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Ses plus grandes chansons

Jean Ferrat

French Music - Released February 28, 2020 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Praetorius dances

Capella de la Torre

Classical - Released June 18, 2021 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Georges Brassens chante les chansons poétiques (et souvent gaillardes) N°1

Georges Brassens

French Music - Released January 1, 2010 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Gilles Binchois - Chansons

Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Classical - Released February 2, 1998 | Warner Classics

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ALIBERT (Ses Plus Belles Chansons)

Alibert

World - Released October 1, 1950 | Alibert & co

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Ses plus belles chansons et comptines

Jacqueline Farreyrol

Miscellaneous - Released December 1, 2023 | Formulette Production

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Les plus belles chansons à la guitare

Musique Classique Maestro Mozy

Children - Released March 31, 2023 | Loulou & Lou

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Lully: Thésée

Les Talens Lyriques

Opera - Released October 13, 2023 | Aparté

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Christophe Rousset and his Les Talens Lyriques continue their exploration of the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully for the Aparte label with 1675's Thésée ("Theseus"), the composer's third "tragédie en musique" with librettist by Philippe Quinault. Commissioned by King Louis XIV, the libretto recounts some early-life exploits of the titular character from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It was immensely popular for more than a century before finding itself in less demand than later, more compact versions of Quinault's text, which were set by composers such as Handel (Teseo, 1712). What is there for a king and his court not to like when the Prologue declares the king a god and sings the praises of king and kingdom? Rousset has his Les Talens Lyriques in fine form, and the ensemble plays crisply and concisely throughout. Rousset, conducting from the harpsichord, keeps the action moving in this colossal and dramatic work. The soloists, especially mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes as Médée ("Medea") and tenor Mathias Vidal as the titular Thésée, display clear expertise in the realm of early French opera. This work is a major vehicle for mezzos in the role of the jealous sorceress Médée, and Deshayes is splendid. The Prologue has some awkward, almost hesitant singing from the chorus, but as the work progresses, the Chœur de chambre de Namur becomes stronger and, in the end, proves to be an asset to the whole (consider their turn as the inhabitants of the underworld with Deshayes on "Sortez, ombres, sortez de la nuit éternelle" from Act Two). This is a worthy addition of a lesser-known opera to the growing Lully collection from Les Talens Lyriques.© Keith Finke /TiVo
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Lully: Acis et Galatée

Les Talens Lyriques

Opera - Released October 14, 2022 | Aparté

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Composed on 1686 as part of the festivities organised by the Duc de Vendôme in honour of the Grand Dauphin, during the latter’s visit to his estate at the Château d’Anet in September of that year, Acis et Galatée is Lully’s last complete opera. His faithful librettist Quinault having retired from writing for the stage, he collaborated this time with the poet Campistron on a work that tells the story of the love between the sea-nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis – a love threatened by the violence of the jealous cyclops Polyphemus. This opera, an undoubted dramatic success, gives the orchestra an important part, expressively evoking, for example, the giant’s cries of anger, the terror of the chorus, and the lovers’ hasty flight in Act III. It includes some magnificent pieces, including the final Passacaille, as well as inventive treasures, such as duet for hautes-contre (high tenors) “Ah! je succombe au tourment qui m'accable”, or the burlesque march that accompanies the entry of Polyphemus and his fellow cyclopes, conveying their uncouthness. But the loveliest pieces in the score are for Galatea: “Enfin, j’ai dissipé la crainte”, for instance, or “Que ne puis-je expirer après ce coup funeste?”. Lully died in March 1687, a few months after the première, leaving Achille et Polyxène unfinished. © Aparté
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So Romantique !

Cyrille Dubois

Classical - Released March 10, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Rameau : Les Indes Galantes

György Vashegyi

Full Operas - Released March 1, 2019 | Glossa

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With Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, György Vashegyi – along with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir – makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of French dramatic masterpieces from the Baroque, and in the company of a luxurious line-up of vocal soloists. The version of this “ballet heroïque” – supplied with an anti-colonial, anti-clerical manifesto by librettist Louis Fuzelier – selected by Vashegyi is the 1761 revision, a mere decade or so before the irruption onto the Parisian musical scene of the likes of Gluck and Grétry. Rameau’s score had undergone frequent adjustments and improvements since its première a quarter of a century earlier, and the performing edition for this recording, prepared for the Rameau Opera Omnia by Sylvie Bouissou (who also provides a booklet essay here), offers a vision of this work which is more theatrical, fluid and concise than hitherto. Just in themselves, the names of Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Katherine Watson, Véronique Gens, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Jean-Sébastien Bou and Thomas Dolié (sharing out the dozen solo roles) augur well for a glorious exploration of the prologue and three entrées ahead. Recently, they have also, in conjunction with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, been working on questions of tempo and how to perform Rameau’s sequences as the composer intended. Vashegyi brings a consummate understanding of Rameau’s galante style to the proceedings, following two previous Ramellian Glossa outings (Naïs and Les Fêtes de Polymnie). © Glossa

Chansons de rappel - Maxime Le Forestier chante Brassens

Maxime Le Forestier

French Music - Released October 22, 2021 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Une sorcière comme les autres

Anne Sylvestre

French Music - Released May 10, 2004 | Epm

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Oh, ma belle brunette

A Nocte Temporis - Reinoud Van Mechelen

Classical - Released May 27, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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The term "brunette" refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. The genre evolved from the air de cour, extremely popular in France since the beginning of the seventeenth century. The compositional process, however, remained very similar: to write a short, tender song, dealing with themes of love or nature, which could be sung alone or accompanied by a harmonic instrument. The late seventeenth century also saw the appearance of an instrument that soon became a favourite of composers and amateur musicians: the German flute, now called the traverso or Baroque flute. In this new programme, tenor Reinoud van Mechelen, flautist Anna Besson and A nocte temporis present an anthology of airs and brunettes ranging from the most touching song to the heartiest drinking song (air à boire). © Alpha Classics
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Debussy: Harmonie du soir, mélodies & songs

Alain Planès

Classical - Released August 24, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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This fine album centred on Debussy, entitled, Harmonie du soir (it is now the fashion to give classical releases titles of their own) presents a bouquet of melodies mostly dedicated to the nocturnes of which Debussy was so fond. It has a romantic opening, with the Nocturnes by John Field, and then by Chopin and Fauré. The programme is a delight for the ears , with a certain, rather precious, "je ne sais quoi" alongside the consummate articulation and diction offered by both Sophie Karthäuser and Stéphane Degout, two artists at the dazzling height of their maturity. The evocative, tender, liquid piano of both Alan Planès and Eugène Asti also provides an air of great expansiveness. The melodies emerge very subtly, helped along by performers who possess a deep knowledge of the unique world of French mélodie which Debussy renewed with the novelty of his harmonies and an often-demanding choice of lyrics, from Baudelaire or Mallarmé. This is yet another fantastic contribution from the harmonia mundi team to the year of Debussy. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41

Orfeo Orchestra

Opera - Released May 20, 2022 | Glossa

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This album offers a fresh take on the fruitful collaboration between Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV). Recorded in Budapest after a series of concerts in Europe (under the artistic supervision of Benoît Dratwicki, conductor of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), this new version of Jean-Phillipe Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé (ou Les talents lyriques) doesn’t only offer the opera-ballet in its entirety, but also includes the original two versions of the Deuxième entrée.Little is known about how this work was created or the circumstances it was created in, but it was an immediate and lasting success. It was performed a total of 341 times, a substantial number for its time. However, the piece was plagued by a rather poor libretto, which led to the opera-ballet being reworked several times with changes being made to both the music and the lyrics. Despite being a little inconsistent, the work still contains some very moving arias and heroic music that’s full of energy and vigour (particularly in Deuxième Entrée, revised by Rameau).Here, György Vashegyi, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir (alongside an incredible cast featuring Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Marie Perbost and Reinoud Van Mechelen to name but a few) offer us an unpublished version of this rare work. This new recording benefits from the latest musicological research and a new edition of the work provided by the Société Jean-Philippe Rameau, a partner of CMBV. This is just one more advancement in our understanding of French baroque music. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Vous avez dit Brunettes ?

Les Kapsber'girls

Classical - Released October 15, 2021 | Alpha Classics

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Les Kapsber’girls, an ensemble of four singers and instrumentalists directed by the lutenist Albane Imbs, has already released its debut album (Che fai tù?, released on Muso) which received several awards. The group now joins Alpha for several recordings, starting with "Vous avez dit Brunettes?" – "brunettes" being the name of the chansons that lovers crooned in each others’ ears by the Bassin d’Apollon or among the groves of the Petit Trianon at Versailles Palace, undeniably light in character yet powerfully authentic. Seventeenth-century France was home to a host of artists whose talent served the nobility and the bourgeoisie, who were extremely partial to these airs. Performing them as vocal solos or duets with lute or viol, Les Kapsber’girls bring back to life, more than three centuries later, these works published by Ballard & Fils, printers to the Sun King, alongside such little-known composers as Julie Pinel and Giuseppe Saggione. © Alpha Classics
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A Quoi ça Rime ?

TSR Crew

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released October 22, 2007 | Chambre Froide

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Ses plus belles chansons

Sylvain Lelièvre

Folk/Americana - Released January 1, 1991 | GSI Musique

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Les plus célèbres chants d'église, Vol. 2

Ensemble Vocal l'Alliance

Sacred Vocal Music - Released March 3, 1998 | ADF Musique