L'Opera des Operas / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel

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Release Date
January 11, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Watson, Deshayes, Mechelen, Le Concert Spirituel, Niquet
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 11, 2019
    • UPC
      3760014194429
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA442
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Titon et l'Aurore: Overture

      Composer: Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    2. Le jugement de Pâris: Air: Règne toujours …

      Composer: Toussaint Bertin de la Doue

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    3. Les fêtes d'Hébé: Pantomime

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    4. Le carnaval du Parnasse, Op. 7: Air lent et gracieux

      Composer: Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    5. Hippolyte et Aricie: Espoir, unique bien …

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    6. Achille et Déidamie: Timbales et trompettes

      Composer: André Campra

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    7. Dardanus, Act IV: Hatons-nous; courons a la glore (I must make hasts; I must run to glory)

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Reinoud Van Mechelen

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    8. Achille et Déidamie: Duet: Volez, jeune héros, volez dans les combats …

      Composer: André Campra

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes, Katherine Watson

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    9. Les fêtes d'Hébé: Air pour Mars et charge militaire

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    10. Les Amours de Tempé: Prélude

      Composer: Antoine Dauvergne

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    11. Hercule mourant, Act IV: Dieu, grand Dieu, sois sensible

      Composer: Antoine Dauvergne

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    12. Enée et Lavinie: Quel bruit affreux se fait entendre …

      Composer: Antoine Dauvergne

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    13. Les fêtes de Polymnie, Prologue (Le Temple de Memoire) Scene 1: Ce son brillant annonce la Victoire

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Katherine Watson

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    14. Le temple de la Gloire: Le chœur: Ô grandeur! ô clémence

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    15. Les fêtes d'Hébé, Act II: Eclatante trompette

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    16. Les Fêtes grecques et romaines: Duet: Aimons-nous …

      Composer: Francois Collin de Blamont

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Katherine Watson, Reinoud Van Mechelen

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    17. Hippolyte et Aricie: Recitative: Je vous entends …

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    18. Scanderberg, Act III: Tout est prêt

      Composer: François Rebel, François Francœur

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    19. Scylla et Glaucus, Op. 11: Prélude

      Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    20. Act III: Quel prix de mon amour

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    21. Act III: Noires filles du Stix

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    22. Méléagre: Prelude

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Stuck

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    23. Scylla et Glaucus, Op. 11, Act IV: Du flambeau de la nuit la clarté pâlissante

      Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    24. Alcyone: Tempête

      Composer: Marin Marais

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Reinoud Van Mechelen

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    25. Dardanus, Act IV: Lieux funestes, où tout respire (O dread abode, where all breathes)

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Karine Deshayes

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    26. Les muses: Recitative: Il n'est plus …

      Composer: André Campra

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Reinoud Van Mechelen

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    27. Callirhoé: Entr'acte

      Composer: André Cardinal Destouches

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    28. Pirame et Thisbé: Tout ce que j'adorais …

      Composer: François Francœur, François Rebel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Katherine Watson

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    29. Le carnaval de Venise: Air: Mes yeux, fermez-vous à jamais …

      Composer: André Campra

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    30. Act IV: Quels pleurs! Consolez-vous, mes fi dèles compagnes

      Composer: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    31. Prélude

      Composer: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    32. Hypermnestre: Duet: Je vous revois, princesse …

      Composer: Charles-Hubert Gervais

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Katherine Watson, Reinoud Van Mechelen

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    33. Armide, Act V: Passacaille

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Reinoud Van Mechelen

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet


To celebrate 30 years of the Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet pays homage to the French musical patrimony of the 17th and 18th centuries, to whose exploration he remains passionately devoted. In close collaboration with Benoit Dratwicki and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles – which also celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2018 –they have devised an intriguingly unconventional programme idea. Following the example of Louis XIV, who in 1671 asked Lully to create a Ballet of ballets consisting of extracts from the thirty or so ballets that the composer had put on at court, they have conceived ‘An Imaginary Opera,’ a veritable ‘Opera of Operas’: around thirty extracts, with well-known repertoire alongside rarities – some completely unknown and unpublished – have been put together to create a plot centered around three dramatic archetypes of the period: a princess in love, a witch queen (her rival) and a courageous prince. All the themes of French baroque opera are illustrated in turn, according to the rules of the genre: battle, tempest, sorcery, love duets, religious invocations, and sleep. The virtuoso arias, dazzling ballets and imposing ceremonial choruses are by Lully and Rameau, naturally – but also by Campra, Marais, Bertin de La Doué, Destouches, Stück, Gervais, Colin de Blamont, Rebel, Francœur, Montéclair, Leclair and Dauvergne. Brilliantly brought to life by the very finest of today’s baroque lyric artists, this recording was made at the Opéra Royal de Versailles.