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Gaétan Jarry, Chœur & Orchestre Marguerite Louise - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Grands Motets (2022)

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Gaétan Jarry, Chœur & Orchestre Marguerite Louise - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Grands Motets (2022)

Gaétan Jarry, Chœur & Orchestre Marguerite Louise - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Grands Motets (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 416 Mb | Total time: 77:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS 052 | Recorded: 2021

Although celebrated for opera and harpsichord in his fifties, Rameau had formerly been first and foremost a master of sacred music. These works, composed between 1712 and 1721 when he was in his thirties, are marvels of balance, fully bearing the seeds of the splendor that Rameau would later display on the Parisian opera scene. In the French tradition of Lully and Lalande, which places the sacred text at the heart of a sumptuous musical performance, this complete set of Rameau's Motets is performed with jubilation and grace by the soloists, the choir and the Marguerite Louise Orchestra under the inspired direction of Gaétan Jarry.

Gaétan Jarry, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Mozart : Bastien Et Bastienne - Pergolese : La Servante Maitresse (2023)

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Gaétan Jarry, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Mozart : Bastien Et Bastienne - Pergolese : La Servante Maitresse (2023)

Gaétan Jarry, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Adèle Carlier, Marc Scoffoni & David Tricou - Mozart : Bastien Et Bastienne - Pergolese : La Servante Maitresse (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 404 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 206 Mb | 01:29:15
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

In 1733, Pergolesi created La Serva padrona in Naples, which won over Paris in 1752, becoming the symbol of Italian music. Quickly played in French as La Servante Maitresse, it inspired Rousseau for his Devin du Village, a parody of which was created under the title Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne. Mozart discovered it in 1768 and composed his Bastien und Bastienne in German for the private theatre of the magician Mesmer. These two masterpieces bound through style and history come to life with colourful plots: lightness, falsehoods and what is comic create delightfully bubbly situations for the tyrannical servant and naive shepherds, from which Pergolesi and Mozart derived the best musical effects. Adele Carlier, David Tricou and Marc Scoffoni, with the Opera Royal Orchestra and Gaetan Jarry, carry this torch of emotion and comedy, so emblematic of the 18th century.

Gaétan Jarry, Chœur et Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Handel, Purcell: The Crown - Coronation Anthems (2023)

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Gaétan Jarry, Chœur et Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Handel, Purcell: The Crown - Coronation Anthems (2023)

Gaétan Jarry, Chœur et Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Handel, Purcell: The Crown - Coronation Anthems (2023)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 355 Mb | Total time: 59:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS110 | Recorded: 2022

To mark the Coronation of King Charles III, we have brought together the most famous pieces of music from the coronations of James II in 1685 and George II in 1727. The masterpieces by Purcell and Handel display an extraordinarily evocative force: their “Grand Style” put a magnificent stamp on the Ceremonial of the Crown of England. Drum rolls and glorious trumpet fanfares herald the acclamations of Westminster: God Save the King!

Gaétan Jarry, Marguerite Louise - Lully & Moliere: George Dandin; La Grotte de Versailles (2020)

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Gaétan Jarry, Marguerite Louise - Lully & Moliere: George Dandin; La Grotte de Versailles (2020)

Gaétan Jarry, Marguerite Louise - Lully & Moliere: George Dandin; La Grotte de Versailles (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 435 Mb | Total time: 78:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS027 | Recorded: 2020

It was on July 18, 1668 that Moliere successfully performed George Dandin ou le mari confundu, a play mixed with a sung pastoral, for "Le Grand Divertissement Royal de Versailles" offered by Louis XIV to his Court, as a celebration of the Peace of Aachen. This amusing story of a rich peasant who purchases a young noble girl includes interludes set to the splendid music of Lully. The same year sees the promising meeting between Lully and Quinault: together they write for King La Grotte de Versailles, in which Louis is glorified, and dances in person the role of a nymph. These two works, symbolic of the creative vigor of the early days of Versailles, and of the artistic appetite of a thirty-year-old Sovereign, are brought back to life thanks to Gaetan Jarry and Marguerite Louise, with incomparable taste: tambourines, flutes and musettes are part of the festivities and the trumpets proclaim the glory of Louis. Here we have a scintillating echo of the sumptuous festivities given at Versailles by Louis XIV!

Florie Valiquette, Nicholas Scott, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal & Gaétan Jarry - La Captive du Sérail (2022)

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Florie Valiquette, Nicholas Scott, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal & Gaétan Jarry - La Captive du Sérail (2022)

Florie Valiquette, Nicholas Scott, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal & Gaétan Jarry - La Captive du Sérail (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 317 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:02:07
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

Here are the Oriental Turqueries galantes of the Opera Comique, where the lovers are captured by Corsairs and held as prisoners: the Harem for the Belle and the galleys for her knight… These enslaved Christians captivated the artistic imagination, which mixed the Thousand and One Nights and slave traders in amorous intrigues where the Sultan is deceived in his Seraglio! The young soprano Florie Valiquette embodies these captive heroines, marked by love, despair and courage, while Gaetan Jarry offers the Orchestre de l'Opera Royal the bright colours and frenzied rhythms of Oriental fantasy, from Gretry to Mozart!

Gaétan Jarry, Les Pages du CMBV - Noëls Baroques à Versailles (2019)

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Gaétan Jarry, Les Pages du CMBV - Noëls Baroques à Versailles (2019)

Gaétan Jarry, Les Pages du CMBV - Noëls Baroques à Versailles (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 354 Mb | Total time: 70:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS025 | Recorded: 2019

A Noel is a French Christmas carol, and the ones here are sung by Les Pages du CMBV (Centre Musique Baroque de Versailles), a children's choir. Their voices do not soar, but they are not the stars of the show. Instead, the album is part of a series called L'age d'or de l'orgue français, and the main attraction is organist Gaétan Jarry, and even more so, the 1710 organ at the Versailles chapel. It's a marvelous instrument, clear in all registers, lively, and bracing. The composer-organists here are largely unknown today, at least outside France, but hearing these works, the listener may understand why crowd control police had to show up for performance by the likes of Claude Balbastre (1724-1799). Jarry performs the Noels with the choir singing verses in alternation with the organ.

Mathias Vidal, Gaétan Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise - Rameau Triomphant (2021)

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Mathias Vidal, Gaétan Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise - Rameau Triomphant (2021)

Mathias Vidal, Gaétan Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise - Rameau Triomphant (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 448 Mb | Total time: 77:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS039 | Recorded: 2020

Master of 18th-century French opera, Rameau wrote for the stage for three decades (1733-1764). His thirty or so operatic works give considerable space to the haute-contre voice, the quintessence of most of the title roles: Platée, Dardanus, Hippolyte, Pygmalion… Mathias Vidal, a brilliant representative of this haute-contre tessitura, is one of its foremost specialists. Having sung the majority of Rameau’s operas on stage, he is an obvious paradigm for their characters. Together with Gaétan Jarry, he has conceived a programme of the most dazzling and expressive arias, to which have been added scenes accompanied by a chorus.

Gaétan Jarry - Le Grand Jeu: French Baroque Organ Favourites (2020)

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Gaétan Jarry - Le Grand Jeu: French Baroque Organ Favourites (2020)

Gaétan Jarry - Le Grand Jeu: French Baroque Organ Favourites (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 65:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS024 | Recorded: 2019

This is a sort of self-portrait of the Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, delivering all its aspects, enhanced by the choice of a repertoire emblematic of the baroque era: the major classic French organ works (Couperin, Marchand, de Grigny, Corrette) composed to glorify the very specific aesthetics of instruments like that of Louis XIV's Chapel; but also to reveal its other sound riches, transcriptions of chefs d'oeuvres, from Le Sommeil d'Atys by Lully, to the contredanses of Rameau's Boréades. To add a new dimension to the organ's sound universe and to enhance its orchestral qualities, modern editing and "re-recording" processes were gently used to serve the superposition of musical voices, as if invisible hands filled in for the organist in certain works, which are true Proust's "madeleines" for Gaétan Jarry. He goes all out to play the instrument of Versailles "for the Glory of God and the King"!

Gaétan Jarry, Marguerite Louise - Lully, Couperin, Delalande: Messe du Roi Soleil (2019)

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Gaétan Jarry, Marguerite Louise - Lully, Couperin, Delalande: Messe du Roi Soleil (2019)

Gaétan Jarry, Marguerite Louise - Lully, Couperin, Delalande: Messe du Roi Soleil (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 53:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | CVS008 | Recorded: 2018

The Sun King’s Mass was without doubt one of the privileged rites for the standing glory of the sovereign, as much because of its splendour, as for its ceremonial aspect, which brings time to a halt, solidifying the eternal image of royal power. The greatest composers of the kingdom distinguished themselves by making the holy service a veritable heavenly concert. The bell rang, the fifes and drums announced the arrival of the king in the gallery, the organ burst forth, the Grands Motets by Lully and Delalande enthralled under the golden vaults, the delicate and intimate petits motets by Couperin appear with grace in the alcoves of the Royal Chapel…