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A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel | Hyperion CDA68035

A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA68035

Barcode: 0034571280356

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd June 2014

Gramophone Award Winner Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Works

Fiocco, Joseph Hector

Laudate pueri

Lacoste, Louis

Philomele
» Ah! quand reviendront nos beaux jours?

Lalande, Michel-Richard de

Cantate Domino, S72
» Viderunt omnes termini terrae
Exsurgat Deus, S71
» Regna terrae
Te Deum laudamus, S32
» Sinfonie
» Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem
» Tu rex gloriae

Mondonville, Jean-Joseph

Daphnis et Alcimadure
» Gasouillats auzelets
Venite exultemus (Psalm 94)
» Hodie si vocem
» Venite, adoremus

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Castor et Pollux
» Un tendre interet vous appelle – Tristes apprets
Les Surprises de l'Amour
» La lyre enchantee
Platee
» Amour, lance tes traits

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Salve regina

Artists

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Ex Cathedra

Conductor

Jeffrey Skidmore

Works

Fiocco, Joseph Hector

Laudate pueri

Lacoste, Louis

Philomele
» Ah! quand reviendront nos beaux jours?

Lalande, Michel-Richard de

Cantate Domino, S72
» Viderunt omnes termini terrae
Exsurgat Deus, S71
» Regna terrae
Te Deum laudamus, S32
» Sinfonie
» Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem
» Tu rex gloriae

Mondonville, Jean-Joseph

Daphnis et Alcimadure
» Gasouillats auzelets
Venite exultemus (Psalm 94)
» Hodie si vocem
» Venite, adoremus

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Castor et Pollux
» Un tendre interet vous appelle – Tristes apprets
Les Surprises de l'Amour
» La lyre enchantee
Platee
» Amour, lance tes traits

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Salve regina

Artists

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Ex Cathedra

Conductor

Jeffrey Skidmore

About

A welcome return of Carolyn Sampson and Ex Cathedra to Hyperion, performing the rich, fulsome music of the French Baroque. Their recording of love songs from Rameau’s operas (Hyperion CDA67447) was hugely acclaimed for Sampson’s stylish, fluid, seductive performances and, ten years later, her artistry is even more dazzling.

This album is of particular interest as, rather than concentrating on one composer, it showcases the works written for the premiere soprano of the day, Marie Fel. Voltaire called her his ‘adorable nightingale’. For d’Aquin, she was an enchanted being.

Marie Fel was the soprano who held an entire generation spellbound at the Paris Opéra and at Louis XV’s court during one of the most glorious periods of French music. With a voice described as ‘pure, charming, silvery’ (La Borde), ‘touching and sublime’ (Grimm) and ‘always lovely, always seductive’ (d’Aquin), she inspired some of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s finest music and introduced a whole new level of virtuosity and expression into the French singing tradition. Her long, triumphant career is traced through this fascinating recording.

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