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Lully - Alceste
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Label: Aparte
Cat No: AP164
Barcode: 3149028115222
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 26th January 2018
Directing from the harpsichord, Christophe Rousset brings just the right balance of spontaneity and refinement to this recording. Oustanding among the stylish cast are Judith Van Wanroij as the eponymous heroine, her delivery pliant and lucid, her satin tones persuasively seductive, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Admète), whose chameleon tenor has an emotive expressive range... and Edwin Crossley-Mercer, a lustrous-toned Alcide. ... Most compelling of all, though, is the Namur Chamber Choir, whose singing is by turns rapt and silky, agile and urgent. 
Few if any conductors match Christophe Rousset’s understanding of Lullian style and rhetoric; and few could complain that he tweaks the sparse orchestration here and there when the effect is so theatrically vivid. ... In the title-role Judith Van Wanroij, with a touch of metal in her limpid tone, seems ideally cast, bringing a mingled intensity and delicacy of inflection to her moving laments in Acts 2 and 3. ... it is hard to imagine this music, often delightful, sometimes witty, intermittently touching, coming alive more vividly than it does here. 
