Passion - Lully, Charpentier & Desmarets / Gens, Camboulas, Ensemble Les Surprises

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHARPENTIER DESMARETS LULLY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Les Surprises
    • PERFORMER
      Gens, Camboulas
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 27, 2021
    • UPC
      3760014197475
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA747
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act III: Toi qui dans ce tombeau

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    2. Act I: Prélude

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    3. Achille et Polyxène: Calme tes déplaisirs

      Composer: Pascal Collasse

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    4. Thétis et Pélée: Tempête

      Composer: Pascal Collasse

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    5. Circé: Désirs, transports

      Composer: Henry Desmarets

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    6. Proserpine: Deuxième air

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    7. Le temple de la paix Suite: VII. Entrée des Bretons et Brettones, passepieds

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    8. Act III: Ô malheureuse mère …

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    9. Act III: Que tout se ressente de la fureur …

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    10. Atys, LWV 53, Act III: Ritournelle: Espoir si cher et si doux

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    11. La naissance de Vénus, Part II: Dieu des enfers Écoutez mes peines

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    12. Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Canaries

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    13. Armide, Act II: Enfin il est en ma puissance

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    14. Persée: Ouverture

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    15. Le triomphe de l'amour: Air de la nuit: Voici le favorable temps …

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    16. La Diane de Fontainebleau: Choeur du sommeil

      Composer: Henry Desmarets

      Ensemble: Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    17. Act III: Pompe funèbre

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    18. Act III: La mort, la mort barbare

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    19. Act III: Quel prix de mon amour

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    20. Act III: Noires filles du Stix

      Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

      Ensemble: Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    21. Le triomphe de l'amour: Air pour l'entrée de borée et des quatre vents

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas


Shortlisted for the Gramophone Awards!

This programme marks the eagerly awaited return of Véronique Gens to Baroque music and Lully, in which she made a name for herself at the start of her career. It presents airs from Atys, Persée, Alceste, Proserpine, Le Triomphe de l’Amour and other works by Louis XIV’s famous composer, but also several by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Médée), Henry Desmarets and Pascal Collasse. Whether well known, rare or in some cases even unpublished, all of them present roles for powerful women whose love is unrequited: dark passions, bitter laments, jealousy, vengeance, the type of dramatic characters that Véronique Gens embodies with all the charisma that has made her reputation. This recording is also the result of an encounter with the youthful ensemble Les Surprises, founded and directed by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas. Together they conceived this programme, which mingles airs, dances and choruses, in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

 

REVIEW:

 

The voice remains in remarkable condition, as strongly radiant, firm and secure as ever with powerful chest notes. And of course the characteristics that have made her so prized in this repertoire, the perfect shaping of line and outstanding diction, remain, still more finely honed.

 

– Opera