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2022-11-10 19:03:08
Devos/Gens/Van Mechelen/Christoyannis/Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie/Kossenko(Alpha, three CDs)A rare recording of Rameau’s unrevised original, compelling at times but mainly of interest to specialistsR
2020-12-23 15:05:14
Awaiting re-discovery: Grétry Richard Coeur-de-lion returning to Versailles for the first time since 1789 proves to be a work of charm and imagination
Grétry Richard Coeur-de-lion; Rémy Mathieu, Enguerrand de Hys, Melody Louledjian, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Marie Perbost, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Marshall Pynkoski; Chateau de Versailles Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 December 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Grétry's opera comique returns to Versailles after 250 years and proves to combine charm and imaginationWhat do George Frideric Handel, André Grétry, Gioacchino Rossini, Sir Arthur Sullivan and Stephen Oliver have in common? Richard the Lionheart is perhaps not the first character you would associate with this diverse bunch of composers, but all wrote musical theatre works about King Richard I of England, though in Sullivan's Ivanhoe Richard is not the protagonist and Rossini's Ivanhoé is somewhat special pleading as the work is a pasticcio written with his consent but not participation.Handel's Riccardo I was his first opera to be premiered after he became a naturalised British citizen and treats a fictional […]
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 […]
2020-03-10 12:50:49
‘Alpha Classics’s recording is luminous and detailed’ This week’s free download is the Prélude from Charpentier’s Orphée descendant aux enfers, performed by A Nocte Temporis under Reinoud Van Mechelen. It was recorded on Alpha Classics and was the Opera Choice in the March issue of BBC Music Magazine. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: If you'd like to enjoy our free weekly download simply log in or sign up to our website. Once you've done that, return to this page and you'll be able to see a 'Download Now' button on the picture above – simply click on it to download your free track. If you […]
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