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Veronique Gens: Tragediennes Vol.2 (from Gluck to Berlioz)
Our Price: £12.50
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 8th June 2009
Soprano Véronique Gens, one of the leading French singers of today, presents an imaginatively programmed sequel to her award-winning 2006 recital of tragic operatic heroines.
This second album of Tragédiennes features arias and ballet music from the 18th and 19th centuries, from the Baroque (Rameau) to the Romantic (Berlioz) by way of such important transitional figures as Gluck and Cherubini, and lesser-known figures such as Piccini, Sacchini and Arriaga, the ‘Spanish Mozart’, who died at the age of just 19.
Reviewing the first Tragédiennes, Opera magazine described Gens as “a soprano moulded by the best performance traditions of the French Baroque rediscovery of recent decades, but also one capable — as she has proved live and on record — of compassing Mozart and Berlioz in her repertory. Gens’s liquid-toned soprano … [with its] evenness of vocal production and command of line and tone ... is the programme’s binding and focal point, and always balm to the ears.”
Gramophone said of the first album: “Gens's great gift is in differentiating between the various tragic heroines and bringing total dramatic commitment to each. There's anger spat out at white heat but there's also quiet, brooding hysteria – all characterised to perfection. And in Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques she has partners on a truly exalted plane of imagination, musicality and sheer theatrical flair.”
Track Listing:
01) Gluck: Alceste Grands dieux soutenez mon courage… Ah ! Divinités implacables – Alceste
02) Sacchini: Dardanus Il me fuit… Rien ne peut émouvoir – Iphise
03) Sacchini: Cesse cruel amour de régner sur mon âme – Iphise
04) Piccini: Didon Non, ce n’est plus pour moi – Didon
05) Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice Ballet des ombres heureuses
06) Gluck: Air de Furies
07) Sacchini: Œdipe à Colone Dieux, ce n’est pas pour moi que ma voix vous implore – Antigone
08) Grétry: Andromaque C’est le seul espoir qui me reste… Si fidèle au nœud qui l’engage – Hermione
09) Rameau: Les Paladins Entrée très gaye de Troubadours
10) Rameau: Triste séjour – Argie
11) Rameau: Sarabande
12) Sacchini: Renaud Hélas vous le dirais-je… Ah ! Que dis-tu ? – Armide
13) Rameau: Les Paladins Menuets I & II
14) Cherubini: Médée Ah ! Nos peines seront communes – Néris
15) Arriaga: Herminie Mais sur cette arène guerrière… Il n’est plus… Dieux cruels ! – Herminie
16) Berlioz: Les Troyens Les Grecs ont disparu… Malheureux Roi – Cassandre
This second album of Tragédiennes features arias and ballet music from the 18th and 19th centuries, from the Baroque (Rameau) to the Romantic (Berlioz) by way of such important transitional figures as Gluck and Cherubini, and lesser-known figures such as Piccini, Sacchini and Arriaga, the ‘Spanish Mozart’, who died at the age of just 19.
Reviewing the first Tragédiennes, Opera magazine described Gens as “a soprano moulded by the best performance traditions of the French Baroque rediscovery of recent decades, but also one capable — as she has proved live and on record — of compassing Mozart and Berlioz in her repertory. Gens’s liquid-toned soprano … [with its] evenness of vocal production and command of line and tone ... is the programme’s binding and focal point, and always balm to the ears.”
Gramophone said of the first album: “Gens's great gift is in differentiating between the various tragic heroines and bringing total dramatic commitment to each. There's anger spat out at white heat but there's also quiet, brooding hysteria – all characterised to perfection. And in Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques she has partners on a truly exalted plane of imagination, musicality and sheer theatrical flair.”
Track Listing:
01) Gluck: Alceste Grands dieux soutenez mon courage… Ah ! Divinités implacables – Alceste
02) Sacchini: Dardanus Il me fuit… Rien ne peut émouvoir – Iphise
03) Sacchini: Cesse cruel amour de régner sur mon âme – Iphise
04) Piccini: Didon Non, ce n’est plus pour moi – Didon
05) Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice Ballet des ombres heureuses
06) Gluck: Air de Furies
07) Sacchini: Œdipe à Colone Dieux, ce n’est pas pour moi que ma voix vous implore – Antigone
08) Grétry: Andromaque C’est le seul espoir qui me reste… Si fidèle au nœud qui l’engage – Hermione
09) Rameau: Les Paladins Entrée très gaye de Troubadours
10) Rameau: Triste séjour – Argie
11) Rameau: Sarabande
12) Sacchini: Renaud Hélas vous le dirais-je… Ah ! Que dis-tu ? – Armide
13) Rameau: Les Paladins Menuets I & II
14) Cherubini: Médée Ah ! Nos peines seront communes – Néris
15) Arriaga: Herminie Mais sur cette arène guerrière… Il n’est plus… Dieux cruels ! – Herminie
16) Berlioz: Les Troyens Les Grecs ont disparu… Malheureux Roi – Cassandre
Composers on this disc include....
Christoph Willibald Gluck
,
Antonio Sacchini
,
Piccini
,
Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry
,
Jean-Philippe Rameau
,
Luigi Cherubini
,
Juan Crisostomo Arriaga
,
Hector Berlioz
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