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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMM902288

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd March 2018

Contents

Works

Anonymous

Messe de Requiem sur des themes de Castor et Pollux (Rameau)
» Domine Jesu Christe
» Hostias et preces tibi
» Kyrie eleison
» Requiem aeternam

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Armide
» Nous ne trouvons partout que des gouffres ouvert (Act 4)
Iphigenie en Tauride
» Dieux! Protecteurs de ces affreux rivages
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Air de furies (Act 2)
» Ballet des ombres heureuses
» Dance of the Furies

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Dardanus
» Voici les tristes lieux ...Monstre affreux
Hippolyte et Aricie
» Dieux ! Que d'infortunes gemissent en ces lieux ! (Act 2)
» Je ne te verrai plus ! (Act 5)
» Qu'ai-je appris ? Puissant maitre des flots (Act 3)
» Quelle plainte
» Vous, qui de l'avenir percez la nuit profonde ... Quelle soudaine horreur (Act 2)
Les Boreades
» Entree de Polymnie (Act 4)
Les Surprises de l'Amour
» Loure (Act 2)
Zoroastre
» Ah ! Nos fureurs ne sont point vaines (Act 4)
» Air des esprits infernaux (Act 4)
» Epuisons le flanc des tristes victimes ... Ministres, redoutes du plus puissant empire (Act 4)
» Quel bonheur ! L'Enfer nous seconde (Act 4)

Rebel, Jean-Fery

Les Elemens (The Elements)
» Le Chaos

Artists

Stephane Degout (baritone)
Emmanuelle de Negri
Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Reinoud Van Mechelen
Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo
Nicolas Courjal
Thomas Dolie
Mathias Vidal
Pygmalion

Conductor

Raphael Pichon

Works

Anonymous

Messe de Requiem sur des themes de Castor et Pollux (Rameau)
» Domine Jesu Christe
» Hostias et preces tibi
» Kyrie eleison
» Requiem aeternam

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Armide
» Nous ne trouvons partout que des gouffres ouvert (Act 4)
Iphigenie en Tauride
» Dieux! Protecteurs de ces affreux rivages
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Air de furies (Act 2)
» Ballet des ombres heureuses
» Dance of the Furies

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Dardanus
» Voici les tristes lieux ...Monstre affreux
Hippolyte et Aricie
» Dieux ! Que d'infortunes gemissent en ces lieux ! (Act 2)
» Je ne te verrai plus ! (Act 5)
» Qu'ai-je appris ? Puissant maitre des flots (Act 3)
» Quelle plainte
» Vous, qui de l'avenir percez la nuit profonde ... Quelle soudaine horreur (Act 2)
Les Boreades
» Entree de Polymnie (Act 4)
Les Surprises de l'Amour
» Loure (Act 2)
Zoroastre
» Ah ! Nos fureurs ne sont point vaines (Act 4)
» Air des esprits infernaux (Act 4)
» Epuisons le flanc des tristes victimes ... Ministres, redoutes du plus puissant empire (Act 4)
» Quel bonheur ! L'Enfer nous seconde (Act 4)

Rebel, Jean-Fery

Les Elemens (The Elements)
» Le Chaos

Artists

Stephane Degout (baritone)
Emmanuelle de Negri
Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Reinoud Van Mechelen
Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo
Nicolas Courjal
Thomas Dolie
Mathias Vidal
Pygmalion

Conductor

Raphael Pichon

About

Raphaël Pichon has invited Stéphane Degout to make his recording debut for harmonia mundi in a multifaceted exploration of the Underworld. The French baritone reincarnates the figure of Henri Larrivée, the famous tragedian of Rameau and Gluck. Around a reconstruction of an imaginary Mass of the Dead, sacred and secular merge, revealing some of the most extraordinary pieces from the operatic repertory of the Enlightenment. Music of death and mourning on an epic scale that inspires Pygmalion to overwhelming heights of pathos.

A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and member of the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Lyon, Stéphane Degout quickly came to international attention in his debut as Papageno at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Since then, he has appeared on the world’s major operatic stages, namely the Opéra de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra Comique, Berlin Staatsoper, La Monnaie, Theater an der Wien, Royal Opera House, Lyric Opera Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala and the Bayerische Staatsoper. His numerous festival appearances include Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Tokyo and Los Angeles.

Raphaël Pichon began his musical training at the Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Versailles and went on to study singing, the violin and the piano at the Paris Conservatoires (CRR, CNSMDP). As a young countertenor he sang under the direction of Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, and Geoffroy Jourdain with whom he performed contemporary works.

In 2006 he founded the ensemble Pygmalion, which combines a choir and a period instrument orchestra. The ensemble’s repertoire is nurtured by the filiations that link Bach to Mendelssohn, Schütz to Brahms, and Rameau to Gluck and Berlioz. Along with this group – now an associate ensemble at the Opéra de Bordeaux – he is invited to appear at leading festivals, where he has attracted attention with his interpretations of the sacred music of Bach and the tragédies lyriques of Rameau.

Reviews

Above groaning choruses, gnashing dissonances and a thunderous period band, baritone Stéphane Degout reigns. His artistry is this projects true raison d’être. ... The period band and chorus Pygmalion complements Degout with artists of like mettle. ... Don’t miss this rollercoaster ride through the underworld!  Berta Jonus (Recording of the Month)
BBC Music Magazine June 2018
My advice to anyone buying this excellent disc is to start by ignoring the contents of the booklet (apart from the texts and translations) and going straight to playing the music. You will then enjoy a fine selection of excerpts from operas by Rameau and Gluck. ... The Pygmalion chorus comes into its own in sections of the Requiem, an anonymous adaptation from Castor et Pollux. The last one finds Degout in a rapt account of ‘Requiem aeternam’, more familiar as the soprano Télaïre’s ‘Tristes apprêts’. ... Forget the ‘end of time’ conceit and marvel at the music, so winningly performed by Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon.  Richard Lawrence
Gramophone May 2018
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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