Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles

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May 5, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHARPENTIER LULLY RAMEAU
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 05, 2017
    • UPC
      3760014199691
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA969
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Prelude

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poème Harmonique

      Conductor: Vincent Dumestre

    2. Te aeternum Patrem

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poème Harmonique

      Performer: Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Aurore Bucher, Reinoud Van Mechelen

      Conductor: Vincent Dumestre

    3. In te, Domine speravi

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poème Harmonique

      Performer: Reinoud Van Mechelen, Benoît Arnould

      Conductor: Vincent Dumestre

    4. Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante

      Conductor: Skip Sempé

    5. Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Reprise de la Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante

      Conductor: Skip Sempé

    6. Pyrrhus, Act IV: Portons partout l'horreur

      Composer: Joseph Nicolas Pancrace Royer

      Ensemble: Les Enfants D'Apollon

      Performer: Virgile Ancely, Edwige Parat, Christophe Gautier, Emmanuelle De Negri, Nicole Dubrovitch, Laurent Collobert, Brian Cummings, Jean-Yves Ravoux, Sophie Decaudaveine, Paul Willenbrock, Olivier Fichet, Bruno Renhold

      Conductor: Michael Greenberg

    7. Overture

      Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair

      Ensemble: Les Nouveaux Caractères

      Performer: Sébastien d'Hérin

      Conductor: Sébastien d'Hérin

    8. Act V Scenes 2-3: —

      Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair

      Ensemble: Les Nouveaux Caractères

      Performer: Sébastien d'Hérin

      Conductor: Sébastien d'Hérin

    9. Act IV: Air: Sombres Forets, Asile redoutable

      Composer: André Campra

      Ensemble: Les Temps Présents

      Performer: Benoît Arnould, Chantal Santon Jeffery

      Conductor: Olivier Schneebeli

    10. Act V: Recitative and Air: Quel bruit! quels cris! o mortelles allarmes!

      Composer: André Campra

      Ensemble: Les Temps Présents

      Performer: Benoît Arnould, Chantal Santon Jeffery

      Conductor: Olivier Schneebeli

    11. Overture

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Pygmalion

      Conductor: Raphaël Pichon

    12. Act V: Chaconne

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Pygmalion

      Conductor: Raphaël Pichon

    13. Act III: Tambourin I-II - Chantons tous!

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Pygmalion

      Conductor: Raphaël Pichon

    14. Persée, Act I: Airs pour la dispute des prix de la Lutte et de l'Arc (arr. A. Dauvergne as 1770 Versailles version)

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    15. Persée, Act II: Deuxième Air pour les Cyclopes (arr. F. Rebel as 1770 Versailles version)

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    16. Persée, Act II: Air pour l'entrée des Nymphes guerrières (arr. F. Rebel as 1770 Versailles version)

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    17. Persée, Act II: Air pour l'entrée des Divinités infernales (arr. F. Rebel as 1770 Versailles version)

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    18. Concerti ecclesistici: Omnes gentes plaudite manibus

      Composer: Giovanni Bassano

      Ensemble: Galilei Consort

      Conductor: Benjamin Chénier

    19. Te Ergo Quaesumus

      Composer: Henry Madin

      Ensemble: Les Cris de Paris, Stradivaria

      Conductor: Daniel Cuiller

    20. Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim

      Composer: Henry Madin

      Ensemble: Les Cris de Paris, Stradivaria

      Conductor: Daniel Cuiller

    21. Requiem No. 1 in C Minor: Sequentia

      Composer: Luigi Cherubini

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet


Waterfalls and cascades, gushing fountains, canals, pools, grottoes and lily ponds, miroirs d'eau calmly reflecting the light: the water displays at Versailles are as varied as the secrets of its groves. They express the genius of the landscape architect Le Nôtre, who wanted water features and sculptures to decorate and animate the gardens he designed. For thirty years, Versailles and its gardens were expressions of the king's power and of his tastes. Louis would go out walking in the park each day, building up his dream, and even before the palace was furnished, the layout of the walks and groves was a constant priority. At Versailles we find Apollo, the sun god, riding his chariot amidst the spray, Neptune, the god of water and the sea, unleashing a storm, Enceladus punished for challenging Jupiter, the king of the gods...ancient mythology is used to express the greatness of Louis XIV. And the visitor today has the extraordinary experience of following an itinerary, punctuated by 'water effects', that was chosen by the sovereign himself. Fouquet, the king's former minister of finance, who spent the last years of his life in prison, was unable to believe that water would ever reach Versailles: 'Comment étaient les grandes eaux à cette fête du roi?' (How were the grandes eaux at the king's celebration?), he asks disparagingly and with resentment in Paul Morand's novel of 1961. The king watned water to be everywhere, and it is still everywhere to this day. The Grandes Eaux - when all the fountains are working - was Louis XIV's dream. Accompanied by music that was heard at Versailles for two hundred years, the event reflects the celebrations of centuries past. Sometimes, on summer evenings, lights, laster systems and fireworks are used to make the magic of the gardens even more bewitching. Entertainments organized in the gardens by Château de Versailles Spectacles take into consideration the original intentions of the Sun King and his artists. The gardens have been extensively restored. The Latona Basin has recovered its original splendor in 2015, when the Bosquet du Théâtre d’Eau (the Water Theatre grove) is also brought back to life, in a reinterpretation by Louis Benech and Jean-Michel Othoniel. The magic is perpetuated!