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Hervé Niquet, Orchestre de chambre de Paris - Fromental Halévy: La Reine de Chypre (2018)

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Hervé Niquet, Orchestre de chambre de Paris - Fromental Halévy: La Reine de Chypre (2018)

Hervé Niquet, Orchestre de chambre de Paris - Fromental Halévy: La Reine de Chypre (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 748 Mb | Total time: 73:37+79:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ediciones Singulares | # ES10328RSK | Recorded: 2017

Berlioz wrote of Halévy’s La Reine de Chypre (1841): ‘Its success will at least equal that of La Juive. And Wagner added: ‘It is in La Reine de Chypre that Halévy’s new style has appeared with the most brilliance and success.’ So several voices – and those by no means insignificant – have declared this work, written six years after La Juive, to be its composer’s masterpiece. Premiered on 22 December 1841, Halévy’s opera offered the limelight to Rosine Stoltz in the title role: she was the only woman in the cast, for it had been found preferable to isolate her, following her incessant disputes with the other female singers in the company.

Véronique Gens, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Hervé Niquet - Paysage (2024)

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Véronique Gens, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Hervé Niquet - Paysage (2024)

Véronique Gens, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Hervé Niquet - Paysage (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 251 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 131 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:56:22
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics

In this recital, Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet bring back to life a neglected aspect of France’s Romantic heritage: songs with orchestral accompaniment. Aside from a few pieces by Debussy and Duparc, and Berlioz’s famous Nuits d’été, orchestral mélodies form a virtually forgotten continent. In collaboration with the specialists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Alpha Classics now revisits these musical landscapes, taking us from Brittany (Hahn) to Persia, whose beauties Fauré and Saint-Saëns exalt in very different ways. Mélodies by Chausson, Gounod and Dubois and rarely heard instrumental pieces by Massenet, Fauré and Fernand de La Tombelle round out the journey with their musical reveries.

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Antoine Dauvergne: Hercule mourant (2012)

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Antoine Dauvergne: Hercule mourant (2012)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Antoine Dauvergne: Hercule mourant (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 725 Mb | Total time: 59:09+79:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Aparté | # AP042 | Recorded: 2011

Following on the international success of their recording of Lully's Bellerophon, Christophe Rousset and his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques present Hercule mourant (Hercules Dying) - an undiscovered operatic treasure by Antoine Dauvergne. When Francoeur and Rebel took over as directors of the Academie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) in 1757, they decided to promote some of the new generation of composers. Among them was Dauvergne, who appears to have enjoyed great favor at that time. Premiered in 1762, Hercule mourant was a success, receiving eighteen performances.

Hector Berlioz: The Complete Works [27CDs] (2019)

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Hector Berlioz: The Complete Works [27CDs] (2019)

Hector Berlioz: The Complete Works [27CDs] (2019)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 7,86 Gb | Total time: 31:24:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 9029561444 | Recorded: 1901-2018

Hector Berlioz, France’s greatest Romantic composer, exemplifies the spirit of his age – yet his genius was also ahead of its time. Reflecting his colourful life, his music is astonishing for its originality and ambition, and for orchestration of groundbreaking brilliance. This, the first-ever complete Berlioz edition, comprises carefully selected recordings and even includes works completely new to the catalogue. The accompanying booklet, lavishly illustrated, contains a fascinating commentary from Berlioz biographer David Cairns, whose words bring the composer’s music still more vividly to life.

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (1989)

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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (1989)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 785 Mb | Total time: 64:48+63:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901308.09 | Recorded: 1989

On the strength of the immense success of Dido & Aeneas and King Arthur, in 1692 Purcell went on to produce The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. The work is, in fact, a ‘semi-opera’, or ‘opera with dialogue’, in which only some of the crucial scenes are provided with music. But this version of A Midsummer-Night’s Dream by the ‘Orpheus Britannicus’ became almost as famous as the play that inspired it, with its love scenes, its supernatural scenes and its innate sense of musical humour investing it with an irresistible savour and enchantment.This title was released for the first time in 1989.

Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore (2012)

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Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore (2012)

Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 669 Mb | Total time: 79:06+57:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 580/1-2 | Recorded: 2007

The opera opened in 1786, the same year as Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro , and both were revived in Vienna three years later. In the revival of Il bubero di buon cuore , since Martín y Soler was then in the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Mozart wrote two new arias for Madama Lucilla. “Chi sa qual sia l’affano” and “Vado, ma dove, o Dei?,” which are beautifully sung on this recording by Véronique Gens, the first aria on CD 1, track 18, and the second on CD 2, track 4.

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Charles Gounod: Faust (2019)

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Charles Gounod: Faust (2019)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Charles Gounod: Faust (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 836 Mb | Total time: 55:59+49:57+68:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bru Zane | # BZ1037 | Recorded: 2018

The masterpiece of French opera – Gounod’s ‘Faust‘ – still has surprises in store for us. Originally conceived in the spirit of opéra-comique, the 1859 score alternated between spoken dialogue and music, intermingling witty comedy and Romantic pathos. It is that ‘first Faust’ that the Palazzetto Bru Zane reveals in this recording, and particularly the many numbers that were subsequently deleted or altered.

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Marin Marais: Alcyone (1990)

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Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Marin Marais: Alcyone (1990)

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Marin Marais: Alcyone (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 796 Mb | Total time: 53:56+47:15+54:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45522-2 | Recorded: 1990

Marin Marais (1656-1728)est ajourd'hui célèbre grâce au fabuleux corpus de pièces pour violes de gambe qu'il nous a laissé et qui ont été remises à l'honneur avec le célèbre film "Tous les matins du monde" et les disques de Jordi Savall Mais Marais a aussi écrit 4 opéras dont Alcione, le meilleur d'entre eux.
Avant son enregistrement, celui-ci avait la réputation d'être digne des chefs-d'oeuvre de Lully et annonciateur des splendeurs ramistes, mais pour certains figé dans les règles passéistes du grand style français et refusant malencontreusement les harmonies italianisantes chères à Campra et Charpentier.

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacreon, Le Berger fidele (1996)

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Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacreon, Le Berger fidele (1996)

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon, Le Berger fidèle (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 56:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 449 211-2 | Recorded: 1995

There are two different short operas (from 1754 and 1757) by Rameau with the title Anacréon. Both are one-act actes de ballet; this one was actually used as the third entrée of Rameau's opéra-ballet Les surprises de l'Amour when it was revived the same year. Both works have as their subject the Greek poet, Anacreon. The 1757 one - which was first performed at the Paris Opéra in May of that year and has a libretto by Pierre-Joseph Justin Bernard - has an only marginally less slight ‘plot’ than the earlier Anacréon. It follows an argument as to the relative merits of love and wine. That’s resolved in Anacreon’s favour by L’Amour; in fact, he believes the two are not incompatible.

Veronique Gens, Les Basses Reunies - George Frideric Handel: Lucrezia, Armida abbandonata, Agrippina condotta a morire (1999)

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Veronique Gens, Les Basses Reunies - George Frideric Handel: Lucrezia, Armida abbandonata, Agrippina condotta a morire (1999)

Véronique Gens, Les Basses Réunies - George Frideric Handel: Lucrezia, Armida abbandonata, Agrippina condotta a morire (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 52:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 45283 2 | Recorded: 1996, 1997

Véronique Gens's intense soprano shines in this program of tragic cantatas about a trio of fatally wronged Roman heroines written by the twentysomething Handel during his triumphant Italian sojourn. Here, luckless Lucrezia and abandoned Armida vacillate between love and hate for the men who wronged them and agitated Agrippina rages against the son who condemned her to death, the Emperor Nero. Gens is with these wracked souls all the way, bending her lovely voice to capture the verbal nuances of the texts; listen, for example, how she deadens her tone for Agrippina's "A me sol giunga la morte." Throughout, she stays within the stylistic frame of historically informed performance practices, as do her excellent accompanists.

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)

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Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 753 Mb | Total time: 165:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 891 | Recorded: 2022

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) left two very different versions of his tragédie en musique Zoroastre: the first, in 1749, suffered from cabals and the work was withdrawn from the repertory. Rameau gave it a thoroughgoing revision in 1756. At this time, he was at the height of his powers. Melody, harmony, orchestration and choral writing no longer held any secrets for him. Zoroastre brought still further innovation. For the first time, he dispensed with a prologue, and turned the overture into a philosophical ‘programme’, the struggle between day and night, between good and evil. The 1749 version is entirely governed by avant-garde ideas; Zoroastre resembles Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, but two generations earlier. This disconcerted some of the audience: Zoroastre was a moral, social and philosophical opera.

Véronique Gens, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Francis Poulenc: La Voix humaine (2022)

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Véronique Gens, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Francis Poulenc: La Voix humaine (2022)

Véronique Gens, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Francis Poulenc: La Voix humaine (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 70:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 899 | Recorded: 2021

La version de Véronique Gens de La Voix humaine est très attendue ! Cette « tragédie lyrique en un acte » est faite pour elle, son sens du verbe et son intensité dramatique sont au rendez-vous de ce monologue composé par Poulenc en 1958, sur un texte de Jean Cocteau. On est bien loin ici du Poulenc « léger » des années 1920. Cocteau lui fait d’ailleurs le plus beau des compliments : « Cher Francis, tu as fixé, une fois pour toutes, la façon de dire mon texte. » Véronique Gens confie avoir toujours voulu interpréter et enregistrer cette pièce ; c’est maintenant chose faite avec ses complices de l’Orchestre National de Lille et de son directeur musical, Alexandre Bloch. Également présente sur l’album, la Sinfonietta, qui est en fait une véritable symphonie, mais, comme l’écrit Nicolas Southon, « il est indéniable que l’œuvre – commandée par la BBC à Poulenc en 1947 - possède une fraîcheur et une liberté de ton qui justifient son titre ».

Philippe Herreweghe, Chœur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale, La Chapelle Royale - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide (1993)

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Philippe Herreweghe, Chœur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale, La Chapelle Royale - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide (1993)

Philippe Herreweghe, Chœur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale, La Chapelle Royale - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 784 Mb | Total time: 78:42+77:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901 456.57 | Recorded: 1992

Cinq ans après Atys, Armide grâce à la sensibilité de Philippe Herreweghe est l’objet d’un accomplissement rare. Depuis Cadmus (1673), Lully travaille la déclamation chantée dont le meilleur exemple ici est dans les nombreuses langueurs qui étreignent le cour d’Armide, le célèbre « Enfin il est en ma puissance » (II,4), modèle de l’art lullyste, cité par Rameau pendant la Querelle des Bouffons (1753). Voici la seconde approche de l’ouvrage par le chef flamand. La lisibilité de la progression dramatique est assurée par la définition d’un orchestre, précis, fascinant, véritable acteur. Outre Acis (passacaille finale), ouvrage ultime, aucune ouvre à part Armide, n’exprime à ce degré, l’émotivité instrumentale de Lully.

Ulf Schirmer, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Cinq-Mars (2016)

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Ulf Schirmer, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Cinq-Mars (2016)

Ulf Schirmer, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Cinq-Mars (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 626 Mb | Total time: 76:49+61:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ediciones Singulares | # ES1024 | Recorded: 2015

Alfred de Vigny’s Cinq-Mars, published in 1826, is regarded as the first great historical novel in French. The action is set in the seventeenth century: the Marquis de Cinq-Mars gains the esteem of King Louis XIII by organising a movement of opposition to Cardinal Richelieu. But manipulations, betrayals and plots force the monarch to abandon his champion and allow Richelieu to triumph and condemn Cinq-Mars and his friend De Thou to death. It was at the request of the director of the Opéra-Comique Léon Carvalho, attracted by the idea of a musical setting of the novel, that Gounod agreed to return to the forefront of the operatic scene in 1877, after an absence of ten years.

Sébastien d'Hérin, Les Nouveaux Caractères - Henry Desmarest: Circé (2023)

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Sébastien d'Hérin, Les Nouveaux Caractères - Henry Desmarest: Circé (2023)

Sébastien d'Hérin, Les Nouveaux Caractères - Henry Desmarest: Circé (2023)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 734 Mb | Total time: 155:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS085 | Recorded: 2022

Desmarest was something of a frustrated genius. A precocious musician, he had a great career on opera from 1693 to 1698. His destiny was broken when he kidnapped the love of his life and fled to Brussels to escape a death sentence. Kapellmeister to the King of Spain, Philippe V in 1701, then to the Duke of Lorraine, Paris remained off-limits to him until 1720 … Circé (1694) was his apotheosis, meeting of Ulysses and the sorcerers, a superb and supernatural heroine. The dramatic force of the work stimulates the flamboyant Véronique Gens who plays the evil lover!