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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (1997) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Sept. 20, 2022

“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

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Les Ombres, Antonin Rondepierre, Emmanuelle de Negri, Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre, Isabelle Druet - Destouches: Télémaque Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 11, 2024

Les Ombres, Antonin Rondepierre, Emmanuelle de Negri, Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre, Isabelle Druet - Destouches: Télémaque & Calypso
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:06:09 | 823 Mb
Genre: Classical

At the end of the world, on the mythical island of Ogygia, while Neptune unleashes a storm, the inconsolable Calypso tries to seduce a handsome young castaway named Telemachus… Will Ulysses' son respond to the nymph's dangerous charms? Will he manage, as a humble mortal in the scheme of the gods, to escape the island where his father was once a prisoner ? A quintessential Homeric epic, Télémaque & Calypso is a flamboyant tribute to Destouches' own dramatic efficiency, and his particular attention to "lively speech" and natural declamation. After Sémiramis, Sylvain Sartre continues his brilliant journey through the masterpieces of the adventurous composer and musketeer, which are now finally revealed.

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Les Ombres, Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre - Destouches: Télémaque & Calypso (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 11, 2024

Les Ombres, Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre - Destouches: Télémaque & Calypso (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 126:09 minutes | 2,48 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download

At the end of the world, on the mythical island of Ogygia, while Neptune unleashes a storm, the inconsolable Calypso tries to seduce a handsome young castaway named Telemachus… Will Ulysses' son respond to the nymph's dangerous charms? Will he manage, as a humble mortal in the scheme of the gods, to escape the island where his father was once a prisoner ? A quintessential Homeric epic, Telemaque & Calypso is a flamboyant tribute to Destouches' own dramatic efficiency, and his particular attention to "lively speech" and natural declamation. After Semiramis, Sylvain Sartre continues his brilliant journey through the masterpieces of the adventurous composer and musketeer, which are now finally revealed.

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VA - Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 2, 2019

VA - Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (2019)
FLAC (tracks) | 02:25:29 | 739 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Eloquence

As director of an annual series of staged operas at the Barber Institute in the University of Birmingham, Lewis conveyed to first a local audience, and then a more international one with these Decca and Argo recordings, that Baroque opera should no longer be the preserve of scholars but contained as much lively and powerful drama as the works of Mozart and Puccini.

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Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Héloïse Gaillard, Ensemble Amarillis - Portraits de la Folie (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 17, 2020

Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Héloïse Gaillard, Ensemble Amarillis - Portraits de la Folie (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 67:07 | 320 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: harmonia mundi

Intégrée dans un espace moral d’exclusion et de peur au Moyen Âge, la folie devient par la suite un personnage majeur : figure “maîtrisée” aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, elle permet une critique sociale et morale du monde et à ce titre, les compositeurs et librettistes lui donne une place de choix sur la scène lyrique. Entre séduction et passion amoureuse, désespoir et allégresse, Stéphanie d’Oustrac et l’Ensemble Amarillis dévoilent ses multiples facettes, révélatrices des vérités secrètes de l’humanité à l’époque baroque

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Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Ensemble Amarillis & Héloïse Gaillard - Portraits de la Folie (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at June 19, 2020

Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Ensemble Amarillis & Héloïse Gaillard - Portraits de la Folie (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:07:07 minutes | 1,24 GB
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi, Official Digital Download

Having been relegated to a moral space of exclusion and fear in the Middle Ages, madness subsequently became a major social phenomenon: brought under control and personified as ‘Folly’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it provided scope for social and moral criticism, leading composers and librettists to give it a prominent place on the operatic stage.

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Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Héloïse Gaillard, Ensemble Amarillis - Portraits de la Folie (2020) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 10, 2025

Having been relegated to a moral space of exclusion and fear in the Middle Ages, madness subsequently became a major social phenomenon. Brought under control and personified as 'Folly' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it provided scope for social and moral criticism, leading composers and librettists to give it a prominent place on the operatic stage. Here Stphanie d'Oustrac and the Amarillis ensemble present its multiple facets, from seduction to passionate love, from despair to joy, revealing the underlying truths of humanity in the Baroque era.

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