Lully - Alceste
£22.75
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Label: Aparte
Cat No: AP164
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 26th January 2018
Contents
Artists
Judith van WanroijEdwin Crossley-Mercer
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Bre Williams
Etienne Bazola
Benedicte Tauran
Lucia Martin-Carton
Enguerrand de Hys
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Les Talens Lyriques
Conductor
Christophe RoussetWorks
Alceste, LWV50Artists
Judith van WanroijEdwin Crossley-Mercer
Emiliano Gonzales Toro
Bre Williams
Etienne Bazola
Benedicte Tauran
Lucia Martin-Carton
Enguerrand de Hys
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Les Talens Lyriques
Conductor
Christophe RoussetAbout
In addition to the choir, the nine soloists, directed with energy and finesse by Christophe Rousset, present here characters with passions more real than life. The libretto is based on a Cornelian dilemma. This timeless theme of a thwarted love moves us all the more because of the clarity of the text and the amplification of emation in the score. Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques recording is an interpretation where theatre and music combine in jubilant harmony.
Reviews
Directing from the harpsichord, Christophe Rousset brings just the right balance of spontaneity and refinement to this recording. Oustanding among the stylish cast are Judith Van Wanroij as the eponymous heroine, her delivery pliant and lucid, her satin tones persuasively seductive, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Admète), whose chameleon tenor has an emotive expressive range... and Edwin Crossley-Mercer, a lustrous-toned Alcide. ... Most compelling of all, though, is the Namur Chamber Choir, whose singing is by turns rapt and silky, agile and urgent. Kate Bolton-Porciatti (Opera Choice)
Few if any conductors match Christophe Rousset’s understanding of Lullian style and rhetoric; and few could complain that he tweaks the sparse orchestration here and there when the effect is so theatrically vivid. ... In the title-role Judith Van Wanroij, with a touch of metal in her limpid tone, seems ideally cast, bringing a mingled intensity and delicacy of inflection to her moving laments in Acts 2 and 3. ... it is hard to imagine this music, often delightful, sometimes witty, intermittently touching, coming alive more vividly than it does here. Richard Wigmore
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