FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!

Rivales: Operatic Airs and Duets | Alpha ALPHA824

Rivales: Operatic Airs and Duets

£13.88

In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day

Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA824

Barcode: 3760014198243

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st April 2022

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Christian

La clemenza di Scipione
» Me infelice! Che intendo?

Cherubini, Luigi

Demophoon
» Un moment a l'autel

Dalayrac, Nicolas-Marie

Camille ou le Souterrain
» Ciel protecteur des malheureux

Edelmann, Jean-Frederic

Ariane dans l'ile de Naxos
» Mais Thesee est absent

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Alceste
» Divinites du Styx
La clemenza di Tito
» Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (Act 2)

Gretry, Andre

Aucassin et Nicolette
» Cher objet de ma pensee
L'Embarras des richesses
» Des notre enfance unis tous deux

Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre

Le Deserteur
» Ou suis-je?

Persuis, Louis-Luc Loiseau de

Fanny Morna, ou L'ecossaise
» O divinite tutelaire

Sacchini, Antonio

Renaud
» Barbare amour, tyran des coeurs

Artists

Veronique Gens (soprano)
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Le Concert de la Loge

Conductor

Julien Chauvin

Works

Bach, Johann Christian

La clemenza di Scipione
» Me infelice! Che intendo?

Cherubini, Luigi

Demophoon
» Un moment a l'autel

Dalayrac, Nicolas-Marie

Camille ou le Souterrain
» Ciel protecteur des malheureux

Edelmann, Jean-Frederic

Ariane dans l'ile de Naxos
» Mais Thesee est absent

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Alceste
» Divinites du Styx
La clemenza di Tito
» Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (Act 2)

Gretry, Andre

Aucassin et Nicolette
» Cher objet de ma pensee
L'Embarras des richesses
» Des notre enfance unis tous deux

Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre

Le Deserteur
» Ou suis-je?

Persuis, Louis-Luc Loiseau de

Fanny Morna, ou L'ecossaise
» O divinite tutelaire

Sacchini, Antonio

Renaud
» Barbare amour, tyran des coeurs

Artists

Veronique Gens (soprano)
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Le Concert de la Loge

Conductor

Julien Chauvin

About

Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens have a longstanding rapport and dreamed of making a recording together. Here they pay tribute to two singers who, like them, were born within a year of each other, Mme Dugazon (1755-1821) and Mme Saint-Huberty (1756-1812): both enjoyed triumphant careers in Paris, inspiring numerous librettists and composers. Gluck even nicknamed Saint-Huberty ‘Madamela-Ressource’, while ‘a Dugazon’ became a generic name for the roles of naïve girls in love, and later of comical mothers. Rivals? They very likely were, given the quarrelsome spirit of the operatic world of the time, even if they never crossed paths on stage. Intermingling airs and duets, Piau and Gens here play the heroines of Gluck, Grétry, Monsigny, J.C. Bach, Sacchini, Edelmann and Cherubini. Developed in collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, this programme on the cusp between Classicism and pre-Romanticism is very much the heart of the repertory championed by Julien Chauvin’s Le Concert de la Loge.

Reviews

Véronique Gens and Sandrine Piau are not rivals, either: they are friends whose professional association dates back at least as far as the production of King Arthur that William Christie and Graham Vick brought to Covent Garden during the Purcell tercentenary year. But it’s an amusing conceit... Le Concert de la Loge ... provides support that is virile and tender, as appropriate. ... And the two singers are magnificent.  Richard Lawrence
Gramophone June 2022

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here