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What a fascinating assembly work this is by Simon-Pierre Bestion, like creating a Grand Cru from already sublime sources. On the first hand he took The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Heinrich Schütz, performed as a whole – but “interspersed” with a dozen wonderful madrigals from Johann Hermann Schein’s Israelsbrünnlein. Knowing both works were made in 1623 and that Schütz and Schein were good friends, one born in 1585, the other in 86, the stars really did align perfectly. But the distinctive feature of this recording is that for Schütz’s Resurrection, the singer in the role of the evangelist is no less than Byzantine cantor Georges Abdallah, whose unique voice, elocution, magnificent art of ornamentation and micro-deviations confer this partition − deliberately designed in an archaic way – an unsuspected richness.
As for Israelsbrünnlein, Bestion selected nine madrigals out of the twenty-six featured in the collection and interspersed them between each numbers of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, thus creating a sort of new piece, co-authored by Schütz and Schein. Furthermore he redistributed Schütz’s instrumentation, initially designed for four viols, but which benefits greatly from the addition of cornets and sackbuts – creating a subtle play of sound exchanges, from one musical cell to the other. Regarding Schein, the partition was originally designed for voices, with no indication on instruments, but in line with the customs of the era, nothing prevented a line, part or cell to be assigned to an instrument or instrumental group and to exchange freely with the voices, according to the interpreters’ imagination. Some madrigals were exclusively given to the orchestral ensemble – which became a proper orchestra a-la-Gabrieli –, others were a blend of instruments and voices. As the listener may guess, here is a truly exciting album, granted very unusual and original, but extraordinarily well crafted. And of course let’s not forget the exceptional acoustics of the chapel of the Palace of Versailles, which further adds to the musical mystery of the recording. © SM/Qobuz
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La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Johann Hermann Schein, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano (Woman or Mary) - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-soprano (Woman or Mary) - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor (Man in the tomb) - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor (Man in the tomb) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano (Mary-Magdalene) - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-soprano (Mary-Magdalene) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor (Engel) - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone (Engel) - Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano (Mary-Magdalene) - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-soprano (Mary-Magdalene) - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor (Jésus) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor (Young man in the tomb) - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor (Jésus) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor (High Priest) - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor (High Priest) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor (Jésus) - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor (Cleophas) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor (Cleophas) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor (Jesus) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor (Jesus) - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Georges Abdallah, Voice (Evangelist) - Claire Lefilliâtre, Soprano - Fiona McGown, Mezzo-Soprano - Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Tenor - Sébastien Obrecht, Tenor - Lisandro Nesis, Tenor - Victor Sicard, Bass-Baritone - La Tempête - Simon-Pierre Bestion, Conductor - Heinrich Schütz, Composer
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Album review
What a fascinating assembly work this is by Simon-Pierre Bestion, like creating a Grand Cru from already sublime sources. On the first hand he took The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Heinrich Schütz, performed as a whole – but “interspersed” with a dozen wonderful madrigals from Johann Hermann Schein’s Israelsbrünnlein. Knowing both works were made in 1623 and that Schütz and Schein were good friends, one born in 1585, the other in 86, the stars really did align perfectly. But the distinctive feature of this recording is that for Schütz’s Resurrection, the singer in the role of the evangelist is no less than Byzantine cantor Georges Abdallah, whose unique voice, elocution, magnificent art of ornamentation and micro-deviations confer this partition − deliberately designed in an archaic way – an unsuspected richness.
As for Israelsbrünnlein, Bestion selected nine madrigals out of the twenty-six featured in the collection and interspersed them between each numbers of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, thus creating a sort of new piece, co-authored by Schütz and Schein. Furthermore he redistributed Schütz’s instrumentation, initially designed for four viols, but which benefits greatly from the addition of cornets and sackbuts – creating a subtle play of sound exchanges, from one musical cell to the other. Regarding Schein, the partition was originally designed for voices, with no indication on instruments, but in line with the customs of the era, nothing prevented a line, part or cell to be assigned to an instrument or instrumental group and to exchange freely with the voices, according to the interpreters’ imagination. Some madrigals were exclusively given to the orchestral ensemble – which became a proper orchestra a-la-Gabrieli –, others were a blend of instruments and voices. As the listener may guess, here is a truly exciting album, granted very unusual and original, but extraordinarily well crafted. And of course let’s not forget the exceptional acoustics of the chapel of the Palace of Versailles, which further adds to the musical mystery of the recording. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:07
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: La tempête Simon-Pierre Bestion Georges Abdallah
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
2017 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 La Tempête, Château de Versailles Spectacles & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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