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Tragédie lyrique given with great sympathy and style: Passion from Véronique Gens with Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
Passion - Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: bayreuth.media)Passion: Lully, Henry Desmarest, André Cardinal Destouches, Rebel, Charpentier; Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas; Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival at Ordenskirche St GeorgenImmense style and mesmerising performances in the wonderful selection of music from tragédies lyriques by Lully and his contemporariesVéronique Gens recorded her programme Passion with Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises in 2021. It is an exploration of music written for two singers who inspired Lully, Mademoiselle Saint Christophe and Marie Le Rochois, focussing on music by Lully and his younger contemporaries.Véronique Gens, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises brought Passion to the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival and performed it on Sunday 10 September 2023 in the splendour of the Ordenskirche St Georgen, Bayreuth. Véronique Gens was joined by an instrumental ensemble of eleven, directed from the harpsichord and organ by Louis-Noel […]
2020-09-08 08:40:23
Through late 18th-century ears: Lully's Armide in a radical adaptation from 1778
Lully/Francoeur Armide; Véronique Gens, Reinoud van Mechelen, Tassis Christoyannis, Le concert spirituel, Hervé Niquet; Alpha Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 September 2020 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) A radical re-working of Lully's opera, intended to make it suitable for the Paris stage in 1778History books tell us that the operas of Lully remained in the repertoire of the Paris Opera for much of the century following his death in 1687. Lully's final opera Armide (which premiered in 1686) was performed at the Paris Opera in 1745/46 and 1761-1766, and there were unfulfilled plans to bring it back in 1778 (Lully's Thesee was performed there in 1779). But opera was very different in Paris in the 1770s, and Gluck's Armide (which set Philippe Quinault's libretto written for Lully) premiered in 1777 to considerable controversy. Lully was still held in high regard by some, and we can get the […]
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2019-08-28 09:46:20
Francœur: Cello Sonata in E major - Ella van Poucke and Caspar Vos - Live Concert HD
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2016-12-18 20:47:31
Kreisler Collection
At my Blog today is an interesting new recording titled: Kreisler: The Complete Original Works for Violin and Piano Fritz Kreisler is considered among the greatest virtuosos of 20th century violin playing, and this recording gathers what is considered the complete original output for violin and piano composed by Kreisler himself. Much of this collection, performed by violinist Kees Hülsmann and Marian Bolt, is of pieces rarely recorded. Titles are as follows: Kreisler: Tempo di menuetto (in the style of Pugnani) Andantino in the style of Martini Scherzo (In The Style Of Dittersdorf) Gypsy Caprice Aucassin and Nicolette (canzonetta medievale) Allegretto (in the style of Boccherini) Preghiera in the style of Martini Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3 Menuet (in the style of Porpora) La Précieuse (in the style of Louis Couperin) Sicilienne and Rigaudon (in the style of Francoeur) […]
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