Music from "Cupid and Death"

A 1653 masque by Gibbons and Locke, revived here by Anthony Rooley’s The Consort of Musicke on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi—a baroque theatrical work that alternates between courtly dances and allegorical scenes with remarkable structural ambition. Rooley’s ensemble approach emphasizes period instruments and clarity of counterpoint, letting the composers' harmonic innovations breathe across recitatives, songs, and instrumental interludes that predate Purcell’s more celebrated stage works.