Le Concert Spirituel: A 25th Anniversary Celebration
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD921626
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 22nd October 2012
Contents
Artists
Le Concert SpirituelConductor
Herve NiquetArtists
Le Concert SpirituelConductor
Herve NiquetAbout
And so Le Concert Spirituel was born, now celebrating its quarter century, its vocal and instrumental forces constantly delighting audiences with its joyous celebration of music from the 17th and 18th centuries (and now with Charles-Simon Catel’s Sémiramis, the dawn of the 19th).
To mark the anniversary, Glossa is now issuing an attractively-priced double-disc celebration, with Niquet pulling out the stops from across Le Concert Spirituel’s broad and expansive range (and he started musical life as an organist, after all): Baroque sacred music, Marc-Antoine Charpentier assuredly; selections from Le Concert Spirituel’s “re-oxygenation”, as he calls it, of the tragédie lyrique (Grétry, Campra, Destouches), but also demonstrations of his own nimble-footed theatrical tendency (Niquet is an avowed fan of the musichall!) in Handel, Purcell and Striggio.
Musical ostentation and bravura are concluded on each disc by some of Niquet’s own special bonnes bouches: Boismortier, D’Agincour, Marais and excerpts from his 'other' Charpentier (Gustave). All accompanied by a sparkling apéritif from the conductor himself about how Le Concert Spirituel came to reach its 25th anniversary!
Contents:
CD 1
I. MUSIQUE RELIGIEUSE
Pierre Bouteiller
Missa pro defunctis
01. Prélude (Henri Frémart)
02. Elevatio: Pie Jesu
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Missa Assumpta est Maria
03. Gloria
04. Credo: Credo in unum Deum – Patrem omnipotentem
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy
05. Agnus Dei
06. Envoi
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Messe à huit voix
07. Prélude da capo – Kyrie da capo – Sinfonie pour finir le Kyrie
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum à huit voix
08. Te aeternum
09. Tibi Cherubim
10. Pleni sunt caeli
II. DÉMESURE
George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Ouverture. Adagio
12. Ouverture. Allegro
Alessandro Striggio
Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno
13. Gloria
14. Agnus Dei
Henry Purcell
King Arthur
15. Act III Symphony
16. Act IV Sirens: Two daughters of this aged stream
17. Act IV Passacaglia - How happy the lover
18. Act IV Symphony
Véronique Gens (soprano) / Hanna Bayodi (soprano) / Béatrice Jarrige (alto) / Cyril Auvity (high tenor) / Joseph Cornwell (tenor) / Peter Harvey (bass)
III. JARDIN SECRET
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Sonate VI à quatre parties
19. Adagio – Allegro – Largo – Allegro
François d’Agincour
Pièces de clavecin dédiées à la reine
20. Second Ordre. Chaconne: La Sonning
Hervé Niquet (harpsichord) / Caroline Delume (baroque guitar)
Gustave Charpentier
La Vie du poète
21. Acte I «Enthousiasme» (frag.)
Flemish Radio Choir / Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Gilbert
22. Air pour Célestin
Hervé Niquet (voice)
CD 2
IV. OPÉRAS
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Daphnis & Chloé
01. Act II Musette
02. Act II Air gai et gracieux: Que l’absence...
03. Act II Musette: Que loin...
04. Act II Rondeau: De l’Amour...
05. Act II Tambourin
06. Act II Chœur: Vents orageux
Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) / Marie-Louise Duthoit (soprano) / François-Nicolas Geslot (high tenor)
Henry Purcell
Dido & Aeneas
07. Act II Sorceress: Wayward sisters
08. Act II Witches: But ere we this perform
09. Act II Chorus: In our deep-vaulted cell
Laura Pudwell (mezzo-soprano)
André Cardinal Destouches
Callirhoé
10. Act I Scène première: O nuit témoin...
11. Act II Scène première: Espoir, revenez...
12. Act II Scène cinquième: Quel coup...
13. Act V. Scène troisième: Ah! Prince, ...
Stéphanie d’Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) / Cyril Auvity (high tenor) / João Fernandes (bass)
Marin Marais
Sémélé
14. Act III Prélude et récit: Tremble des maux...
15. Act III Air: Amour, régnez en paix
16. Act III Prélude et récit: Terrible Roy...
17. Act III Symphonie
18. Act III Récit: Le charme est fait
19. Act III Chœur et récit: Ordonne...
20. Act III Chœur: Qu’un affreux ravage...
21. Act III Air pour les furies
22. Act III Récit: Cesse ; je ne puis plus résister
Shannon Mercer (soprano) / Hjördis Thébault (mezzo-soprano)
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Andromaque
23. Act III Combat
24. Act III Hermione: Quels cris...
25. Act III Oreste: Princesse, c’en est fait !
26. Act III Hermione: Barbare, ne voyais-tu pas
27. Act III Oreste: Est-ce Hermione ?
28. Act III Choeur: Ô fureur !
29. Act III Choeur: Sauvons-le de sa fureur !
30. Act III Oreste: Filles d’enfer...
31. Act III Choeur: Dieux implacables...
Maria-Riccarda Wesseling (mezzo-soprano) / Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)
André Campra
Le Carnaval de Venise
32. Prologue. Premier et second passepied
33. Acte I La Vénitienne
34. Acte II Premier et second canaries
35. Acte III Marche des gondoliers
36. Acte III Rigaudon
37. Orfeo nell’inferi: Sinfonia
38. Orfeo nell’inferi: Aria per gli spirti folletti
39. Le Bal: Marche du Carnaval
40. Le Bal: Bourrée
41. Le Bal: Menuets en rondeau
42. Le Bal; Chaconne
Mathias Vidal (high tenor)
V. MES PETITS BIJOUS PRÉFÉRÉS
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Daphnis & Chloé
43. Acte III Chaconne
Marin Marais
Sémélé
44. Prologue. Troisième air pour les Ménades
André Cardinal Destouches
Callirhoé
45. Act IV Premier air des bergers
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