Rameau - Les Fetes d’Hebe | Glossa GCD924012

Rameau - Les Fetes d’Hebe

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Label: Glossa

Cat No: GCD924012

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st July 2022

Contents

Artists

Chantal Santon Jeffery
Olivia Doray
Judith van Wanroij
Reinoud Van Mechelen
Mathias Vidal
David Witczak
Marie Perbost
Philippe Estephe
Lorant Najbauer
Purcell Choir
Orfeo Orchestra

Conductor

Gyorgy Vashegyi

Works

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Les Fetes d'Hebe

Artists

Chantal Santon Jeffery
Olivia Doray
Judith van Wanroij
Reinoud Van Mechelen
Mathias Vidal
David Witczak
Marie Perbost
Philippe Estephe
Lorant Najbauer
Purcell Choir
Orfeo Orchestra

Conductor

Gyorgy Vashegyi

About

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opéra-ballet Les Fêtes d’Hébé gains a stirring and bright-coloured new recording from a starry line-up of soloists, György Vashegyi, his Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra

Though first performed at the end of the 1730s – between the two tragédies of Castor et Pollux and Dardanus – this work has received much less modern recognition for its qualities than either of the other two, although it had a substantial success with its first run of over 70 performances; an entertainment mixing delight and longing, underpinned by Rameau’s colourful and sophisticated orchestration and coupled with his supremely inspired pastoral writing. Now, with a new edition prepared by Pascal Denécheau (who also writes the booklet essay here), this new production presents modern-day stars of the French Baroque in Chantal Santon Jeffery, Olivia Doray, Judith van Wanroij, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Mathias Vidal and David Witczak.

They all relish in a libretto (peopled by characters from mythology and the Ancient World) which aims at celebrating the artistic aptitudes to be found on the stage of the Opéra in Paris: Poetry, Music and Dance (from which derives the opera's subtitle of “Les Talents lyriques”).

This new recording presents the June 1739 version of this opéra ballet (whilst embracing changes made in revivals from across subsequent decades), and additionally includes the original version of the second entrée, “La Musique”.

Cast:
- Hébé, Sapho, La Bergère, Une Lacédémonienne: Chantal Santon Jeffery
- L’Amour, Églé: Marie Perbost
- Une Naïade, Iphise (2nd version): Olivia Doray
- Iphise (1st version): Judith van Wanroij
- Momus, Un Ruisseau, Mercure: Reinoud Van Mechelen
- Lycurgue: Mathias Vidal
- Hymas, Tyrtée (2nd version): Philippe Estèphe
- Alcée, Eurilas, Tyrtée (1st version): David Witczak
- La Fleuve, L’Oracle: Lóránt Najbauer

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