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Lully : Alceste

Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset

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Everyone thinks that they know Alceste by Lully, and yet this 1674 masterpiece has almost never been recorded in its entirety. Apart from the Malgoire version from 1975 with Bruce Brewer and Felicity Palmer, which is starting to become outdated, the real treat is a second versoin by the same Malgoire twenty years later with Jean-Philippe Lafont and Colette Alliot-Lugaz... And so we can only take our hats off to the new discographical opus from Christophe Rousset's Talens Lyriques, a lively and elegant reading which allows us to rediscover everything that was so innovative about this brilliant, effervescent Florentine, who would become a typical Versaillais, a courtesan and a wheeler-dealer. King Louis XIV - 36 years old, still with all his own teeth and a victorious war leader - could only feel flattered by the piece signed by Quinault: Alcide, who covets the beautiful Alceste (who has been promised to Admetus), is none other than Hercules himself - Louis XIV seeing himself in Hercules saving the beautiful Madame de Montespan from the clutches of her husband. 

To be sure, in this opera, Admetus/Hercules magnanimously hands Alceste, whom he has saved from hell, to her husband, while the poor Mr Montespan would end his career and his life exiled in Gascony... Honour intact. The Sun King loved the work, to the point that he commanded that rehearsals be held at Versailles. According to Madame de Sévigné, "The King declared that if he found himself in Paris when it was performed, he would go to see it every night." That being said, if Alceste suited the tastes of the court, it didn't do so well in Paris, where Lully's enemies, jealous of the extravagant privileges that he had won (the exclusive right to "have sung any whole piece in France, wither in French verse or in other languages, without the written permission of said Sir Lully, on pain of a ten thousand livre fine, and confiscation of theatres, equipment, decorations, costumes..."), heaped plot upon plot, while the gallant Mercury sang his little couplet: Dieu !  Le bel opéra ! Rien de plus pitoyable ! Cerbère y vient japper d'un aboi lamentable !  Oh ! Quelle musique de chien ! Oh ! Quelle musique du diable ! [Lord!/Fine opera!/There's nothing so pitiable!/Cerberus is yapping, his howls lamentable!/What doggish music!/What devilish music!]. Posterity would decide otherwise, and Rousset proved it triumphantly. © SM/Qobuz

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Christophe Rousset

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Alceste, LWV 50 (Jean-Baptiste Lully)

1
Prologue : Ouverture
Christophe Rousset
00:02:31

Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

2
Prologue : Le héros que j'attends (La Nymphe de la Seine)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:52

Lucía Martín-Cartón, Soprano (La Nymphe de la Seine) - Les Talens Lyriques - Jean-Baptiste Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

3
Prologue : Bruit de guerre
Christophe Rousset
00:00:21

Les Talens Lyriques - Jean-Baptiste Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

4
Prologue : Rondeau pour la Gloire
Christophe Rousset
00:01:13

Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

5
Prologue : Hélas ! superbe Gloire, hélas ! (La Nymphe de la Seine, la Gloire)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:28

Lucía Martín-Cartón, Soprano (Nymphe de la Seine) - Judith van Wanroij, Soprano (La Gloire) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

6
Prologue : Qu'il est doux d'accorder ensemble (Le chœur des Naïades et des divinités champêtres)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:22

Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

7
Prologue : L'Art d'accord avec la Nature (La Nymphe des Tuileries)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:04

Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Nymphe des Tuileries) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

8
Prologue : Air pour les divinités des Fleuves
Christophe Rousset
00:00:53

Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

9
Prologue : L'onde se presse (La Nymphe de la Marne)
Christophe Rousset
00:00:53

Bénédicte Tauran, Soprano (La Nymphe de la Marne) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

10
Prologue : Air pour les divinités des Fleuves et les Nymphes
Christophe Rousset
00:01:38

Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

11
Prologue : Que tout retentisse (La Gloire, les Nymphes, le chœur)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:49

Judith Van Wanroij, Soprano (La Gloire) - Lucía Martín-Cartón, Soprano (Nymphe de la Seine) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Nymphe des Tuileries) - Bénédicte Tauran, Soprano (Nymphe de la Marne) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

12
Prologue : Air pour les divinités des Fleuves et les Nymphes
Christophe Rousset
00:00:54

Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

13
Prologue : Quel cœur sauvage (Le chœur des divinités des Fleuves et des Nymphes)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:55

Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

14
Prologue : Revenez Plaisirs exilés (Le chœur des divinités des Fleuves et des Nymphes)
Christophe Rousset
00:00:30

Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

15
Act I, Scene 1 : Ouverture, Reprise
Christophe Rousset
00:01:52

Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

16
Act I, Scene 1 : Vivez, vivez, heureux époux (Le chœur des Thessaliens, Lychas, Alcide)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:37

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Lychas) - Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

17
Act I, Scene 2 : L'Amour a bien des maux (Alcide, Straton, Lychas)
Christophe Rousset
00:00:20

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Lychas) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

18
Act I, Scene 3 : Lychas, j'ai deux mots à te dire (Straton, Lychas)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:12

Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Lychas) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

19
Act I, Scene 4 : Dans ce beau jour, quelle humeur sombre (Céphise, Straton)
Christophe Rousset
00:05:10

Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

20
Act I, Scene 5 : Straton, donne ordre qu'on s'apprête (Lycomède, Straton, Céphise)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:43

Douglas Williams, Bass-Baritone (Lycomède) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

21
Act I, Scene 6 : Vivez, vivez, heureux époux (Chœur des Thessaliens, Phérès, Admète, Alceste)
Christophe Rousset
00:00:45

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Judith van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

22
Act I, Scene 7 : Air pour les matelots (Deux Tritons, Céphise, chœur des divinités marines, Lycomède, Straton, Admète, Alcide, Chœur des Thessaliens, Alceste)
Christophe Rousset
00:09:28

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (1st Triton) - Emiliano Gonzales-Toro, Tenor (2nd Triton) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Douglas Williams, Bass-Baritone (Lycomède) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Judith van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

23
Act I, Scene 8 : Époux infortuné, redoute ma colère (Thétis, Admète, Alceste, Chœur des Thessaliens)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:31

Bénédicte Tauran, Soprano (Thétis) - Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Judith van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

24
Act I, Scene 9 : Le ciel protège les héros (Éole, les Aquilons, les Zéphyrs)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:54

Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Éole) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

25
Act II, Scene 1 : Alceste ne vient point (Céphise, Straton)
Christophe Rousset
00:04:46

Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

26
Act II, Scene 2 : Allons, allons, la plainte est vaine (Lycomède, Alceste, Straton)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:21

Douglas Williams, Bass-Baritone (Lycomède) - Judith Van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

27
Act II, Scene 3 : Marchez, marchez, marchez (Admète, Alcide)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:36

Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

28
Act II, Scene 4 : Marchez, marchez, marchez (Lycomède, Straton, Admète, Alcide, Lychas, Chœur d'assiégeants et d'assiégés)
Christophe Rousset
00:04:13

Douglas Williams, Bass-Baritone (Lycomède) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Lychas) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

29
Act II, Scene 5 : Courage, enfants, je suis à vous (Phérès)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:03

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

30
Act II, Scene 6 : Rendez à votre fils cette aimable princesse (Alcide, Phérès, Alceste)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:06

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Judith Van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

31
Act II, Scene 7 : Cherchons Admète promptement (Alceste, Phérès, Céphise)
Judith van Wanroij
00:00:56

Judith Van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

32
Act II, Scene 8 : Ô dieux ! quel spectacle funeste (Admète, Cléante, Alceste, Phérès, Céphise)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:59

Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Cléante) - Judith Van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

33
Act II, Scene 9 : La lumière aujourd'hui te doit être ravie (Apollon, les Arts, Admète, Alceste, Phérès, Céphise, Cléante, Soldats)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:47

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Apollon, Phérès) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

DISC 2

1
Act III, Scene 1 : Ah ! pourquoi nous séparez-vous ? (Alceste, Phérès, Céphise)
Christophe Rousset
00:04:45

Judith Van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

2
Act III, Scene 2 : Voyons encore mon fils, allons, hâtons nos pas (Phérès, Cléante)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:59

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Cléante) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

3
Act III, Scene 3 : Ô trop heureux Admète (Le chœur, Admète, Phérès, Cléante)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:15

Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Phérès) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Cléante) - Chœur de chambre Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

4
Act III, Scene 4 : Alceste est morte (Céphise, Admète, Phérès, Cléante, le chœur)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:27

Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Chœur de chambre Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

5
Act III, Scene 5 : La Mort, la Mort barbare (Pompe funèbre : une femme affligée, Chœur)
Christophe Rousset
00:09:58

Lucía Martín-Cartón, Soprano (Femme affligée) - Chœur de chambre Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

6
Act III, Scene 6 : Sans Alceste, sans ses appas (Admète)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:24

Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

7
Act III, Scene 7 : Tu me vois arrêté sur le point de partir (Alcide, Admète, Phérès, Céphise, Cléante)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:28

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

8
Act III, Scene 8 : Le dieu dont tu tiens la naissance (Diane, Mercure, Alcide, Admète, Phérès, Céphise, Cléante)
Christophe Rousset
00:01:56

Bénédicte Tauran, Soprano (Diane) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

9
Act IV, Scene 1 : Il faut passer tôt ou tard (Charon, les Ombres)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:42

Douglas Williams, Bass-Baritone (Charon) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

10
Act IV, Scene 2 : Sortez, Ombres, faites-moi place (Alcide, Charon, les Ombres)
Christophe Rousset
00:00:43

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Douglas Williams, Bass-Baritone (Charon) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

11
Act IV, Scene 3 : Reçois le juste prix de ton amour fidèle (Pluton, Proserpine, l'Ombre d'Alceste, Suivants de Pluton)
Christophe Rousset
00:08:37

Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Pluton) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-Soprano (Proserpine) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

12
Act IV, Scene 4 : Quittez, quittez les Jeux, songez à vous défendre (Alecton, Pluton, Proserpine)
Christophe Rousset
00:00:41

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Alecton) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Pluton) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

13
Act IV, Scene 5 : Insolent, jusqu'ici braves-tu mon courroux ? (Alcide, Pluton, Proserpine, Alecton, Suivants de Pluton)
Christophe Rousset
00:03:45

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Pluton) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-Soprano (Proserpine) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

14
Act V, Scene 1 : Alcide est vainqueur du trépas (Admète, le chœur)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:27

Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Chœur de chambre de Namur - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

15
Act V, Scene 2 : Ne m'ôteras-tu point la chaîne qui m'accable (Straton, Lychas)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:16

Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Lychas) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

16
Act V, Scene 3 : Vois, Céphise, vois qui de nous (Lychas, Straton, Céphise)
Christophe Rousset
00:02:21

Enguerrand de Hys, Tenor (Lychas) - Étienne Bazola, Baritone (Straton) - Ambroisine Bré, Mezzo-soprano (Céphise) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

17
Act V, Scene 4 : Pour une si belle victoire (Alcide, Admète, Alceste)
Christophe Rousset
00:05:44

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Bass-Baritone (Alcide) - Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Tenor (Admète) - Judith Van Wanroij, Soprano (Alceste) - Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, Conductor - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer

Little Tribeca Little Tribeca

Albumbeschreibung

Everyone thinks that they know Alceste by Lully, and yet this 1674 masterpiece has almost never been recorded in its entirety. Apart from the Malgoire version from 1975 with Bruce Brewer and Felicity Palmer, which is starting to become outdated, the real treat is a second versoin by the same Malgoire twenty years later with Jean-Philippe Lafont and Colette Alliot-Lugaz... And so we can only take our hats off to the new discographical opus from Christophe Rousset's Talens Lyriques, a lively and elegant reading which allows us to rediscover everything that was so innovative about this brilliant, effervescent Florentine, who would become a typical Versaillais, a courtesan and a wheeler-dealer. King Louis XIV - 36 years old, still with all his own teeth and a victorious war leader - could only feel flattered by the piece signed by Quinault: Alcide, who covets the beautiful Alceste (who has been promised to Admetus), is none other than Hercules himself - Louis XIV seeing himself in Hercules saving the beautiful Madame de Montespan from the clutches of her husband. 

To be sure, in this opera, Admetus/Hercules magnanimously hands Alceste, whom he has saved from hell, to her husband, while the poor Mr Montespan would end his career and his life exiled in Gascony... Honour intact. The Sun King loved the work, to the point that he commanded that rehearsals be held at Versailles. According to Madame de Sévigné, "The King declared that if he found himself in Paris when it was performed, he would go to see it every night." That being said, if Alceste suited the tastes of the court, it didn't do so well in Paris, where Lully's enemies, jealous of the extravagant privileges that he had won (the exclusive right to "have sung any whole piece in France, wither in French verse or in other languages, without the written permission of said Sir Lully, on pain of a ten thousand livre fine, and confiscation of theatres, equipment, decorations, costumes..."), heaped plot upon plot, while the gallant Mercury sang his little couplet: Dieu !  Le bel opéra ! Rien de plus pitoyable ! Cerbère y vient japper d'un aboi lamentable !  Oh ! Quelle musique de chien ! Oh ! Quelle musique du diable ! [Lord!/Fine opera!/There's nothing so pitiable!/Cerberus is yapping, his howls lamentable!/What doggish music!/What devilish music!]. Posterity would decide otherwise, and Rousset proved it triumphantly. © SM/Qobuz

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