Rameau: Les Paladins / Tournet, La Chapelle Harmonique

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Label
Château de Versailles Spectacles
Release Date
January 28, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Jean-Philippe Rameau
    • PERFORMER
      Valentin Tournet, La Chapelle Harmonique
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 28, 2022
    • UPC
      3770011431649
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CVS054
    • LABEL
      Château de Versailles Spectacles
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical

Rameau’s key forgotten comédie-lyrique is brought back to life: in 1760, at the age of 77, Les Paladins would be his last work performed in public. Inspired by the triumph of his other comedy, Platée, Rameau adds emphasis and excess, makes the orchestra gleam and the singers leap, with sharp turns in the comic tone and magnificent sentimental passages. Set in the fantastical Middle Ages, here is a comedy of characters brilliantly treated as caricatures: the beautiful Argie prisoner of the monstrous Orcan, the Paladin Atis reeing his bride, the Fairy Manto unleashing demons and furies, and transfiguring the castle with a dance of Pagodas and a Chinese entertainment! Valentin Tournet brings his magnificent soloists and the Chapelle Harmonique to life in this latest Rameau jewel!