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Lully - Ballets & recits italiens

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Label: Glossa

Cat No: GCD921509

Barcode: 8424562215092

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 24th August 2009

Works

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Ballet de la Raillerie LWV11: Overture; Ritournelle; Trio - L’un dell’altro ognun si burla

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Psyche LWV45: Air - Deh piangete al pianto mio

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Ballet d’Alcidiane LWV9: Chaconne des Maures

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Ballet des Nations LWV43: Air - Di rigori armata il seno; Entree des Scaramouches; Chaconne; Duo: Bel tempo che vola; Rejouissance; Chaconne

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Ballet de l’Amour malade LWV8: Ritournelle; Air: Que les jaloux sont importuns - Ritournelle; Air: E che sarebbe amor senza cochette?

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Ballet d’Alcidiane: Overture; Ritournelle; Air: Amiam dunque infin ch’e lecito

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Ballet de Flore LWV40: Plainte de Venus: Ah quelle cruaute

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Ballet d’Alcidiane Petite chaconne - Duo: Cede al vostro valore

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Ballet des amours deguises LWV21 - Plainte d’Armide: Ah Rinaldo e dove sei?

Artists

Emanuela Galli (soprano)
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (soprano)
Stefanie True (soprano)
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)
La Risonanza

Conductor

Fabio Bonizzoni

Works

Artists

Emanuela Galli (soprano)
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (soprano)
Stefanie True (soprano)
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)
La Risonanza

Conductor

Fabio Bonizzoni

About

Nowadays, little introduction on record is needed for the dramatic output of Jean-Baptiste Lully: his style has become unquestionably associated with French music of the 17th century. But long before he became the all-conquering composer of tragedies en musique at the court of Le Roi Soleil, Louis XIV, Giovanni Battista Lulli had been a young Florentine employed as a page for the Duchess of Montpensier and detailed to provide her with conversational classes in Italian.

In those early years in Paris, Lully also learnt his craft as a composer, encouraged by the efforts of France's First Minister, Cardinal Mazarin, also Italian-born, to encourage the spread of music from his native country to the French court: Francesco Cavalli was another composer attracted to Paris to demonstrate the mastery of Italians in opera.

Lully's own initial compositions focused on music for ballets de cour and for these instrumental entrées were combined with vocal sections in Italian and his early treatment of recitative.

Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza draw us into the Italianate world of Paris in the 1650s and 1660s.

Recorded at Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunciata, Brunello, Varese (Italy), October 2008.