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With his ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon has written the listing for this album in the form of a "pastiche" of a Mass for the Dead, a Requiem both sacred and profane. While it is a long way from having all the defining traits, it does possess all the outlines: Introit, Kyrie, Gradual, Sequence, Offertory, In Paradisum... The idea came about after a recent discovery, in the Bibliothèque Nationale of an anonymous requiem mass from the 18th century, in which the writer constructed a "parody" based on musical extracts from Castor and Pollux and the Fêtes de Paphos by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Note that the term "parody" doesn't necessarily imply satire or mockery: it refers to the practice of taking up older music and setting new words to it. This fusion of sacred music (the mass) and profane music (lyrical tragedy), a common practice during the Enlightenment, was a procedure that Pichon wanted to take up.
In French society at the time, when Catholicism was the norm, where the political system was monarchical rule by divine right, the representation of ancient pagan Hell on theatrical stages seemed to betray a fascination in the beliefs of the ancients. And so this programme melds together pagan fable with a Christian imaginary, where Hell takes on different faces. It is the place of unjust and eternal torment, a place of privation where a couple is separated, one half kept in Hades. But, in the lyrical tragedy, Hell is also a place of perdition: obscure forces unleashed in Sabbath rites, a Satanic vision which unearths the darkest depths of the human soul... Stéphane Degout is the author of this tragedy, bringing together such varied characters as Phaedra, Pluto, and the Parcae. The composers whose music is put to use are Rameau and Gluck, with a single borrowing from Rebel: it would have been a shame not to mention his singular Chaos (taken from Éléments), which starts with a dissonant chord containing the seven notes of the scale of D minor. © SM/Qobuz
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Zoroastre, RCT 62 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (La Vengeance) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
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Les Élémens (Jean-Féry Rebel)
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean-Féry Rebel, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Dardanus, RCT 35 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Anténor) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de "Castor et Pollux" (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anonymous, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Iphigénie en Tauride, Wq. 46 (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Oreste) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de "Castor et Pollux" (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Le Tragédien) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anonymous, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Thésée) - Mathias Vidal, Taille (Première Parque) - Thomas Dolie, Basse-taille (Tisiphone, deuxième Parque) - Nicolas Courjal, Basse (Pluton, troisième Parque) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Les Surprises de l'amour, RCT 58 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Armide, Wq. 45 (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Ubalde, chevalier chrétien) - Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Taille (Le Chevalier danois) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de "Castor et Pollux" (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Le Tragédien) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anonymous, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 30 (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Zoroastre, RCT 62 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Abramane) - Emmanuelle de Negri, Dessus (Erinice) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Abramane) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 30 (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Nicolas Courjal, Basse (Pluton, troisième Parque) - Mathias Vidal, Taille (Première Parque) - Thomas Dolie, Basse-taille (Tisiphone, deuxième Parque) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Thésée) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de "Castor et Pollux" (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Reinoud Van Mechelen, Haute-contre - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anonymous, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Bas-dessus (Phèdre) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Thésée) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 30 (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de "Castor et Pollux" (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Stéphane Degout, Basse-taille (Le Tragédien) - Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anonymous, Composer - Editions Nicolas Sceaux, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Les Boréades, RCT 31 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Pygmalion - Raphaël Pichon, Conductor - Jean Philippe Rameau, Composer - Alain Villain, Paris, MusicPublisher
harmonia mundi harmonia mundi
Album review
With his ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon has written the listing for this album in the form of a "pastiche" of a Mass for the Dead, a Requiem both sacred and profane. While it is a long way from having all the defining traits, it does possess all the outlines: Introit, Kyrie, Gradual, Sequence, Offertory, In Paradisum... The idea came about after a recent discovery, in the Bibliothèque Nationale of an anonymous requiem mass from the 18th century, in which the writer constructed a "parody" based on musical extracts from Castor and Pollux and the Fêtes de Paphos by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Note that the term "parody" doesn't necessarily imply satire or mockery: it refers to the practice of taking up older music and setting new words to it. This fusion of sacred music (the mass) and profane music (lyrical tragedy), a common practice during the Enlightenment, was a procedure that Pichon wanted to take up.
In French society at the time, when Catholicism was the norm, where the political system was monarchical rule by divine right, the representation of ancient pagan Hell on theatrical stages seemed to betray a fascination in the beliefs of the ancients. And so this programme melds together pagan fable with a Christian imaginary, where Hell takes on different faces. It is the place of unjust and eternal torment, a place of privation where a couple is separated, one half kept in Hades. But, in the lyrical tragedy, Hell is also a place of perdition: obscure forces unleashed in Sabbath rites, a Satanic vision which unearths the darkest depths of the human soul... Stéphane Degout is the author of this tragedy, bringing together such varied characters as Phaedra, Pluto, and the Parcae. The composers whose music is put to use are Rameau and Gluck, with a single borrowing from Rebel: it would have been a shame not to mention his singular Chaos (taken from Éléments), which starts with a dissonant chord containing the seven notes of the scale of D minor. © SM/Qobuz
Details of the original recording : Recorded Décember 2016, Paris (Église Notre-Dame du Liban)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:17
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Pygmalion Raphaël Pichon
- Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Label: harmonia mundi
- Genre: Classical Opera Opera Extracts
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