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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2021)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 642 Mb | Total time: 53:34+68:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS037 | Recorded: 2019

An ancient hero, a dragon, a young goddess: love and glory are at the heart of Lullys first opera, first performed in front of Louis XIV. As in his previous works - divertissements, ballets de cour and comédies- ballets - Lully makes the voices and the orchestra sparkle, multiplying the pieces which stand out and that were appealing to the court. But with the help of the librettist Philippe Quinault, he introduced the dramatic force of French classical tragédie in an exclusively musical work: and here the audience was bewitched by the mythical love stories so sumptuously portrayed.
VA - Les grandes eaux musicales de Versailles (2017 Edition) (2017)

VA - Les grandes eaux musicales de Versailles (2017 Edition)
Classical, Vocal | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 66:37 min | 383 MB
Label: Alpha | Tracks: 19 | Rls.date: 2017

Alpha invites you to prolong the pleasure of your visit to Versailles with this recording of the music you heard in the gardens : A selection of great works played by some of the finest musicians of today. Almost two centuries of music, reviving the fabulous history of the palace up to mid-eighteen century and representing opera, ballet, the air de cour and other genres, are performed here by Le Poème Harmonique (conductor Vincent Dumestre), Pygmalion (conductor Raphaël Pichon), Le Concert Spirituel (conductor Hervé Niquet), Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra (conductor Skip Sempé), les Nouveaux Caractères (conductor Sébastien d Hérin, l Orchestre des Temps présents (conductor Olivier Schneebeli). You'll also discover some excerpts from Campra's Tancrède and Leclair's Scylla & Glaucus.
Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti - François Joseph Gossec: Le Triomphe de la République (2006)

Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti - François Joseph Gossec: Le Triomphe de la République (2006)
EAC | APE | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 72:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0727 | Recorded: 2002

Gossec made an important contribution to the development of French symphonic music and played a central role in Parisian musical life for almost three-quarters of a century. The opera 'Le Triomphe de la République' was composed in 1793 folowing the French Revolution and wonderfully demonstrates the musical movement that France experienced following the change in political climate. Music was recognized as a medium for the diffusion of new ideas and 'Le Triomphe de la République' was a case in point. It was written in the wake of popular enthusiasm at the news of the army's victory at the battle of Vlamy in 1792 against the anti-French troops led by the Duke of Brunswick. It features folk music and popular dances of the day reflecting a kind of life quite distinct from that of intellectual, aristocratic society.
Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Le Tribut de Zamora (2018)

Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Le Tribut de Zamora (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 753 Mb | Total time: 73:44+67:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bru Zane | # BZ1033 | Recorded: 2018

After Polyeucte (1878), Gounod tackled the operatic genre for the last time in 1881 with what is probably his most ambitious work, Le Tribut de Zamora. The action takes place in ninth-century Spain – from Act Two onwards, on ‘a picturesque site on the banks of the Guadalquivir before Córdoba’. Here Gounod – finally noted more for his neoclassical pastiches (Le Médecin malgré lui and Cinq-Mars) and his ardent Romanticism (Faust and Roméo et Juliette) – was given an opportunity to display his talents as an orchestrator and colourist in an exotic setting. He produced an epic in the tradition of French grand opéra, with numerous ensembles and showpiece airs.
Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Lully: Alceste (2017)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Lully: Alceste (2017)
Classical, Opera | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 794 MB
Label: Aparté | Tracks: 52 | Time: 150:29 min

A masterpiece born of the collaboration of composer Lully and his librettist Quinault, the “tragédie en musique” called Alceste caused a scandal when it was created in 1674. The tragic register was reserved for the theater, while the music was content with the comic vein. But thanks to the combined talents of Lully and Quinault, the stage of the Royal Academy of Music saw the development of the new tragic and lyrical genre.
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Marin Marais: Alcione (2020)

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Marin Marais: Alcione (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 941 Mb | Total time: 60:16+54:20+61:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alia Vox | # AVSA 9939 | Recorded: 2017

Marais's Alcione is the last great 'tragedy' in music from the reign of Louis XIV. It is a total spectacle at the crossroads of the 17th and 18th centuries, from which it takes the mythological source, it's praise of the sovereign's glory and the literary requirement to combine choreography and stage movements. Jordi Savall rediscovered this work and brought it back to life for the first stage production in Paris since 1771.

VA - Ravel - Les Chefs-d'œuvre (2025)  Music

Posted by Rtax at March 19, 2025
VA - Ravel - Les Chefs-d'œuvre (2025)

VA - Ravel - Les Chefs-d'œuvre (2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 2.8 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.7 GB
12:53:42 | Classical | Label: Diapason

Many thanks to Bertrand Boissard and Laurent Muraro for sifting through Ravel's piano recordings. In Gaspard de la nuit, Bertrand Boissard chose Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in concert in Prague on 29 May 1960, a performance he described as ‘by far the most devastating, much faster and more committed than in London in 1959, and perhaps the most impressive of all’. In Le Tombeau de Couperin, the second set his sights on Samson François in 1958 for ‘his unbridled imagination, and what a Toccata, my God!
Les Paladins & Jérôme Correas - Molière at the Opera (Stage music by Jean-Baptiste Lully) (2016)

Les Paladins & Jérôme Correas - Molière at the Opera (Stage music by Jean-Baptiste Lully) (2016)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:12:21 | 168 MB
Label: Glossa

With 'Molière à l opéra' Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins bring their much-admired combination of Baroque stylishness and varied vocal techniques to comédies-ballets composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marc-Antoine Charpentier during the reign of Louis XIV. The musical and theatrical partnership involving Lully and Molière they were dubbed 'les deux Baptiste' was one of the most invigorating ever entered into, marrying melody, words, acting and a shared hunger for fame. The collaboration spanned ten works over a decade from 1661.

Sophie Pelletier - Les météores (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at July 12, 2017
Sophie Pelletier - Les météores (2017)

Sophie Pelletier - Les météores
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, front cover | 39:46 min | 260 MB
Label: UniForce Productions Inc. – UPCD-1041 | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2017
French Pop, Chanson

Sophie Pelletier lancera à la fin avril son 2e album solo. Il s’intitulera : Les météores. Le 21 avril prochain, l’artiste native de Rivière-Ouelle sera sur la scène de la Salle André-Gagnon de La Pocatière pour présenter un spectacle de lancement, accompagnée de quatre musiciens.
Jean-Michel Hasler, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges - Campra: Les Festes Venitiennes; Destouches: Les Elements (1999)

Jean-Michel Hasler, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges - Campra: Les Festes Vénitiennes; Destouches: Les Éléments, Le Carnaval et la Folie (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 330 Mb | Total time: 62:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Lyrinx | # CD 069 | Recorded: 1986

Loin des sentiers battus, entre les grands Français Lully et Rameau en passant par Couperin, il y a de la place pour des personnalités comme celles de Campra et Destouches. Les trois suites d’orchestre (datées du début du xviiie siècle) rassemblées ici sont tirées d’opéras ballets, genre musical particulièrement à la mode à la cour de Versailles. Successeur du ballet de cour et très longtemps avant les Ballets russes, la danse était au cœur du geste baroque. Que ce soit par l’escrime ou par les mouvements des danseurs, il y a bien cette volonté de représenter l’univers, ses forces et tutti quanti.