié, Arthur (1893-1966).
A prayer to the goddess asking for a favor.
o LE CHANT DU MONDE 288025 ("Mélodies Russes des Années 1920", with his Déploration
pour Adonis and Le Jardin des Nymphes)
Hymne à Vénus (1918), 4:00, Koechlin, Charles
(1867-1930).
A song in 2 Melodies on the second canto of Philippe Auguste Villiers de L'Isle
Adam's poem about the sensual love of pagans in opposition to the love of Christ.
o HYPERION 66243 ("Le Cortege d'Amphitrite", with his Améthyste, Le
Cortège d'Amphitrite, La Naïade)
Venus (1922), 91:00, Schoeck, Othmar (1886-1957).
An opera on Prosper Mérimée's La Vénus d'Ille with elements from Joseph von
Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild in which an ancient statue comes to life and
infatuates and then kills a young man.
o MUSIKSZENE SCHWEIZ 6112 (2)
The Birth of Venus (1927), 5:00, Respighi, Ottorino
(1879-1936).
One musical picture from Trittico Botticelliano, setting to music the composer's
reaction to the painting.
o CALA 1007, CAMPION 1316, CBC 5080, CHANDOS 8913, COLLINS CLASSICS 1349, DENON 78916, *DG
437533, EMI 47844, 69358 (2), STRADIVARI 8013, SUPRAPHON 110683, TELARC 80309, *TELDEC
91729
The Cyprian Goddess (1938-9), 24:30, Bantock, Granville (1868-1946).
Symphony No. 3 centering on Venus after inspiration from a sea voyage to Cyprus, using
quotes from Theocritus, Bion, and
Horace Odes I.30.
o HYPERION 66810
One Touch of Venus (1943), 13:00, Weill, Kurt
(1900-1950).
Selections from a musical comedy on Frank Anstey's short story about a barber bringing a
statue of Venus to life.
o DG439894 ("Speak Low"), DRG 5207 ("Julie Wilson Sings the Kurt Weill
Songbook"), KOCH SCHWANN 314162, LONDON 425204 ("Ute Lemper Sings Kurt
Weill"), 440280, NONESUCH 79131 ("Stratas Sings Weill"), PEARL 9189 (2)
(("From Berlin to Broadway")
Trionfo di Afrodite (1953), 41:00, Orff, Carl (1895-1982).
A concerto of seven scenes, the final part of the triptych Trionfi, set to poems by
Catullus, Sappho, and Euripides.
o BERLIN CLASSICS 2047 (2), DG 474131 (2), EMI 55517, SUPRAPHON 110321 (2), WERGO 6275 (3)
Ode to Venus (Symphonique #3) (1954, rev.
1960, 1969), 6:00, Moondog (Louis Hardin) (1916-).
A work for strings and woodwinds evoking the joys and sorrows of love.
o CBS 44994 ("The Music of Moondog")
Venus (1959), 2:30, Marshall, Edward H. (1932-).
A pop song in which a modern-day lover asks Venus to send him the perfect mate.
o RHINO 70620 ("Billboard Top Rock'N'Roll Hits - 1959")
Il Giardino di Afrodite (1961), 5:00, Pizzetti, Ildebrando (1880-1968).
A part of Due Composizioni Corali on one of Sappho's poem addressed to the goddess.
o CHANDOS 8964
Venus in Blue Jeans (1962), 2:30, Greenfield, Howard (d. 1986).
A pop song in which someone likens his new love to a teen-age Venus.
o ACE 2038 ("The Very Best of Jimmy Clanton"), 2073 ("Letter from an
Angel"), DC 8892 ("Dick Clark's All-time 21 Hits, Vol. 2"), DELTA 11024
("American Dreams"), DOMINION 607 ("Golden Years: 1962"), HIGHLAND 283
("Super Hits of the 60's"), HOLLYWOOD 283 ("Super Hits of the 60's"),
K-TEL 6072 ("Golden Years: 1962"), KING 2377 ("Hits from 1962"),
LASERLIGHT 12323 ("American Dreams"), ORIGINAL SOUND 8892 ("21 All-time
Hits, Vol. 2")
Anahit (Lyrical Poem Dedicated to Venus) (1965),
13:00, Scelsi, Giacinto (1905-1988).
A work for violin and chamber orchestra to an eastern goddess of water associated with
Venus.
o ACCORD 200612, CP² 108
Anadyomene (Adoration of Aphrodite) (1968), 12:00,
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (1928-).
An orchestral homage to Aphrodite, goddess of love, born of the sea foam.
o ONDINE 921
Sao-no-Kyoku (The Venus in Spring) (1971), 8:00, Miki, Minoru (1930-).
A work for koto inspired by the ancient goddess of spring, seen through westernized
Japanese eyes.
o CAMERATA 55
Tatsuta-no-Kyoku (The Venus in Autumn) (1971), 8:30, Miki, Minoru
(1930-).
A work for koto inspired by the ancient goddess of autumn, seen through westernized
Japanese eyes.
o CAMERATA 55
Birth of Venus (1976-7), 3:00, Korte, OldÍich (1926-).
The first movement of Wonderful Circus, a wok in bossa nova style, written for
Prague's Laterna Magica Theater.
o PANTON 1257
The Vigil of Venus (1980), 78:00, Lloyd, George
(1913-1988).
A choral composition for tenor, soprano, and orchestra using the Pervigilium Veneris
as text.
o ALBANY TROY 170, ARGO 430329
Birth of Venus (1981), 5:00, Ciani, Suzanne (1946-).The
first part of Seven Waves for electronic instruments on Venus' rising from the sea.
o PRIVATE MUSIC 2046 (with her Sirens)
Sappho: Lyrical Fragments (1980), 14:30, Tavener, John (1944-).
A work for two sopranos on a series of fragments from Sappho calling upon Aphrodite to be
her ally.
o HARMONIA MUNDI 907231 ("Eternity’s Sunrise")
Aphrodite Rising (1981), 2:00, Eaton, John (1935-).
A song for soprano and flute from A Greek Vision on poems by Angelos Sikelianos
about the birth of beauty.
o INDIANA UNIVERSITY 04 (with his Ajax, Clytemnestra, From the Cave of the Sibyl)
Venus (1986), 3:30, Leeuwen, R.
A pop song about the goddess of beauty and love written for the female trio Bananarama.
o LONDON 828158 ("Greatest Hits Collection"), RAZOR & TIE 2063
("True Confessions")
A Summerfield Set (1988), 12:00, Harrison, Lou (1917-2003).
A work for solo piano on the invocation to Venus at the beginning of Lucretius' De
Rerum Natura.
o MUSICMASTERS 7051 (with his Ariadne)
Walk on Water (1990), 4:00, Cohn, Marc (1959-).
A pop song about two lovers at water's edge awaiting Venus' re-emergence from the sea.
o ATLANTIC 82178
The Flight of Aphrodite (1993), 21:00, Baker, Michael Conway (1937-).
A work for violin and chamber orchestra inspired by the goddess of love.
o SUMMIT 182 ("Hope's Journey", with his Through the Lion’s Gate)
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