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Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset – Antonio Salieri : Les Horaces (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:39 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques release the first world recording of Antonio Salieri’s Les Horaces, which they recreated at Versailles in 2016!
To bring this score to life again, Christophe Rousset gathers a dream vocal cast: tenor Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij, Julien Dran or Jean-Sebastien Bou embody the fate of the characters inspired by the fratricidal struggle of Horatius and Curiatius in Ancient Rome, dramatically revived by an already romantic Salieri in his musical boldness.
Fights, vows and great crowd scenes, the tears heroine Camilla, the Curiatius’ dilemma, or the implacable determination of old Horatius offer intense and original drama.
A rarity and an absolute discovery!
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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques – Psyché (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:24:24 minutes | 2,74 GB | Genre: Classical
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Vénus, irritée par la jeune mortelle Psyché dont la beauté irradie le monde, envoie l’Amour pour lui imposer mille épreuves, que la jeune victime surmonte jusqu’à devenir immortelle. Dans cette fable mythologique qui est sa sixième tragédie lyrique (1678), Lully déploie son immense talent, et se venge de Molière pour lequel il avait écrit en 1671 la musique d’une Psyché monumentale, qui causa leur rupture. Fin connaisseur de Lully, Christophe Rousset dirige une distribution somptueuse qui donne à sa Psyché tout le lustre des grands opéras français !
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Cyrille Dubois, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques – Couperin: The Sphere of Intimacy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:51 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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Heavenly Handel – a spiritual love story. The mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, who was awarded the Opus Klassik as “Singer of the Year 2022”, once again realized a joint project together with the lutenist Thomas Dunford and his young, playful ensemble Jupiter – the dream team of the award-winning album Amazone: with this album they present arias and duets from the operatic oratorios of Georg Friedrich Händel and develop their own story from it.
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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques – Rameau: Pygmalion & Les Fêtes de Polymnie (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:04 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christophe Rousset and the Talens Lyriques bring us to the stage of the Royal Academy of Music where Pygmalion, an act of ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau inspired by an episode of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, was created in 1748. Love, showing empathy for Pygmalion’s despair of loving a statue, invigorates the sculpted woman who immediately falls in love with her creator. Very suggestive, the music of this tender and mischievous ballet deploys the grace of 18th century dances. Like Ovid’s Love, Christophe Rousset instils life in this score, one of Rameau’s greatest successes in his day, and offers us, thanks to his sense of drama and his impeccable leadership, a new and essential reading of this ballet.
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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques – Lully: Alceste (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:55 minutes | 2,78 GB | Genre: Classical
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Everyone thinks that they know Alceste by Lully, and yet this 1674 masterpiece has almost never been recorded in its entirety. Apart from the Malgoire version from 1975 with Bruce Brewer and Felicity Palmer, which is starting to become outdated, the real treat is a second versoin by the same Malgoire twenty years later with Jean-Philippe Lafont and Colette Alliot-Lugaz… And so we can only take our hats off to the new discographical opus from Christophe Rousset’s Talens Lyriques, a lively and elegant reading which allows us to rediscover everything that was so innovative about this brilliant, effervescent Florentine, who would become a typical Versaillais, a courtesan and a wheeler-dealer. King Louis XIV – 36 years old, still with all his own teeth and a victorious war leader – could only feel flattered by the piece signed by Quinault: Alcide, who covets the beautiful Alceste (who has been promised to Admetus), is none other than Hercules himself – Louis XIV seeing himself in Hercules saving the beautiful Madame de Montespan from the clutches of her husband.
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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques – Rameau: Zaïs (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:36:54 minutes | 2,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 1745, the King of France granted Jean-Philippe Rameau the title of ‘Composer to the Court’, coupled with a healthy pension. This new period produced pieces of a much lighter character, with Rameau working alongside the librettist Louis de Cahusac, and the resulting collaborations are now counted amongst the Burgundian musician’s greatest masterpieces. Zaïs was presented on the stage of the Royal Academy of Music in 1748. This heroic ballet offers French music some of its most beautiful movements, both vocally and instrumentally. The entire work is a meditation on its famous opening chaos, and succeeds, surprisingly, through its theatrical stamp and in the audacity of the writing. The plot is, perhaps, tenuous – a lover (Zaïs) is in the throes of affection for his beloved (Zélidie), determining to cherish her – which serves as the pretext for endless entertainment, dancing, and the work’s magical character. Today, it remains surprising that a work as sumptuous as Rameau’s Zaïs is neglected in favour of the Indes Galantes or Hippolyte et Aricie. It is paradoxical, then, that in 1970 Gustav would combine the small amount of French music he truly appreciated with a reassessment of the beauties of this work. Gustav created a fascinating recording with La Petite Bande Sigiswald Kuijken (STIL), which has now become a true rarity, despite its questionable vocalists. Happily for us, Christophe Rousset, who cherishes Rameaus’s older work, has dedicated himself to it, and offers us this gorgeously captured rendition, with French singers working under the direction of his sharp and witty leadership. The opening of the Les Talens Lyriques recital is far more vivid than anything that has been achieved in over twenty years for L’Oiseau-Lyre, in which theOuverture immediately sets the tone. Rousset completely captures the brilliance of the score, and his imagination – which here seems insatiable – liberates his singers, who are boundlessly invested in this work; complicit in a musical resurrection. An enchantment of sorts? No. A whirlwind, rather.
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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques & Stéphane Degout – Couperin: Ariane consolée par Bacchus, Apothéoses de Lully & de Corelli (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:08 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques and Stéphane Degout – F. Couperin: Ariane consolée par Bacchus, Apothéoses de Lully & de Corelli: The genius of François Couperin (1668-1733) whispers precious secrets in Christophe Rousset’s ear, which he reveals to us in this new recording. Here, the cantata Ariane consolée par Bacchusis unveiled in preview, served by a dream cast.
Whereas in early September Actes Sud will publish the monograph he devoted to François Couperin, Christophe Rousset wanted to carry out the project of recording the composer’s complete (or almost!) catalogue. This first release on the Aparté label is the forerunner of a boxed set on the occasion of the composer’s 250th birthday.
Couperin came from a dynasty of musicians very much in the public eye, starting with the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV. This dynasty would remain important after the death of Francois Couperin, who was called Couperin le Grand (‘the Great’). Even though chosen personally by the Sun King, the musician’s life was not particularly interesting, going from the organ of St-Gervais in Paris to that of the Chapelle Royale at Versailles. Although France quickly forget him after his death, which coincided with the affirmation of Rameau’s genius, the Germans, following J. S. Bach, would consider him the most accomplished expression of French genius in the 18th century.
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Teodora Gheorghiu, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset – Arias for Anna De Amicis (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:20:32 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Classical
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Romanian soprano Teodora Gheorghiu is apparently a friend of, but unrelated to, opera star Angela Gheorghiu, but this release suggests she deserves to be as well known as her compatriot. On this Harmonia Mundi release she chooses a program that few other singers have attempted: a Classical-period equivalent to the collections of virtuoso (or virtuosa) Baroque arias that even big-name singers have essayed. All of the music was composed for Neapolitan-born singer Anna de Amicis, in full Anna-Lucia de Amicis-Buonosolazzi. There are some real finds here, including the Mozartian style and sheer acrobatics of the aria “Sorprender mi vorresti” from the 1773 opera Romolo ed Ersilia by Josef Myslivecek, otherwise known largely for his instrumental music. You could choose this album purely for the four selections from the rarely performed Lucio Silla by the 16-year-old Mozart, written during the composer’s Italian sojourn and delayed until de Amicis arrived in Milan. Gheorghiu has a real feeling for the new freedom in the music of Gluck, the young Mozart, and Nicolò Jommelli, delivering the words naturally and dramatically. In the blistering “E frat tante tempest … Se balena” by the virtually unknown Pasquale Cafaro, she is equal to some of the most difficult long arias in the Classical repertory. But it is not just in the extremes where Gheorghiu excels: the middle of her range has an uncanny sense of power in reserve, and her unornamented melodic lines are deeply musical. The support Gheorghiu receives from the historical-instrument group Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset is nothing short of ideal, with the smooth yet tough strings complementing her voice beautifully. Sample and enjoy. –James Manheim, AllMusic
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Ann Hallenberg, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset – Farinelli (Live) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:38 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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With more than one million copies sold, the original soundtrack of Gérard Corbiau’s film Farinelli established the international reputation of Les Talens Lyriques. In 1994, in order to reinvent the voice of Carlo Broschi aka Farinelli (1705-1782), a computer was used to mix the timbres of Derek Lee Ragin, countertenor, and Ewa Mallas-Godlewska, soprano. No less would have been sufficient to incarnate the octaves and the phenomenal power of this singer, history’s first rock star.
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