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Rameau - Les Indes galantes, Castor & Pollux | Harmonia Mundi HMX290870009

Rameau - Les Indes galantes, Castor & Pollux

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMX290870009

Barcode: 3149020870044

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 28th July 2014

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Contents

Artists

Claron McFadden
Isabelle Poulenard
Noemi Rime
Miriam Ruggeri
Howard Crook
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt
Jerome Correas
Bernard Deletre
Nicolas Rivenq
Veronique Gens
Mark Padmore
Claire Brua
Sandrine Piau
Rene Schirrer
Agnes Mellon
Jill Feldman
Dominique Visse
Michel Laplenie
Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

Works

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Anacreon
Castor et Pollux
Les Indes galantes
Nelee et Myrthis
Pygmalion

Artists

Claron McFadden
Isabelle Poulenard
Noemi Rime
Miriam Ruggeri
Howard Crook
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt
Jerome Correas
Bernard Deletre
Nicolas Rivenq
Veronique Gens
Mark Padmore
Claire Brua
Sandrine Piau
Rene Schirrer
Agnes Mellon
Jill Feldman
Dominique Visse
Michel Laplenie
Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

About

250 years after his death, Jean-Philippe Rameau continues to fascinate, as is shown by the number of new productions of his operas scheduled for 2014 and beyond. However, the Dijon-born composer also owes some of his current popularity to the passionate advocacy of William Christie.

This sumptuous box set presents the critically-acclaimed Rameau recordings he made for harmonia mundi in the 1980s and 1990s. Its selection of opéra-ballet, tragédie lyrique and harpsichord pieces on 10 cds, many unavailable for some time, highlights the multiple facets of Rameau's oeuvre, masterfully interpreted by the American Baroque pioneer so completely at home in French music. A must!

"a first-rate performance of one of Rameau's most endearing stage works; Christie's control of his forces, his convincing pacing of the piece—the Prologue and first entree sounded hurried and unsettled in the Aix-en-Provence production that preceded the recording—and his feeling for colour, gesture and rhythm contribute towards making this perhaps his finest achievement on disc, so far. His choir is lively and well-disciplined and the instrumentalists of Les Arts Florissants play with greater finesse than I have previously heard. The booklet contains full texts in French, English and German and the music is vividly recorded in a pleasing acoustic. All in all, a considerable achievement which should provide readers with enduring pleasure." - Nicholas Anderson, Gramophone Feb 1992 [Les Indes Galantes]

"Christie's performance does seem to me to have the stronger solo vocal cast, and this applies to smaller roles as well as the principal ones—the sopranos Veronique Gens and Sandrine Piau are both outstanding...Christie.. unquestionably gives us new and subtle insights to the opera and does, I believe, more convincingly realize the element of tragedy, above all in the First Act." - Nicholas Anderson, Gramophone July 1993 [Castor]

Contents:
Les Indes Galantes
Cast:
- Claron McFadden (Hebe, Zima)
- Sandrine Piau (Zaire)
- Isabelle Poulenard (L'Amour, Phani)
- Noemi Rime (Fatime)
- Miriam Ruggeri (Emilie)
- Howard Crook (Valere/Damon)
- Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (Don Carlos/Tacmas)
- Jerome Correas (Bellone/Ali)
- Bernard Deletre (Huascar/Don Alvar)
- Nicolas Rivenq (Osman/Adario)

Castor & Pollux
Cast:
- Howard Crook (Castor)
- Jérôme Corréas (Pollux)
- Agnès Mellon (Télaire)
- Véronique Gens (Phébé)
- René Schirrer (Mars/Jupiter)
- Sandrine Piau (Vénus)
- Mark Padmore (L'Amour)
- Mark Padmore (Grand Prêtre de Jupiter)
- Claire Brua (Minerva)

Pygmalion / Nelée et Myrthis
Howard Crook, Agnès Mellon, Jérôme Corréas & Sandrine Piau

Anacreon
René Schirrer, Agnès Mellon, Jill Feldman, Dominique Visse, Michel Laplénie

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