Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
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Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Lully (composer)
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entirely up to the standard of excellence that one has come to expect from the Chateau de Versailles series. The orchestra of the Poème Harmonique is powerful yet discrete when needed…the voices... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
2 CDs
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Lully: Acis et Galatée Jean-Francois Lombard (Acis), Elena Harsanyi (Galatee), Valeria La Grotta (Diane), Luigi de Donato (Polipheme), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (L'Abondance), Markus van Arsdale (Comus/Tircis), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Sardelli (wielding an authentically Lullian staff for certain movements) propels a crisp account – the festival orchestra’s first with period instruments. The many dances show off a wonderful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Lully: Thésée Mathias Vidal (Thésée). Karine Deshayes (Médée), Deborah Cachet (Aeglé), Marie Lys (Cléone/Cérès), Bénédicte Tauran, (La Grande Prêtresse de Minerve), Thaïs Raï-Westphal (Dorine/Venus), Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Rousset and his performers are lithe and imaginative. A well-chosen cast make much of Lully's expressive recitative. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
3 CDs
Original price ($32.00) Reduced price $25.50Downloads
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Lully: Persée 1770 Mathias Vidal, Hélène Guilmette, Katherine Watson, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean Teitgen, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Marie Lenormand, Cyrille Dubois, Marie Kalinine, Thomas Dolié, Zachary Wilder
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet’s musical direction is admirably fluent. The orchestral playing and choral singing are magnificent throughout in a suitably resonant recording…Katherine Watson as Mérope stands... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Record Review, 25th March 2017, Recording of the Week
2 CDs
Original price ($36.50) Reduced price $29.25Downloads
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Lully: Phaéton Eva Zaïcik, Lisandro Abadie, Mathias Vidal, Cyril Auvity, Elizaveta Sveshnikova, Victoire Bunel, Léa Trommenschlager, Viktor Shapovalov, Aleksandr Egorov
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
The scenery and costumes are a mixture of old and new, with some lavishly neoBaroque headgear...The ambitious, headstrong Phaéton is not a sympathetic character. Mathias Vidal is good at showing... — More…
DVD Video + 2 CDs
Original price ($35.75) Reduced price $27.50Downloads
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Lully: Acis et Galatée Jean-Francois Lombard (Acis), Elena Harsanyi (Galatee), Valeria La Grotta (Diane), Luigi de Donato (Polipheme), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (L'Abondance), Markus van Arsdale (Comus/Tircis), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Sardelli (wielding an authentically Lullian staff for certain movements) propels a crisp account – the festival orchestra’s first with period instruments. The many dances show off a wonderful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Lully: Atys Bernard Richter (Atys), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Cybele), Emmanuele De Negri (Sangaride), Nicolas Rivenq (Célénus), Marc Mauillon (Idas), Sophie Daneman (Doris), Jaël Azzaretti (Mélisse), Paul Agnew (Dieu du Sommeil), Cyril Auvity (Morphée), Bernard Deletre (Le Temps/Le Fleuve Sangar), Les Arts Florissants,...
These excellent singer-actors tread a fine line between sincerity and send-up...Les Arts Florissants excel themselves. The sumptuous realm of le roi soleil is here brilliantly evoked. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Lully: Atys Bernard Richter (Atys), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Cybele), Emmanuele De Negri (Sangaride), Nicolas Rivenq (Célénus), Marc Mauillon (Idas), Sophie Daneman (Doris), Jaël Azzaretti (Mélisse), Paul Agnew (Dieu du Sommeil), Cyril Auvity (Morphée), Bernard Deletre (Le Temps/Le Fleuve Sangar), Les Arts Florissants,...
These excellent singer-actors tread a fine line between sincerity and send-up...Les Arts Florissants excel themselves. The sumptuous realm of le roi soleil is here brilliantly evoked. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Lully: Thesée Howard Crook, Laura Pudwell, Ellen Hargis & Harry van der Kamp
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs
This studio recording follows staged performances at the Boston Early Music Festival and is well presented in every aspect… The whole is driven with taste, style and sure dramatic sense by the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
3 CDs
Original price ($46.25) Reduced price $36.50Downloads
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Lully: Armide 1778 Katherine Watson (soprano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Chantal Santon Jeffrey (soprano), Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Tassis Christoyannis (bass), Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
The story is a splendid vehicle for Véronique Gens…She is in glorious voice...Van Mechelen is ideal as his namesake, mellifluous and attentive to the text. The other singers, familiar specialists... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Recording of the Month
2 CDs + Book
Original price ($34.75) Reduced price $24.25Downloads
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