Véronique Gens: Charpentier Lully & Desmarets: Passion - COMPACT DISCS

Véronique Gens: Charpentier Lully & Desmarets: Passion - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Charpentier Lully & Desmarets: Passion

Artist:

Véronique Gens

Label:

Alpha

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3760014197475

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2021-08-27

Number of Discs:

1

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 Whether well known, rare or in some cases even unpublished, all of them present roles for powerful women whose love is unrequited: dark passions, bitter laments, jealousy, vengeance, the type of dramatic characters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.

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