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Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, Franck-Emmanuel Comte, Axelle Verner – 50-50 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:42 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Half Baroque, half contemporary, half French, half British: that is the challenge taken up here by Franck-Emmanuel Comte and Le Concert de L’Hostel Dieu. This recording presents in the same program pieces by Lully and by Purcell, together with contemporary creations by the Frenchman David Chalmin, inspired by Purcell, and by the British composer Martyn Harry, inspired by Lully. Both contemporary composers combine the sounds of Baroque instruments with their own expression, thus removing borders and engaging in a dialogue involving different periods and different languages. Axelle Verner lends her mezzo voice and unique personality to the vocal pieces in this program.
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Sophie Junker, Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu & Franck-Emmanuel Comte – La Francesina, Handel’s nightingale (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:42 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the French soprano Élisabeth Duparc, known as “La Francesina”, Handel composed no fewer than twelve principal roles in major works – operas and oratorios – written towards the end of his life. She took the title role in Semele, for instance, and the parts of Michal in Saul and Nitocris in Belshazzar. Nothing is known of her life: only Handel’s works remain to testify to her talent and aura. They are brought to life here by the brilliant and virtuoso voice of Sophie Junker, accompanied by Franck-Emmanuel Comte’s Concert de l’Hostel Dieu: sometimes mischievous (“Myself I shall adore”), sometimes penetrating (“In sweetest harmony they lived”), the soprano resurrects her model and magnificently digs out all the nuances of Handel’s genius. Sophie Junker and the Concert de l’Hostel Dieu pay tribute to her here through some of her most successful roles as the composer’s muse.
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