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Few things weigh as heavily in the world of classical music as Gramophone's endorsement. This recording didn't lack one. In fact, Les Fetes d'Hebe won Gramophone 1998 Best Early Opera award, joining other highly-acclaimed Les Arts Florissants recordings and cementing William Christie's fame as the principal exponent of French baroque repertory. Les Fetes d'Hebe is an example of the most popular genre in the 18th-century France - opera-ballet. It is not based on a dramatic plot, but presents a series of "entrees," each with an individual subplot and a distinct musical palette. Both vocal and orchestral numbers delight the senses. The cast is mostly composed of performers who frequently appear with Les Arts Florissants. The degree of artistic cohesion this group has achieved is remarkable…
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Long before the advent of surtitles in the opera house, success across Europe of new dramatic works depended on their plots being understood by local audiences. Such was the case for the German singspiel that is Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and when it was introduced to in Paris in 1801 it was adapted and re-titled Les Mystères d’Isis: this is the opera which Le Concert Spirituel and the Flemish Radio Choir have recorded for this new release on Glossa (Diego Fasolis conducting the ensembles in place of the then indisposed Hervé Niquet).

Sigismondo d’India, actif à Parme, Turin et Modène, fut un compositeur d’une grande originalité qui suivit partiellement et à sa manière propre la révolution monteverdienne mais aussi le sillage du chromatisme particulier des ferrarais et de Gesualdo sans côté tourmenté de ce dernier. Il apparaît comme un de ses rares successeurs.

Sylvain Cambreling is one of the leading French operatic conductors. He is known for his often startling innovations in many opera productions: in a performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the 2001 Salzburg Festival he employed a synthesizer to deliver recitative accompaniments, and at a performance of Janácek's Katya Kabanova, he used some of the composer's songs as transitional material between acts.

Massenet & Berlioz - Le Portrait de Manon - Les Nuits d' Ete (2013) {Opera Rara}
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Classical / Opera

This release features a double bill of Massenet's Le Portrait de Manon and Berlioz's song cycle Les nuits d'ete, recorded from live staged performances at the Royal Opera House with artists from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme and the Southbank Sinfonia led by Geoffrey Paterson and Volker Krafft. This is the first time the composers Massenet and Berlioz have appeared as part of the Opera Rara catalogue. The single-disc set comes with a lavishly illustrated book, including a complete libretto for Le Portrait de Manon and song translations for Les nuits d'ete, as well as detailed notes on both pieces written by the eminent musicologist Hugh Macdonald.

Julie Zenatti fait partie de ces artistes discrets, peu médiatisé, mais pourtant on ne peut plus talentueux. Elle nous livre aussi son deuxième album, qui est ce qu'on pourrait appeler la continuité de son premier album, FRAGILE. La voix cristalline de cette grande chanteuse vous transporte tout au long des pages du disques, que ce soit dans des ballades très douces, ou sur des chansons plus "chaloupées"(comme le dit Julie). Le son est superbe, on l'impression d'être parfois dans un concert "piano-voix", mais pour les amateurs de guitares, rassurez-vous, vous en trouverez plein l'album.

Ensemble Les Surprises - Rebel de père en fils: Jean-Féry Rebel & François Rebel (2013) {Ambronay AMY303}
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Classical / Baroque / Chamber Music

Marrying stage 'drama' and chamber 'concert', this debut album from Les Surprises, devised by Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Juliette Guignard, draws on 18th century French opera. Exploring a dynamic repertoire variously familiar and forgotten, bringing theatre into the salon, these enlightened, intimate arrangements will astonish, inspire and surprise.