Reines

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
April 10, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Veronique Gens, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 10, 2026
    • UPC
      3701624512050
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1205
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Polyxène: Tremblement de terre

      Composer: Antoine Dauvergne

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    2. Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: Quelle plainte en ces lieux m'appelle?

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    3. Avt V: Marche funèbre

      Composer: Antoine Dauvergne

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    4. Act IV: Dieu, grand Dieu, sois sensible

      Composer: Antoine Dauvergne

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    5. Scanderberg: Overture

      Composer: François Francœur, François Rebel

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    6. Médée et Jason, Act V: Prête à porter d'horribles coups

      Composer: Joseph François Salomon

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    7. Act IV: Ah! Ne puis-je savoir

      Composer: Henry Desmarest

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    8. Act III: Où s'égarent mes pas

      Composer: Henry Desmarest

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    9. Act I: Dans notre empire

      Composer: Henry Desmarest

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    10. Act II: Tremble, Armide

      Composer: Henry Desmarest

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    11. Callirhoé, Act II: First Air of the Sacrificing Priests

      Composer: André Cardinal Destouches

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    12. Zaïde, reine de Grenade, Act III: Tyrans des cœurs

      Composer: Joseph Nicolas Pancrace Royer

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    13. Callirhoe, Act II: Second Air of the Sacrificing Priests

      Composer: André Cardinal Destouches

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    14. Canente, Act IV: Sombre déesse du silence

      Composer: Antoine Dauvergne

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    15. Chœur du sommeil

      Composer: Joseph Valette de Montigny

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    16. Act V: Quel charme me retient

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Stuck

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    17. Act V: Gouffres qui conduisez

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Stuck

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    18. Dardanus, Act I: Air tendre

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    19. Zoroastre, Act II: Amour, cruel amour

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Performer: Véronique Gens

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    20. Acante et Céphise, ou La sympathie, Act II: Premier et deuxième menuet I

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    21. Dardanus, Act IV: Air très vif

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    22. Scene 2: Rigaudon I-II

      Composer: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

    23. Scene 2: Canarie

      Composer: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair

      Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises

      Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas


After Passion (ALPHA747), Veronique Gens reunites with Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas' ensemble Les Surprises to celebrate a type of role intrinsically linked to 17th- and 18th-century French baroque opera: queens! "Operatic queens are powerful women, often torn between duty and passion, with a fundamentally complex psychology. They display a range of emotions to match the theatre's dramatic and scenic effects; they also demand above all music that is by turns intense and sophisticated." writes Benoît Dratwicki of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, a partner in this project. With Veronique Gens, one could not dream of a better embodiment of these women's destinies set to music by the most famous composers of the time (Rameau, Rebel, Dauvergne, Royer, Desmarest, Salomon, Stuck, Destouches, Francoeur...), many of whom have been unjustly forgotten.