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Les Argonautes|Purcell: Dido & Æneas, Circe

Purcell: Dido & Æneas, Circe

Les Argonautes, Jonas Descotte

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It was at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (where he studied with Nathalie Stutzmann) that countertenor Jonas Descotte founded Les Argonautes, an ensemble specialising in Baroque music. Although Descotte structures the core of the interpretations, he aims to give his musicians maximum musical freedom in their search for meaningful detail.


The name of his ensemble wasn’t chosen at random. It pays homage to the Argos—celebrated as the first ship to sail the seas—and refers to his own family's six-year epic voyage around the Atlantic on a catamaran. The story behind the Argonauts seems to be a perfect metaphor for the philosophy of the ensemble and its leader's own experience: strong-willed heroes with their own individual achievements, whose resources are channelled and are themselves guided by Jonas.


Jonas Descotte and his Argonauts have crossed the Channel, at least symbolically, for this very lively version of Dido and Aeneas, which is considered to be the first opera, or semi-opera, composed in England. Recorded in Geneva at the Temple de Chêne-Bougeries in 2021, Purcell's masterpiece condenses the full range of human emotion into less than an hour, employing multiple forms and combining comedy with tragedy. Jonas Descottes has constructed his programme judiciously and follows this short opera with extracts from Circe, where the evocation of hell provides an excellent epilogue to the tragedy of the lovers of Carthage. © François Hudry/Qobuz

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Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 (Henry Purcell)

1
Overture
Les Argonautes
00:01:50

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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2
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow (Belinda)
Les Argonautes
00:00:35

Henry Purcell, Composer - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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3
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: Banish Sorrow, Banish Care (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:00:34

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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4
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment (Dido)
Les Argonautes
00:04:14

Henry Purcell, Composer - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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5
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: Grief Increases by Concealing (Belinda, Dido)
Les Argonautes
00:00:34

Henry Purcell, Composer - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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6
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:00:16

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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7
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda)
Les Argonautes
00:01:54

Henry Purcell, Composer - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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8
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: Fear no Danger to Ensue (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
Ana Vieira Leite
00:01:51

Henry Purcell, Composer - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Ana Vieira Leite, MainArtist, SopranoSolo

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9
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: See, Your Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Æneas, Dido)
Les Argonautes
00:00:53

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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10
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: Cupid Only Throws the Dart (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:00:43

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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11
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake (Æneas, Belinda)
Les Argonautes
00:01:12

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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12
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: To the Hills and the Vales (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:01:11

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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13
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I, The Palace: The Triumphing Dance
Les Argonautes
00:01:14

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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14
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: Prelude for the Witches. Wayward Sisters, You That Fright (Sorceress). Harm's Our Delight (Chorus)
Anthea Pichanick
00:02:20

Henry Purcell, Composer - Anthea Pichanick, MainArtist, ContraltoVocals - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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15
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: The Queen of Carthage, Whom We Hate (Sorceress). Ho, Ho, Ho (Chorus)
Anthea Pichanick
00:00:39

Henry Purcell, Composer - Anthea Pichanick, MainArtist, ContraltoVocals - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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16
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II, The Cave: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun? (Two Witches, Sorceress). Ho, Ho, Ho (Chorus)
Ana Vieira Leite
00:01:13

Henry Purcell, Composer - Anthea Pichanick, MainArtist, ContraltoVocals - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Ana Vieira Leite, MainArtist, SopranoSolo

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17
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: But Ere We This Perform (Two Witches)
Les Argonautes
00:01:13

Henry Purcell, Composer - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Ana Vieira Leite, MainArtist, SopranoSolo

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18
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:01:36

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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19
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: Echo Dance of the Furies
Les Argonautes
00:01:05

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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20
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: Ritornelle
Les Argonautes
00:00:56

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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21
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:03:23

Henry Purcell, Composer - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

22
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain (Second Woman)
Les Argonautes
00:02:05

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Ana Vieira Leite, MainArtist, SopranoSolo

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23
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear (Æneas, Dido)
Les Argonautes
00:00:33

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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24
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Haste, Haste to Town (Belinda, Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:00:44

Henry Purcell, Composer - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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25
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Stay, Prince, and Hear Great Jove's Command (Spirit, Æneas)
Les Argonautes
00:02:51

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Léo Fernique, MainArtist, Countertenor - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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26
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: Come Away Fellow Sailors (First Sailor, Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:01:42

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Pierre Arpin, MainArtist, TenorSolo

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27
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: The Sailors' Dance
Les Argonautes
00:00:44

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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28
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: See the Flags and Streamers Curling (Sorceress, Two Witches)
Les Argonautes
00:01:12

Henry Purcell, Composer - Anthea Pichanick, MainArtist, ContraltoVocals - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Ana Vieira Leite, MainArtist, SopranoSolo

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29
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: Our Next Motion (Sorceress)
Les Argonautes
00:00:36

Henry Purcell, Composer - Anthea Pichanick, MainArtist, ContraltoVocals - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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30
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: Destruction's Our Delight (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:00:33

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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31
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: The Witches' Dance
Les Argonautes
00:02:15

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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32
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Your Counsel All Is Urg'd in Vain (Dido, Belinda, Æneas)
Les Argonautes
00:03:22

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Julie Roset, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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33
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: But Death, alas! I cannot shun (Dido)
Les Argonautes
00:00:33

Henry Purcell, Composer - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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34
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:01:01

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

35
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Thy Hand Belinda; Darkness Shades Me (Dido)
Les Argonautes
00:01:02

Henry Purcell, Composer - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

36
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido)
Les Argonautes
00:03:59

Henry Purcell, Composer - Camille Allerat, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

37
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: With Drooping Wings (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:05:30

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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38
Circe, Z. 575: We Must Assemble by a Sacrifice (Second Priest, Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:01:49

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

39
Circe, Z. 575: Their Necessary Aid You Use (First, Second and Third Priests)
Les Argonautes
00:00:46

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Anthea Pichanick, MainArtist, ContraltoVocals - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Augustin Laudet, MainArtist, TenorSolo

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40
Circe, Z. 575: The Air, With Music Gently Wound (Second Priest, Third Priest)
Les Argonautes
00:01:25

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Anthea Pichanick, MainArtist, ContraltoVocals - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

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41
Circe, Z. 575: The Air, With Music Gently Wound (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:01:25

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

42
Circe, Z. 575: Come Every Demon (First Priest)
Les Argonautes
00:01:19

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Augustin Laudet, MainArtist, TenorSolo

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43
Circe, Z. 575: Circe, the Daughter of the Sun Obey (Chorus)
Jonas Descotte
00:00:42

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

44
Circe, Z. 575: You Who Hatch Factions (First Priest)
Les Argonautes
00:00:40

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Augustin Laudet, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

45
Circe, Z. 575: Circe the daughter of the Sun obey (Chorus) II
Jonas Descotte
00:00:46

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

46
Circe, Z. 575: Magicians' Dance (Part 1)
Les Argonautes
00:00:26

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

47
Circe, Z. 575: Pluto, Arise! (Second Priest)
Les Argonautes
00:01:15

Henry Purcell, Composer - Renato Dolcini, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

48
Circe, Z. 575: Magicians' Dance (Part 2)
Les Argonautes
00:00:53

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

49
Circe, Z. 575: Lovers, Who to Their First Embraces Go (First and Second Women, Chorus)
Ana Vieira Leite
00:01:31

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Ana Vieira Leite, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Augustin Laudet, MainArtist, TenorSolo

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50
Circe, Z. 575: Great Minister of Fate (Chorus). At Your Dread Word (Second Woman)
Augustin Laudet
00:00:58

Henry Purcell, Composer - Les Argonautes, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jonas Descotte, Conductor, MainArtist - Augustin Laudet, MainArtist, TenorSolo

2022 Little Tribeca 2022 Little Tribeca

Album review

It was at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (where he studied with Nathalie Stutzmann) that countertenor Jonas Descotte founded Les Argonautes, an ensemble specialising in Baroque music. Although Descotte structures the core of the interpretations, he aims to give his musicians maximum musical freedom in their search for meaningful detail.


The name of his ensemble wasn’t chosen at random. It pays homage to the Argos—celebrated as the first ship to sail the seas—and refers to his own family's six-year epic voyage around the Atlantic on a catamaran. The story behind the Argonauts seems to be a perfect metaphor for the philosophy of the ensemble and its leader's own experience: strong-willed heroes with their own individual achievements, whose resources are channelled and are themselves guided by Jonas.


Jonas Descotte and his Argonauts have crossed the Channel, at least symbolically, for this very lively version of Dido and Aeneas, which is considered to be the first opera, or semi-opera, composed in England. Recorded in Geneva at the Temple de Chêne-Bougeries in 2021, Purcell's masterpiece condenses the full range of human emotion into less than an hour, employing multiple forms and combining comedy with tragedy. Jonas Descottes has constructed his programme judiciously and follows this short opera with extracts from Circe, where the evocation of hell provides an excellent epilogue to the tragedy of the lovers of Carthage. © François Hudry/Qobuz

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