Bernier - Trois Visages d’Hecate: French Cantatas
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Label: Etcetera
Cat No: KTC1576
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st December 2017
Contents
Artists
Lieselot De Wilde (soprano)Apotheosis
Conductor
Korneel BernoletWorks
Apollon or The God of Day, Night and ComusDiane
L'Aurore
L'Enlevement de Proserpine
Medee
Artists
Lieselot De Wilde (soprano)Apotheosis
Conductor
Korneel BernoletAbout
One of the first composers to venture into this new genre was Nicolas Bernier, a pupil of Antonio Caldara. Bernier’s musical mastery far surpassed that of his colleagues: whereas others simply imitated the Italian genre without much inspiration of their own, Bernier was able to combine it with the finest elements of the French style. He composed seven volumes of cantatas that continued to be performed until the outbreak of the French Revolution, of which the great majority have not yet been recorded. We have chosen three cantatas, Diane, L’enlèvement de Proserpine and Médée, to record here. These mythological women are each an incarnation of Hecate, the three-faced goddess: she appears as Diana, patron of the hunt, as Proserpine, goddess of the night, and as Medea, Hecate’s own high priestess.
Musically speaking, Diane from Bernier’s first volume of cantatas is his airiest work, composed for voice and continuo. A mysterious opening and a first aria with sleep as its theme soon develop into an exuberant second aria, before coming to a swift conclusion with a characteristically 18th-century moral.
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