Charpentier: Les Plaisirs de Versailles, Les Arts Florissants / Boston Early Music Festival

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CPO
Release Date
August 2, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHARPENTIER, MARC-ANTOINE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Wakim, Warnken, Blumberg, Boston Early Music Festival Ch
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 02, 2019
    • UPC
      761203528325
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555283-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    2. Scene 1: Air: Que tout cède aux douceurs (La Musique, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    3. Scene 2: Quel objet importun (La Musique, La Conversation)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    4. Scene 2: Ah! que cette chute (La Conversation, La Musique, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Virginia Warnken, Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    5. Scene 2: Qu'elle finisse donc (La Musique, La Conversation, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    6. Scene 3: Venez, dieu des festins (Un Plaisir, Comus, La Musique, La Conversation)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan, Jesse Blumberg, Teresa Wakim, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    7. Scene 3: Air: D'un vin délicieux (Comus, La Conversation, La Musique)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Jesse Blumberg, Virginia Warnken, Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    8. Scene 3: Air: J'ai des confitures liquides (Comus, La Musique, La Conversation)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Jesse Blumberg, Teresa Wakim, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    9. Scene 4: Air: Si les cartes, les des (Le Jeu, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Jason McStoots

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    10. Scene 4: Pour vous apaiser donc (Le Jeu, Comus, La Musique, La Conversation, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Jason McStoots, Jesse Blumberg, Teresa Wakim, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    11. Scene 4: Déesse des discours (Comus, La Conversation, La Musique)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Jesse Blumberg, Virginia Warnken, Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    12. Scene 4: Air: Ah, que ce chocolat foisonne (La Conversation, La Musique, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Virginia Warnken, Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    13. Scene 4: Déesse un peu trop chatouilleuse (La Musique, La Conversation, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    14. Overture

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    15. Scene 1: Air: Que mes divins concerts (La Musique)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    16. Scene 1: Amour du Ciel et de la terre, Âme de l'Univers, Lien des Eléments (Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    17. Scene 1: Air: Dans la noble ardeur (La Poésie, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Molly Netter

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    18. Scene 1: Air: Mon pinceau, mes couleurs, ne perdent point courage (La Peinture, L'Architecture)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    19. Scene 1: Amour du Ciel et de la terre, Délices de l'Esprit, seuls plaisirs innocents (Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    20. Scene 2: Quel bruit épouvantable (La Musique, La Poésie, La Peinture, L'Architecture, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim, Molly Netter, Aaron Sheehan, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    21. Scene 2: Air: Renversons le ciel, la terre et l'onde (La Discorde, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Jesse Blumberg

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    22. Scene 2: Sa gloire est un supplice (La Discorde, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Jesse Blumberg

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    23. Scene 3: Prélude - Fille de la nuit éternelle (La Paix, La Discorde, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Margot Rood, Jesse Blumberg

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    24. Scene 3: Souffres-tu, monarque des Dieux (La Paix)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Margot Rood

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    25. Scene 4: Prélude - Parais dans ta beauté première (La Paix)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Margot Rood

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    26. Scene 5: Chaconne - Charmante Paix, du ciel à propos descendue (La Musique, La Poésie, La Peinture, L'Architecture, Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim, Molly Netter, Aaron Sheehan, Virginia Warnken

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    27. Scene 5: O Paix si longtemps désirée (La Musique, La Poésie, Guerrier, La Paix)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Teresa Wakim, Molly Netter, John Taylor Ward, Margot Rood

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    28. Scene 5: O Paix si longtemps désirée (Chorus)

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble, Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs


Charpentier & BEMF Again at their Best. In 2015 our most recent Charpentier recording to date, La Descente d’Orphee aux Enfers with young soloists and the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble, received the Grammy Award for the “Best Opera Production” of the preceding year and Gramophone’s “Editor’s Choice.” Our new album featuring two “mini-operas” by Charpentier again offers enthralling performances of this court music of charming dance character and elegance. In contrast to Charpentier’s other operas, Les Plaisirs de Versailles is directly associated with Louis XIV. The title of the manuscript score registers very clearly and unmistakably what is involved in this composition, and its equation of the “plaisirs,” the “pleasures,” with the king’s residence not only serves to reveal the subject but also the context: on the one hand, the work describes the pleasures that could be experienced in the royal palace; on the other hand, it itself is supposed to be one of these pleasures. Once again a beautiful and top-quality work from opera history is made available to listeners of the twenty-first century: “An important addition to the Charpentier discography” (Toccata).