{"id":12076,"date":"2025-01-29T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aam.co.uk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=12076"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:51:14","slug":"john-weldon-the-judgment-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/aam.co.uk\/new\/product\/john-weldon-the-judgment-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"John Weldon: The Judgment of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Beautifully recorded ... not only is this a set to treasure, it has the most engaging and comprehensive set of booklet essays you\u2019ll find in a midsummer day\u2019s march.\u2019 <em>Editor\u2019s Choice,<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/limelight-arts.com.au\/reviews\/weldon-the-judgment-of-paris-academy-of-ancient-music-julian-perkins\/\"><em>Limelight Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Perkins gets enormous buy-in from his band, made up of top Early Music instrumentalists. The drama<br \/>\nof their drunken slides, caressing soft lines and rollicking compound rhythms at times wittily exceeds that of vocal parts. The power and precision of the chorus conveys the shock of Weldon's textural contrasts. But the palm must go to Perkins himself, whose conducting brings out the finest details of Weldon's beautiful, tongue-in-cheek and previously unrecorded score.\u2019\u00a0<em>BBC Music Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sparkling playing from the Academy of Ancient Music under Perkins.\u2019\u00a0<em>Gramophone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Perkins\u2019s performance with AAM and the Cambridge Handel Opera Company is in all ways <em>a <\/em><em>winner\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 an exceptional (and exceptionally well-recorded) performance worthy of a listen. Wonderfully, the physical CD of this short, 75-minute work is packaged with an informative 70-page booklet.\u2019\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlymusicamerica.org\/web-articles\/and-the-winner-is-john-weldons-the-judgment-of-paris\/\">Early Music America<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>AAM and Cambridge Handel Opera Company (CHOC) follow their Gramophone-nominated recording of Eccles\u2019 <i>Semele<\/i> with a world-premiere recording of John Weldon\u2019s masque <i>The Judgment of Paris<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1700 the Earl of Halifax decided England needed all-sung opera. He offered a \u2018Musick Prize\u2019 of 100 guineas for the best setting of the libretto of <i>The Judgement of Paris<\/i> by William Congreve, with entries by composers like John Eccles and Daniel Purcell. Weldon\u2019s setting, which won the competition but was never published, is recorded here for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Released as a hardback mediabook, the CD is accompanied by a host of fascinating essays written specially by historians, musicologists and other experts \u2013 finally giving this winning masque the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n<h3>Praise for <a href=\"https:\/\/aam.co.uk\/product\/john-eccles-semele\/\">Eccles: Semele<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 The Guardian<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Astonishing playing\u2019<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Opera Magazine<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Simply unmissable\u2019<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Opera Now<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Entrancing\u2019<\/em> Gramophone Awards 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academy of Ancient Music<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Cambridge Handel Opera<\/strong><i><br \/>\n<\/i><strong>Julian Perkins<\/strong>\u00a0<em>director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Walker | Jonathan Brown | Helen Charlston<br \/>\nKitty Whately | Anna Dennis | Anna Cavaliero | Aksel Rykkvin<\/p>\n<p>1 CD in hardback booklet<\/p>\n<p>Released 7 March 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.fuga.com\/aamcambridgehandelopera_weldonthejudgmentofparis\">\ud83c\udfa7 Also available to stream and download.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11924,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[32],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12076","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cd","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Weldon: The Judgment of Paris &#8211; 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