Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
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Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Rameau (composer)
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Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour Opera Arias
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko
Devieilhe has a clear, flexible voice with easy high notes. She's an agile, expressive and stylish singer, and a generous team-player...The star performance here, however, comes from Kossenko... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Musique baroque vocale
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Rameau: Dardanus - Tragedie Lyrique. Paris, 1744 Judith van Wanroij (Iphise), Chantal Santon Jeffery (Venus), Cyrille Dubois (Dardanus), Thomas Dolié (Teucer/Magician), Tassis Christoyannis (Antenor)
Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
This exciting and full-blooded account has more historic coherence than any so far of this great opera. György Vashegyi, who already has three Rameau opera recordings to his name, has mustered... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
3 CDs
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Rameau: Zoroastre 1749 Jodie Devos (Amélite), Véronique Gens (Erinice), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Zoroastre), Tassis Christoyannis (Abramane)
Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Alexis Kossenko
The chorus and line-up of soloists is first-rate, with a suitably menacing Abramane (Tassis Christoyannis) and a witchy Érinice (Véronique Gens)...The instrumental numbers (notably the sarabands)... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Opera
3 CDs
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Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Ana Quintans (soprano), Julie Roset (soprano), Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Guillaume Andrieux (baritone), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (bass-baritone), La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
With the extra music for Amour in the Prologue, this is a welcome complement to the Budapest recording (with mostly French soloists) conducted by György Vashegyi. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
2 CDs
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Rameau: Les paladins Sandrine Piau (Argie), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Nerine), Mathias Vidal (Attis), Florian Sempey (Orcan), Frédéric Caton (Anselme), Philippe Talbot (Manto)
La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
Only the occasional mannerism detracts from the spontaneity of what is otherwise a splendid performance, excellently played by La Chapelle Harmonique, whose hard-worked horns deserve a special... — More…
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Rameau: Platée Marcel Beekman (Platée), Jeanine De Bique (La Folie), Cyril Auvity (Thespis/Mercure), Marc Mauillon (Momus/Cithéron), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Jupiter)
Les Arts Florissants, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, William Christie
Under Christie, overtures and dances are terse, with tense articulation and precise meter. While carefully shaping soloists’ ensembles, Christie gives tenor Marcel Beekman, cross-dressed in... — More…
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Rameau: Les Fetes d'Hebe - Ballet En und Prologue Chantal Santon Jeffrey (Hebe), Marie Perbost (L'amour/Egle), Olivia Doray (Une Naide), Judith van Wanroij (Iphise), Renoud van Mechelen (Momus) Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, Gyorgy Vashegyi
György Vashegyi, his Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra, with an accomplished group of soloists enliven this musically rewarding score with imagination and rhythmic vitality. — More…
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Rameau: Pygmalion Cyrille Dubois (Pygmalion), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Céphise), Céline Scheen (La Statue), Eugénie Warnier (L’Amour)
Les Talens Lyriques, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Christophe Rousset
Rameau’s inventive overture fizzes, crackles and beguiles as each element demands in Les Talens Lyriques’ capable hands…[Dubois's] ardency and finesse never have any hints of strain at the top... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Disc of the Month
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Rameau: Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, ou Les Dieux d'Égypte RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Blandine Staskiewicz (sopranos), Jennifer Borghi (alto), Reinoud Van Mechelen, Mathias Vidal (countertenors), Tassis Christoyannis, Alain Buet (basses)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
The music, with Rameau very much in his prime, matches the spectacle and drama...While Herve Niquet's musical direction is generally and excellently consistent, this performance is by no means... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
2 CDs
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Rameau: Platée Mathias Vidal (Thespis), Nahuel Di Pierro (Un Satyre/Citheron), Marc Mauillon (Momus), Julie Fuchs (Thalie/La Folie), Tamara Bounazou (L'Amour/Clarine), Lawrence Brownlee (Platée), Jean Teitgen (Jupiter), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Mercure), Adrianna Bignani Lesca (Junon), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Choeurs...
