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Rameau / Campra - French Cantatas | BIS BISCD1495

Rameau / Campra - French Cantatas

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1495

Barcode: 7318590014950

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th April 2007

Contents

Artists

Peter Harvey (baritone)
Philippa Hyde (soprano)
London Baroque

Works

Campra, Andre

Les Femmes

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Air a boire
Aquilon et Orithie
Les Amants Trahis
Thetis

Artists

Peter Harvey (baritone)
Philippa Hyde (soprano)
London Baroque

About

Rameau’s cantatas are early works in which he experimented with the forms and styles which he would later incorporate into his operas. Both Aquilon and Thétis, each based on a classical subject and featuring an obbligato violin part, were written about 1704 by a composer who had just entered his twenties. 
 
Some ten years later Les Amants trahis appeared, in which two shepherds discuss the inconstancy of women. The short Air à boire is likewise a duet, first published in 1707 in the collection Airs serieux et à boire. As implied by its title it is a lusty drinking song, in Burgundian dialect. Published one year later, Les Femmes by Rameau’s older colleague André Campra (1660-1744) rounds off this programme of French Cantatas.  
 
London Baroque is joined by Peter Harvey, with a fine reputation for a beautiful voice as well as for great communicative skills based on an extensive career on stage and on record. In the works for two voices he is supported by English soprano Philippa Hyde.

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