Cantates et Petits Macarons
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Label: Evoe Music
Cat No: EVOE002
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th October 2015
Contents
Works
La Muse de l'opera ou les Caracteres lyriquesLe Parnasse, ou L'Apotheose de Corelli, grande sonade en trio
Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris
Monteclair, Michel Pignolet de
Le Retour de la PaixLe berger fidele
Artists
Natalia Kawalek (mezzo-soprano)About
This CD contains masterpieces of the best masters of French Baroque secular cantatas - Montéclair, Rameau, Clerambault - and fantastic instrumental chamber music of the genius Couperin, and Marais.
The combination of composers and choice of repertoire gives a very colourful, diverse and exciting program. With the works of Clérambault, Montéclair and Rameau, the French Cantata reached a peak, pushing the limits of its theatricality and becoming increasingly more operatic. On the one hand, these composers borrow the varied pace, exuberance and quick modulations from the Italian style; on the other hand, they expand the instrumental parts, using trumpets, horns, violins and even timpani, far from being a mere accompaniment to the story.
Marin Marais was one of the first to introduce trio compositions, typically used by the Italians, into France. His famous Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris (Bells of St. Genevieve in the Hills of Paris) is an amazing example of virtuosity on the viola da gamba.
François Couperin, less engaged with cantata writing than his contemporaries, is one of the most important chamber music composers of the French Baroque, in which he reaches an artistic peak with Les Gouts Reunis and L'Apothéose de Corelli.
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