Charpentier / Gens / Ensemble Les Surprises: Charpentier Lully & Desmarets: Passion
Charpentier / Gens / Ensemble Les Surprises: Charpentier Lully & Desmarets: Passion
Format: CD
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Artist: Charpentier / Gens / Ensemble Les Surprises
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3760014197475
Genre: Classical
This programme marks the eagerly awaited return of Véronique Gens to Baroque music and Lully, in which she made a name for herself at the start of her career. It presents airs from Atys, Persée, Alceste, Proserpine, Le Triomphe de l'Amour and other works by Louis XIV's famous composer, but also several by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Médée), Henry Desmarets and Pascal Collasse. Whether well known, rare or in some cases even unpublished, all of them present roles for powerful women whose love is unrequited: dark passions, bitter laments, jealousy, vengeance, the type of dramatic characters that Véronique Gens embodies with all the charisma that has made her reputation. This recording is also the result of an encounter with the youthful ensemble Les Surprises, founded and directed by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas. Together they conceived this programme, which mingles airs, dances and choruses, in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Tracks:
1.1 * Amadis (Excerpts)
1.2 » 1. Act III: Toi Qui Dans Ce Tombeau
1.3 » 2. Act I: Prélude
1.4 3. Achille Et Polyxène: Calme Tes Déplaisirs
1.5 4. Thétis Et Pélée: Tempête
1.6 5. Circé: Désirs, Transports
1.7 6. Proserpine: Deuxième Air
1.8 7. Le Temple de la Paix Suite: VII. Entrée Des Bretons Et Brettones, Passepieds
1.9 Proserpine (Excerpts)
1.10 » 8. Act III: Ô Malheureuse Mère
1.11 » 9. Act III: Que Tout Se Ressente de la Fureur
1.12 10. Atys, LWV 53, Act III: Ritournelle: Espoir Si Cher Et Si Doux
1.13 11. La Naissance de Vénus, Part II: Dieu Des Enfers Écoutez Mes Peines
1.14 12. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Canaries
1.15 13. Armide, Act II: Enfin Il Est en Ma Puissance
1.16 14. Persée: Ouverture
1.17 15. Le Triomphe de L'amour: Air de la Nuit: Voici Le Favorable Temps
1.18 16. La Diane de Fontainebleau: Choeur Du Sommeil
1.19 Alceste (Excerpts)
1.20 » 17. Act III: Pompe Funèbre
1.21 » 18. Act III: La Mort, la Mort Barbare
1.22 Médée (Excerpts)
1.23 » 19. Act III: Quel Prix de Mon Amour
1.24 » 20. Act III: Noires Filles Du Stix
1.25 21. Le Triomphe de L'amour: Air Pour L'entrée de Borée Et Des Quatre Vents
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