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Gyorgy Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes (2018) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 1, 2024

With Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, György Vashegyi – along with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir – makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of French dramatic masterpieces from the Baroque, and in the company of a luxurious line-up of vocal soloists.

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Valentin Tournet, La Chapelle Harmonique, Gwendoline Blondeel - Colin de Blamont: Les Fetes grecques et romaines (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 16, 2024

Valentin Tournet, La Chapelle Harmonique, Gwendoline Blondeel - Colin de Blamont: Les Fetes grecques et romaines (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:26:51 | 1.03 Gb
Genre: Classical

Dès leur création en 1723, Les Fêtes grecques et romaines, premier opéra de Colin de Blamont connut un succès retentissant. Synthèse entre la noblesse de la tragédie lyrique créée par Lully et le ton plus badin, avec ses divertissements chorégraphiques, de l’opéra-ballet créé par Campra, son livret redonne vie aux fêtes les plus connues de l’Histoire antique. L’éloquent Alcibiade se distingue lors des Jeux olympiques, Marc Antoine et Cléopâtre célèbrent les enivrantes Bacchanales & le poète Tibulle courtise avec fougue sa chère Délie à l’occasion des Saturnales… Valentin Tournet nous fait redécouvrir cette œuvre phare du Siècle des Lumières laissée bien trop longtemps dans l’ombre de ses fameux contemporains.

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Peter Tantsits, Rachel Harnisch, Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Peter Rundel - Hector Parra: Les Bienveillantes Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 23, 2024

Peter Tantsits, Rachel Harnisch, Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Peter Rundel - Hector Parra: Les Bienveillantes
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 2:53:08 | 1.1 Gb
Genre: Classical

Commissioned by Opera Ballet Vlaanderen at the suggestion of director Calixto Bieito, Les Bienveillantes is based on Jonathan Littell's novel, a harsh and monumental work in terms of its length, subject, scope and depth - a bestseller in France, Grand Prix du roman de l'Academie francaise and Prix Goncourt, translated into over twenty languages - told in the first person by Maximilian Aue, a former SS officer. Together with Handl Klaus, who wrote the libretto, Hector Parra has achieved a musical, intellectual and human tour de force. These 3 b-records CDs, which inaugurate the new "Villa Medicis Live" collection, allow us to relive the extraordinary world premiere, bringing together a first-rate vocal team and the great conductor Peter Rundel.

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Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi and Anaïs Constans - Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencérages (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 11, 2022

Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi and Anaïs Constans - Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencérages (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:48:33 | 386 / 742 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Bru Zane

Cherubini's Les Abencérages, premiered in 1813, heralds the spectacle and extravagance of Romantic grand opera. From the Alhambra gardens to the battlefield, the action skillfully intertwines political conspiracies with a love story. Underpinned by the energy and timbres of period instruments, this recording demonstrates the work's modernity and it's musical qualities.Anaïs Constans valiantly tackles the demanding role of Noraïme, while Edgaras Montvidas displays his lyric tenor voice in a series of sublime airs whose beauty was already hinted at by none other than Roberto Alagna in a recital disc released in 2003. Around this couple, a plethoric cast of soloists (Dolié, Sargsyan, Williams, Martin, Lavoie, etc.) achieves the same high standards of French diction and style. The Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi, flanked by the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra, reveals here another key milestone of French Romantic opera.

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Ensemble les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas - Rameau chez la Pompadour. Le retour d'Astrée & Les Sybarites (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 16, 2022

Ensemble les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas - Rameau chez la Pompadour. Le retour d'Astrée & Les Sybarites (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:12:18 | 367 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

Au XVIIIe siècle, les œuvres musicales n’étaient pas conçues pour durer. Elles étaient dès lors sans cesse remaniées par leurs auteurs, ce qui nous vaut aujourd’hui de multiples versions sans qu’aucune ne soit véritablement définitive, ce que notre époque de puristes a quelquefois de la peine à comprendre.

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Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - Voix humaines. Marais Pièces inédites pour flûte (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 18, 2025

While Marin Marais is best known for his works for viola da gamba, he also composed for the flute; Michael Lynn's recent rediscovery of manuscripts containing pieces for flute and basso continuo as well as duets caught the attention of Francois Lazarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, who now present the first recordings of these works. "This virgin territory did not open up to me straight away, and only did so after an ongoing exploration that took me more than a year…

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Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset - Rameau: Zais (2015) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Feb. 20, 2017

In 1745, the king granted Jean-Philippe Rameau the position of Composer du cabinet du roy, which came with a pension. This new period would see productions in a lighter vein, in collaboration with the librettist Louis de Cahusac, and some of the Burgundian musician's most important masterpieces. 'Zaïs', performed in 1748 on the stage of the Académie Royale de Musique, is one of them. This ballet-héroïque gave French music one of its finest works.

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Sabine Devieilhe, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi - Rameau: Les Boréades (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 12, 2024

Sabine Devieilhe, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi - Rameau: Les Boréades (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:26:19 | 761 Mb
Genre: Classical

“Rameau is one of the universal geniuses in European musical history, on the same level as Bach, Mozart and Haydn”, asserts conductor György Vashegyi.

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Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski - Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride (2001) Music

Posted by tirexiss at July 2, 2017

Following the success of 1999's thrilling Armide, Marc Minkowski and his excellent cast fully convey the power and drama of Gluck's masterpiece. They pull you into the story (based on a play by Euripides) through the emotional truth of their interpretation. The opening quiet strings create an air of mystery dispelled by a ferocious storm magnificently conveyed by these early-music specialists. Within a few phrases of Iphigénie's opening lament, Delunsch creates a believable, sympathetic character.

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John Nelson - Berlioz: Les Troyens (Live) (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 27, 2017

This new Erato recording of the complete, uncut score of Les Troyens is drawn from two concert performances that took place over the Easter weekend in April 2017 in the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. A magnificent cast of singers, predominantly Francophone, assembled under the baton of John Nelson, an acknowledged master of Berlioz’s music who has conducted Les Troyens more frequently than anyone else over a period of more than 40 years; he made his name with the piece when he led performances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1974 and enjoyed great acclaim for a production at the Frankfurt Opera shortly before the Strasbourg concerts.

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