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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

Les étoiles vagabondes : expansion

Nekfeu

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 6, 2019 | Universal Music Division Carthage Music

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Nymphes

Virginie Thomas

Miscellaneous - Released May 26, 2023 | L'Encelade

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Rameau : Castor et Pollux

Raphaël Pichon

Full Operas - Released April 27, 2015 | harmonia mundi

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Meyerbeer: Le prophète

Aalto Theatre Opera Chorus

Opera - Released March 2, 2018 | Oehms Classics

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No-one could really say that Meyerbeer's Le Prophète boasts an ample discography: two recordings with Marilyn Horne, one in 1970 alongside Gedda, the other in 1976 with a different distributor — both directed by Harry Lewis, and both available on Qobuz of course — but apart from that, and a few isolated airs that can be dug up here or there, it is a total desert. What a tragedy! So let's raise a hearty cheer for this new recording from Giuliano Carella, who leads the Essen Philharmonic. And regardless of the oblivion that the score fell into in the late 19th century, it was an unlikely international hit in the decades after its first outing in 1849, gracing all the biggest stages of Europe (600 performances in Paris, 300 in Berlin, 180 in Vienna, 150 in London, etc.), North America, South America, Oceania, Russia... It was performed at state occasions; a thousand composers took the themes as the basis for their own fantasias, variations, paraphrases and whatever took their fancy. And then Wagner and Verdi flooded the market: and even if both bore a heavy debt to Meyerbeer, the work was eclipsed and never really resurfaced. And yet: what orchestral richness, what dramatic and lyrical imagination! For the coronation scene, the composer brought eighteen saxhorns onto the stage; endless timbales, percussion in every corner, and scene after scene, Meyerbeer invents shed loads of truly Berliozian orchestral effects: a deluge of special sound effects worthy of a Hollywood studio. Note also that the recording was made at a public concert. © SM/Qobuz
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Entre-deux

Patrick Bruel

French Music - Released June 1, 2002 | RCA Records Label

L'album de sa vie 100 titres

Johnny Hallyday

French Music - Released September 28, 2018 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Enfantillages (Live)

Aldebert

Children - Released October 27, 2008 | Note A Bene

Les étoiles vagabondes : expansion

Nekfeu

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 6, 2019 | Universal Music Division Carthage Music

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Jean-Baptiste Lully : Phaéton

Christophe Rousset

Classical - Released October 16, 2013 | Aparté

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Les Années Bechet

Sidney Bechet

Traditional Jazz & New Orleans - Released May 6, 1997 | Vogue

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Album Delpech

Michel Delpech

French Music - Released January 1, 1970 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Premiers amours

Nour

French Music - Released June 2, 2023 | Universal Music Division MCA

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Entre-deux (À l'Olympia)

Patrick Bruel

French Music - Released June 1, 2003 | RCA Records Label

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Le meilleur titre pour un album

Mézigue

House - Released November 15, 2019 | D.KO Records

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Martin & les fées

Martin & les fées

French Music - Released October 16, 2015 | SMART

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Parle-moi d'amour, mon amour

Dalida

French Music - Released February 9, 2024 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Rameau: Les Indes galantes

Jean-Claude Malgoire

Classical - Released January 1, 1974 | Sony Classical

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Lully: Armide 1778

Le Concert Spirituel

Classical - Released June 19, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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Armide, premiered in 1686, was the last joint work of Lully and the poet Philippe Quinault. It immediately became a pillar of the Opéra’s repertory, which it finally left only in 1766, when it was removed to make room for a new wave of composers, Philidor, Grétry, Gossec and soon Gluck. A few attempts to restore former tastes still allowed audiences to hear such works as Persée, revived in 1770 (and recorded in that version by Hervé Niquet). But these operas were profoundly modified in order to increase the role of the orchestra and tailor the vocal numbers to the singers of the day. This was the context for the fascinating and unpublished version of Armide that has lain dormant in the Bibliothèque Nationale for more than two centuries. The revisions to the original are by Louis-Joseph Francœur, nephew of the celebrated François Francœur, one of Louis XV’s court musicians. This recording of the 1778 version of Armide, made at the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, is not merely the first modern performance but the work’s world premiere, since none of its music was ever actually played at the time. It enables us to grasp the evolution of the ideas and practices of French music over a whole century. © Alpha Classics
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Les paradis disponibles

Aldebert

Pop - Released October 2, 2006 | Note A Bene