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French composer (1649-1709)
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2023-09-14 06:23:00
Tragédie lyrique given with great sympathy and style: Passion from Véronique Gens with Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
[…] September 2023 in the splendour of the Ordenskirche St Georgen, Bayreuth. Véronique Gens was joined by an instrumental ensemble of eleven, directed from the harpsichord and organ by Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas with a vocal ensemble of five.Divided into five acts, each with a theme, the programme explored Lully's music from Persée, Proserpine, Armide, Atys, Amadis, Alceste along with his dance music, plus Henry Desmarest's Circé and La Diane de Fontainebleau, André Cardinal Destouches' Les Elements, Pascal Collasse's Achille et Polyxène and Thétis et Pélée, Rebel's Le Ballet de la Paix and Charpentier's Médée. Each act flowed continuously in the manner of a tragédie lyrique, with Gens' solos focusing on a series of strong women.Act One, Malheuerese Mère, began with the overture to Lully's Persée, the band small but strong in sound and making the music vividly involving. Then a fluidly expressive account of the elegant passacaille from Desmarest's Circé, with the sequence closing with music from […]
2022-03-21 10:26:03
Le Destin du nouveau: a hitherto unknown opera-ballet by André Campra provides a glimpse into the largest Jesuit teaching institution in Paris, and some engaging music
[…] Louis-le-Grand, one of the biggest Jesuit institutions in Paris and where theatre was regarded as a suitable teaching tool for future public leaders who would need the skills of public speaking, recitation and dance. For the opera-ballet, it is probable that dancers from the school (aged 8 to 16) were partnered by professional musicians and singers. Unfortunately, almost nothing is preserved of the works written for the college by composers such as Campra, Charpentier and Collasse, all we have is a few programmes. So it is all the more remarkable that, when in 2015 research was being done in the National Archives in Paris towards an educational project, the score identified as a possible one for the project which lay in a hitherto relatively obscure collection in Saint Denis, turned out to be the score of Campra's Le Destin du nouveau siècle. There are, however, several questions hanging over the surviving […]
2021-09-17 15:15:41
Review: Passions – Véronique Gens, Soprano
Soprano Véronique Gens in a sequence of works by Lully, Collasse and Desmarets, forming "an imaginative opera". The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
2017-07-28 01:00:00
I have gladly helped the generous Fasch finding recordings by La Bande des Hautbois du Roi. There is some ceremonial music from France, Germany and England in the first disc. Then some suites by Lully and his disciple Collasse, played on wind instruments, coupled with later French concertos. Two discs feature Paolo Tognon as a soloist: sonatas by Boismortier (more from him here on MIMIC) and by Merci, an Englishman. "Ceremonial Court Music in the XVII and XVIII Centuries" Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Suite in C major Johann Philipp Krieger (1649-1725) Partita No. 1 from Lustige Feld-Musik James Paisible (?-1721) The Queen's Farewell from The Sprightly Companion Louis Lully (1664-1734) Suite from Zèphire et Flore Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716) Suite in D minor André Danican Philidor (1647-1730) Marche du Régiment de la Calotte La Bande des Hautbois du Roi Paolo Tognon Nuova Era 7286 (1997) [flac, cue, log, scans]. Courtesy […]
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