Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegy – Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:29:16 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus (Tragédie en un prologue et cinq actes, Paris, 1746) provides an excellent opportunity for György Vashegyi, a luxury cast and music scholars at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles to revisit the French Baroque operatic canon and emerge with a fresh new take on this established work, the violin virtuoso and composer’s single offering for the Paris Opéra.
For this recording György Vashegyi has made use of the original performing manuscript of the batteur de mesure, one consequence being that the dramatic structure of the work is tightened. Here, water-god Glaucus (Cyrille Dubois) convinces the reluctant nymph, Scylla (Judith van Wanroij) of his intentions towards her, but only once he has been to visit the wicked sorceress Circé (Véronique Gens) in search of magical assistance.
A bad move, which culminates in a broken Glaucus looking out over the strait of Sicily towards a newly-formed rock formation… called Scylla.
Vashegyi’s Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra, and supporting singers, are on hand to do justice to the resulting French Baroque emotional panoply of rustic and demonic dances, welcomed and spurned love arias, and choral and divine interventions.
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Cyrille Dubois, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir & Gyorgy Vashegyi – Jouissons de nos beaux ans ! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:29 minutes | 805 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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The French tenor, Cyrille Dubois, returns to his favourite period in music: Baroque. Pursuing his mission as a trailblazer, he has teamed up with the Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles to create a recital aimed at reviving little-known treasures of the Eighteenth Century French operatic repertoire – several of the pieces are recorded here for the first time.
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Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi – Graun, Telemann & J.S. Bach: Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:53:57 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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The conductor György Vashegyi and his ensembles, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir, are fluent in various fields of baroque and classical music, with a particular predilection for French baroque opera. But one of their favourite lines of work is Lutheran sacred music, and a good example of this is this beautiful work, “Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt”, a period pasticcio with pieces by various composers. Graun (a composer at the court of Frederick II who was greatly admired by his contemporary colleagues), rubs shoulders here with Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as with a mysterious unknown, who wrote several of the most impressive passages in the work.
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Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi – Gervais: Grands Motets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:01 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Classical
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The five Grands Motets assembled by György Vashegyi for this recording represent just a small sample of the work of Charles-Hubert Gervais – a composer who worked at the court of the young King Louis XV from 1723 onwards.
Given that they were the exclusive property of the king, Gervais’ forty Motets were never published and have been preserved in their manuscript form in the Royal Library, where hundreds of other scores have been accumulated over the years. It wasn’t until 2021 that some of this rich music collection would finally be recorded and revealed to the public.
Gervais perpetuated the style of the great Versailles motet whilst simultaneously enriching it with the Italian influences that were popular at the time. His Motets enjoyed success throughout the Ancien Régime until 1792, both at the Chapelle Royale and the Concert Spirituel.
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Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi – Stölzel: Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:30 minutes | 595 MB | Genre: Classical
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After their recent releases of Conti’s Missa Sancti Pauli and Rameau’s Les Indes galantes, conductor György Vashegyi and his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir present a world premiere recording of a passion by a today virtually unknown composer, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. The name of Stölzel does not ring a bell even with the keenest lovers of Baroque music, even though he was a significant figure in the musical life of Germany in the first half of the 18th century; he was held in highest respect even by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, just to name the greatest authority of all, as documents of the time show.
The work recorded here is a so-called “passion oratorio”, a musical form widely used in the Germanspeaking world in the 18th century built upon a series of lyrical contemplations resting on the story of Christ’s passion. The libretto for Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld was written by Stölzel himself. After listening to the passion of Stölzel, one can only agree with Lorenz Mizler, founder of the “Corresponding Society of the Music Sciences and the author of an obituary for the composer: “… Germany has lost a great deal with the loss of this skillful and really great Kapellmeister, and it would be desirable that there should be many Stölzels in this regard. His name is therefore and will always be venerated not only by the Society, but by all true composers.” Though Mizler was wrong in his prophecy, as Stölzel has been forgotten until recently, recordings like the present one might start a real, if belated renaissance of Stölzel. He deserves it.
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Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra & Gyorgy Vashegyi – Montéclair: Jephté (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:22:37 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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In Jephté by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, György Vashegyi directs – with style and energy – another riveting account of a neglected French Baroque opera. The work, based on the Biblical tale of a conquering general obliged, by a sacred vow, to sacrifice his own kin, became an immediate success in 1732, indeed a fixture in opera life in France, receiving over a hundred performances at the Opéra alone in the three decades following its première.
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Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra & Gyorgy Vashegyi – Conti: Missa Sancti Pauli (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:18 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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The modern-day appreciation of Francesco Bartolomeo Conti takes a decisive turn in the direction of his church music with this early eighteenth-century composers Missa Sancti Pauli given an ideal recording on Glossa by György Vashegyi, the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra. Conti was a Florentine who worked for much of his career in the Imperial Court in Vienna, generating much attention there the ever-observant JS Bach and Zelenka were both known to have been attracted by his music.
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Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi – Les Indes Galantes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:03:41 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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With Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, György Vashegyi – along with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir – makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of French dramatic masterpieces from the Baroque, and in the company of a luxurious line-up of vocal soloists.
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