Amour et Paix

Jeune Orchestre Rameau, Bruno Procopio - Guerre et Paix (2022)

Jeune Orchestre Rameau, Bruno Procopio - Guerre et Paix (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 163 MB | Cover | 30:25 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 70 MB
Classical, Opera | Label: Paraty

Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin.
Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy - André Campra: Tancrède (1990)

Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy - André Campra: Tancrède (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 545 Mb | Total time: 120'02" | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45001-2 | Recorded: 1986

A Baroque West Side Story, Tancrède tells of the absolute but impossible love between two young people brought together by their passion but separated by their origins. We are in the time of the Crusades: Tancredi is the champion of the Frankish army, and Clorinda the passionaria of the Saracen troops. In the labyrinth of sentiments, sorcerer Isménor's magic wand confuses the issues, luring the two heroes into the enchanted forest to better prepare their downfall. With Tancrède, André Campra (1660-1744) established himself as one of the great opera composers between Lully and Rameau.
Le Concert Spirituel, Les Chantes du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Hervé Niquet - Marais: Ariane et Bacchus (2023)

Le Concert Spirituel, Les Chantes du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Hervé Niquet - Marais: Ariane et Bacchus (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:06:23 | 648 / 295 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

Hervé Niquet resurrects Ariane et Bacchus (1696), using for the first time the exact performing forces and layout of the Paris Opéra orchestra in 1700 and thus giving us a historically informed version of this tragédie en musique by Marin Marais. The latter became a viol player at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1676, just as his mentor Lully’s Atys triumphed there. Lully subsequently initiated him into the skills of operatic composition, and Ariane et Bacchus was premiered nine years after the older man’s death. This production, made possible by the support of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, was performed in concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées to great acclaim in 2022, when Diapason wrote that the work was ‘deservedly rescued from oblivion’ and was ‘magnified by a sober and telling interpretation from Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel, in perfect consonance with a remarkable cast’, featuring such luminaries as Judith van Wanroij, Véronique Gens, Mathias Vidal, Hélène Carpentier, Marie Perbost, Matthieu Lécroart, David Witczak, Tomislav Lavoie and Philippe Estèphe.
Sandrine Piau, Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas - Le Triomphe De L'amour (2012)

Sandrine Piau, Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas - Le Triomphe De L'amour (2012)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 316 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 154 MB | 01:00:47
Genre: Classical | Label: Naive

After triumphant recordings of Handelian opera seria and other Italian material, soprano Sandrine Piau, France's voice of the Baroque, turns her attention to repertory that is very little known outside of France. Even in their homeland, Piau writes in the CD booklet, these arias and instrumental music are merely "not exactly virgin territory."
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (1997)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 940 Mb | Total time: 57:26+59:23+65:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0630-15517-2 | Recorded: 1995

“Christie's love-affair with Hippolyte informs every note of this mesmerising performance, transporting the listener from enchanting pastoral scenes to ominous, Stygian shores.” BBC Music Magazine
György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir - Un Opéra pour trois rois: Works by Lully, Rameau, Gluck et al. (2017)

György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir - Un Opéra pour trois rois: Works by Lully, Rameau, Gluck et al. (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 504 Mb | Total time: 47:51+43:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 924002 | Recorded: 2016

For approaching a century and a half in France – across the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI – the Palace of Versailles played host, both indoors and outdoors, for an extraordinary sequence of dramatic musical performances. Un Opéra pour trois rois, conducted by György Vashegyi, represents the legacy of that time, a specially constructed operatic entertainment drawn from works by composers from Lully to Gluck, commissioned – and even, on occasion, performed – by kings, their queens and inamoratas.
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (2011)

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 808 Mb | Total time: 56:05+57:13+54:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 477 9393 | Recorded: 1994

Hippolyte et Aricie was Rameau's first surviving lyric tragedy and is perhaps his most durable, though you wouldn't know it from the decades we had to wait for a modern recording. Now there are two: this one, conducted by Marc Minkowski, and William Christie's version on Erato. Choosing between the two is tough. Minkowski uses a smaller and probably more authentic orchestra, and with the resulting leaner sound, the performance has more of a quicksilver quality accentuated by Minkowski's penchant for swift tempos. His cast is excellent. The central lovers in the title are beautifully sung by two truly French voices, soprano Véronique Gens and especially the light, slightly nasal tenor of Jean-Paul Fourchécourt. In the pivotal role of the jealous Phèdre, Bernarda Fink is perfectly good but not in the exalted league of Christie's Lorraine Hunt. So there's no clear front-runner, but anyone interested in French Baroque opera must have at least one.
The Sixteen, La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire - Campra: Tancrede (1992)

The Sixteen, La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire - Campra: Tancrede (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:02:40 | 578 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Erato | Catalog: 2292450012

André Campra's "Tancrède" is something of a "missing link", connecting the 17th century stage works of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his frustrated rival Marc-Antoine Charpentier with the late baroque works of Jean-Philippe Rameau. "Tancrède" was given its premiere in 1702 and was repeated again and again on the Paris stage. Even in the 1760's, when Rameau's "Les Boréades" had to be abandoned because of the death of the composer, it was Campra's "Tancrède" that the directors of the Paris Opéra chose to put back on stage because of its popularity.
Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes (2014)

Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.11 Gb | Total time: 3h 22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Musiques à la Chabotterie | 605013 | Recorded: 2013

The first recording of Rameau's sublime masterwork on CD for more than 20 years: Hugo Reyne and La Simphonie du Marais present this full and original version based on souces in the library of the Paris Opera. Hugo Reyne, Nicolas Sceaux and La Simphonie du Marais have made their own edition of this seminal work, recorded in concert and rehearsal in the Vienna Konzerthaus at the Rexonzanzen Festival in January 2013.

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

Posted by ArlegZ at Feb. 17, 2024
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.