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Les Dominos; Les Agremens - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Pour un reposoir; Noels sur les instruments; Sonate a huit (2013)

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Les Dominos; Les Agremens - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Pour un reposoir; Noels sur les instruments; Sonate a huit (2013)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Pour un reposoir; Noëls sur les instruments; Sonate à huit (2013)
Les Dominos; Les Agrémens; Florence Malgoire, director

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 360 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 174 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC338 | Time: 01:14:54

The instrumental works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier are familiar to very few people. A large number of them were composed for use in churches, the most famous of these being the Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues that has already been recorded by Jean Tubéry and La Fenice for Ricercar (RIC 245). Charpentier composed the Sonate à huit around 1685, at a time when various private musical societies were exploring the Italian sonata style. Charpentier discovered this style at the same time as François Couperin, who also set about composing sonatas in the Italian style. Charpentier’s Sonate à huit blends the Italian style with the French suite of dances and as such is one of the masterpieces of instrumental music of the French baroque. The symphonies Pour un Reposoir were intended to accompany an outdoor procession, an organ naturally not being available. The greater part of the CD, however, is taken up by the Noëls pour les Instruments which Charpentier set for instrumental ensemble and organ. We have also recorded the original versions of the above-mentioned Christmas carols, complete with their many verses as they appeared in French collections published at the beginning of the 18th century. This recording of Christmas music can be enjoyed throughout the year!

Christophe Rousset, Florence Malgoire - Mondonville: Pièces de Clavecin en Sonates avec Accompagnement de Violon (1990)

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Christophe Rousset, Florence Malgoire - Mondonville: Pièces de Clavecin en Sonates avec Accompagnement de Violon (1990)

Christophe Rousset, Florence Malgoire - Mondonville: Pièces de Clavecin en Sonates avec Accompagnement de Violon (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 361 Mb | Total time: 60:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pierre Verany | # PV 790093 | Recorded: 1990

« Pour le mélomane d’aujourd’hui, ces Sonates de l’Oeuvre III, élégantes comme un conte de Diderot, une toile de Boucher ou une « folie » en style rocaille des environs de Paris, demeurent un précieux témoignage du goût d’un public esthète et exigeant qui, ne l’oublions pas, faisait l’admiration et l’envie de la plupart des cours d’Europe. » (Christophe Rousset)

Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy - George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (1995)

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Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy - George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (1995)

Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy - George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,97 Gb | Total time: 71:41+76:53+71:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Astrée Auvidis | # E 8558 | Recorded: 1995

Giulio Cesare proved by far the most popular of Handel’s operas, both originally and in modern revivals. Its straightforward plot and all-star original cast drew from Handel exceptional depth and subtlety in musical characterisation and lavish orchestral colours; Cleopatra’s seductive stage orchestra – harp, theorbo and viola da gamba with muted accompaniment from the pit – is unique. René Jacobs set the standard in 1991 (on Harmonia Mundi). By comparison, this is milder, more pensive. Bowman is superbly flexible – he seems to become ever more fluent over the years – yet less powerful and imperious than Jennifer Larmore, the earlier.