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Ensemble Les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:15 minutes | 936 MB | Genre: Classical
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Deux Te Deum en miroir : celui, très célèbre, de Marc-Antoine Charpentier ; et celui, totalement inédit, d’Henry Desmarest. Charpentier et Desmarets, de remarquables compositeurs tant dans le domaine de la musique sacrée que dans l’opéra, partagent leur goût de la musique italienne et des voyages, mais partagent également la défaveur d’avoir été quelques temps dans « l’ombre » de Jean-Baptiste Lully… Desmarest a composé deux Te Deum durant sa période lorraine, dont le Te Deum « de Lyon » totalement inédit. Écrit pour la même formation que le célèbre Te Deum de Charpentier, il utilise les trompettes et timbales pour les sections grandiloquentes.
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Ensemble les Surprises – Rebel de père en fils : Ensemble les Surprises (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:30 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classique
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Marrying stage ‘drama’ and chamber ‘concert’, this début album from Les Surprises, devised by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and Juliette Guignard, draws on 18th century French opera. Exploring a dynamic repertoire variously familiar and forgotten, bringing theatre into the salon, these enlightened, intimate arrangements will astonish, inspire and surprise.
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Ensemble Les Surprises and Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Nuit à Venise (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:45 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Venice was surely the capital of music and the arts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and one of the most coveted positions in the city was that of maestro di cappella at St Mark’s Basilica.
A few lucky chosen candidates succeeded one another in bringing to life the musical splendour of the basilica, all of them fabulous musicians and composers prolonging the legacy of the great Claudio Monteverdi.
For its third recording on Alpha, the ensemble Les Surprises has chosen to sail towards Venetian waters and mix with these geniuses of affect, word-setting and theatre, exploring music that ranges from grandiose double choruses to intimate duets or trios combining sacred and profane.
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Juliette Hurel, Maïlys De Villoutreys, Ensemble les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Bach Inspiration (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:29 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Virtuoso flautist Juliette Hurel offers us two pillars of the Cantor’s work for transverse flute: the essential Suite in B Minor for flute and strings, which ends in the world-famous Badinerie, and the unique Partita (or Sonata, the editors can’t quite decide) for solo transverse flute; and the no-less famous BWV 1013 of the 1720s. Around these twin pillars, Hurel weaves an intricate and varied tapestry, bringing in the Sonata for Trio BWV 1038, which gives every indication of being the work of Johann Sebastian, whereas it was in fact written by Carl Philipp Emanuel – or, at the very least, was a father-son collaboration. And finally we can hear the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys performing the St Matthew Passion, the “Coffee Cantata”, the Cantata “Ich habe genug” and the Easter Oratorio, in which the solo flute takes centre stage. By way of accompaniment we have the Les Surprises ensemble, a rather continuo string quintet and, on the keyboards (harpsichord and organ), we have Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.
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Ensemble les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Yves Rechsteiner – L’Héritage de Rameau (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:52 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Les Surprises were born under the lucky star of Jean-Philippe Rameau: the ensemble’s name refers to Rameau’s 1748 opéra-ballet, Surprises de l’Amour. That is why, after two first albums dedicated to Francœur and Rebel, the ensemble has decided to take on Rameau, but in a rather surprising way: by arrangement – or, if that term is a little too “varied”, by transcription. Rameau was himself a great transcriber, who re-wrote, re-modelled and re-worked many different versions of the same work throughout his life. In this way, many of his pieces for harpsichord would later find their way into his operas in the form of orchestral dances or choral pieces – and that’s only one example among many others. And so the organist Yves Rechsteiner suggested this daring gambit to the Surprises: bring (back) to life three “organ concertos” by Jean-Philippe Rameau from several of the master’s great works: Les Indes galantes, Dardanus, Hippolyte et Aricie, Platée and Zoroastre provide the framework. This allows a treatment of some of their most beautiful pieces, and at the same time, permits a proper appreciation of the organ, which at the time was an instrument in its infancy, and today is sadly rarely associated with orchestral music. This instrumental encounter creates unique colours and hues, with the organ almost taking on shades of oboe, bassoon or trumpets which mix and give a brilliance to the string section, and here and there to solo flautists. Alongside Rameau, the album presents pages of operas by François Rebel and François Francœur. Organised according to the style of the time, as a “Suite de Symphonie”, these dances are taken from the works that sealed their success: Pyrame et Thisbée, Le Ballet de la Paix, Scanderberg. Note that Rebel and Francœur, both friends of Rameau, often put on his works at their own concerts. Rechsteiner plays organ – a superb example of French late baroque art, with rich wood and brass sounds – built in 1782 by François-Henri Clicquot at Souvigny in Allier.
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Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Purcell: Tyrannic Love (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:45 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Until the late 1680s, Henry Purcell composed almost exclusively for the royal court. But when the monarchy decided to reduce its expenditure on music in 1690, he joined the United Company, a London theatre company, and devoted himself to composing for its productions. These took varied forms, with operas such as King Arthur (1691), The Fairy Queen (1692) and The Indian Queen (1695) but also spoken plays with music, such as The Virtuous Wife (1695).
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Ensemble les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Mysterien-Kantaten (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:21 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mysterien-Kantaten selects sacred cantatas by Buxtehude, Bruhns and Bernhard from the treasure trove of seventeenth-century Germany. A profound programme in which the mellow timbres of Les Surprises provide a delicate accompaniment for the voices of Maïlys de Villoutreys and Étienne Bazola.
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Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Ensemble les Surprises, Marie Perbost, Marc Mauillon – An Unexpected Mozart (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:10:18 minutes | 2,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Unfamiliar Mozart: Always curious about unjustly neglected repertoire, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas introduces us here to a Mozart we have not met. Above and beyond his church sonatas, works written on commission, pieces meant to showcase a vocalist or an instrument (such as the rarely heard glass harmonica) or as a mark of friendship with another musician, this is a veritable treasure chest of musical gems that reflect the incredible versatility of the Salzburg genius.
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Ensemble Les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Rameau chez la Pompadour. Le retour d’Astrée & Les Sybarites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:17 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical
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The famous Marquise of Pompadour, favorite of King Louis XV for almost 20 years, rules over the arts at court. Rameau, whom she particularly admires, is omnipresent. In particular, he receives a specific commission for the Théâtre des petits appartements where the marquise sings herself in the middle of a troupe mixing amateurs and professionals: Les Surprises de l’Amour, from which the ensemble Les Surprises takes its name. Under the expert direction of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, he presents here the very first recording of this ballet in its initial version of 1748, with the prologue entitled The Return of Astrée and associates with it another commission for one of the annual trips of the court to Fontainebleau: The Sybarites (1753), ballet act whose main couple is reminiscent of the king himself and his favorite. A high-flying vocal cast resurrects these two works: Marie Perbost, Eugénie Lefebvre, Jehanne Amzal, Clément Debieuvre, David Witczak, Philippe Estèphe.
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Véronique Gens, Ensemble Les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Lully, Charpentier & Desmarets: Passion (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:10 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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This programme marks the eagerly awaited return of V’eronique 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, Pers’ee, Alceste, Proserpine, Le Triomphe de l’Amour and other works by Louis XIV’s famous composer, but also several by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (M’ed’ee), Henry Desmarets and Pascal Collasse.
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