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Located in Venice’s Palazzetto Bru Zane, the Centre de Musique Romantique Française (Centre for French Romantic Music) continues in its pursuit of publishing unknown French music with the very same dynamism it’s displayed since its conception. This particular excavation was performed in Budapest by the Purcell Choir and the Orfeo Orchestra, conducted by György Vashegyi. The cathedral-sized concert hall in which it was recorded has exceptional acoustics and gives this discovery a wonderful sense of space and openness. While the protagonists of this opera Phèdre (Phaedra) may be familiar to us – Phaedra, Hippolytus, Theseus and Ono, its composer is much less well-known. The opera may have been shunned by Berlioz sixty years after it was written but Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne nevertheless scored a veritable triumph in 1786 when it was sung at the Opera (Royal Academy of Music) by the best singers of the time. Especially when it’s compared to Gluck’s masterpieces, this opera deserves to come out of hiding due to its undeniable melodic and theatrical qualities.
Born in the Dordogne, Lemoyne studied in Berlin before becoming second music master to Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of the arts. Upon his return to France, he had to contend with the rivalry of the Parisian public between the Gluckists and the Piccinnists, whose notorious feud had not yet come to an end. Phèdre was one of the great successes of the old social and political order in France before the French revolution and even survived up until the beginning of the 19th century, before it fell by the wayside and was seemingly forgotten about.
Leading one of the few Hungarian ensembles devoted to early music on period instruments, the spirited Francophile György Vashegyi captures the dramatic intensity of this score brilliantly with an outstanding quartet of international soloists who breathe life back into this opera. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Phèdre, Acte I (Jean Baptiste Lemoyne)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Ludivine Gombert, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist - Ludivine Gombert, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist - Ludivine Gombert, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Jérôme Boutillier, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Jérôme Boutillier, MainArtist - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Phèdre, Acte II (Jean Baptiste Lemoyne)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
DISC 2
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Phèdre, Acte III (Jean Baptiste Lemoyne)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Julien Behr, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Melody Louledjian, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer - Jérôme Boutillier, MainArtist
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist - Tassis Christoyannis, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - François-Benoît Hoffman, Lyricist - Purcell Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, MainArtist - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Composer
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
Albumbeschreibung
Located in Venice’s Palazzetto Bru Zane, the Centre de Musique Romantique Française (Centre for French Romantic Music) continues in its pursuit of publishing unknown French music with the very same dynamism it’s displayed since its conception. This particular excavation was performed in Budapest by the Purcell Choir and the Orfeo Orchestra, conducted by György Vashegyi. The cathedral-sized concert hall in which it was recorded has exceptional acoustics and gives this discovery a wonderful sense of space and openness. While the protagonists of this opera Phèdre (Phaedra) may be familiar to us – Phaedra, Hippolytus, Theseus and Ono, its composer is much less well-known. The opera may have been shunned by Berlioz sixty years after it was written but Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne nevertheless scored a veritable triumph in 1786 when it was sung at the Opera (Royal Academy of Music) by the best singers of the time. Especially when it’s compared to Gluck’s masterpieces, this opera deserves to come out of hiding due to its undeniable melodic and theatrical qualities.
Born in the Dordogne, Lemoyne studied in Berlin before becoming second music master to Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of the arts. Upon his return to France, he had to contend with the rivalry of the Parisian public between the Gluckists and the Piccinnists, whose notorious feud had not yet come to an end. Phèdre was one of the great successes of the old social and political order in France before the French revolution and even survived up until the beginning of the 19th century, before it fell by the wayside and was seemingly forgotten about.
Leading one of the few Hungarian ensembles devoted to early music on period instruments, the spirited Francophile György Vashegyi captures the dramatic intensity of this score brilliantly with an outstanding quartet of international soloists who breathe life back into this opera. © François Hudry/Qobuz
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 46 track(s)
- Total length: 02:16:08
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Orfeo Orchestra Purcell Choir György Vashegyi
- Composer: Jean Baptiste Lemoyne
- Label: Bru Zane
- Genre: Klassiek
2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 2020 Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française
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