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Léa Desandre has all the makings of a great star. Noticed when she was only twenty years old by William Christie, crowned "Revelation Lyric Artist" at the 2017 Victoires de la Musique, she has already performed on the world's greatest opera stages, from Aix-en-Provence to Salzburg, including the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Sydney Opera House. The singer, who excels in opera productions as well as in recitals, and who is an appreciated guest artist on the recordings of Emmanuelle Haïm and Thibault Cauvin, needed only this recording published by Erato to complete the start of a brilliant career.
For her first album published under her own name, Léa Desandre has made a strong start in choosing the theme of the Amazons. This mythical group of warrior women living apart from men has inspired a whole legion of composers—we are treated here to a focus on the Italian and French baroque periods—who take the listener through a forest of diverse emotions: mockery, lamentations, anger... the Amazons inspiring love as much as hate. Worse than these being the indifference.
However, it is impossible to be indifferent to this very high quality album. Léa Desandre is in her element here: her surprisingly malleable timbre carries everything along and reveals the extreme sensitivity of the performer. Accompanied by her usual performing partner, the lutenist Thomas Dunford who is here conducting the Ensemble Jupiter at the top of its game, she does not hesitate to bring in the soprano Véronique Gens, the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli or her mentor William Christie for a single track. That is all there is to it. But much more than talent, what unites all these good people and gives infinite pleasure to the listener is the joy of playing as in a family. “Amazone is a story from the heart. To the rhythm of the encounters, it is my metronome, my compass", the mezzo-soprano freely declares in the first page of the accompanying booklet. You can be certain of this, Léa, your metronome beats perfect time. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
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Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Francesco Provenzale, Composer - Francesco Antonio Paolella, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Francesco Cavalli, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Francesco Provenzale, Composer - Francesco Antonio Paolella, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Composer - Giulio Barbò, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano, - Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-soprano, FeaturedArtist, - Ensemble Jupiter, - Thomas Dunford, Conductor, - Andrea Perrucci, Poet, - Giuseppe De Bottis, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Georg Caspar Schürmann, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Carlo Pallavicino, Composer - Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Carlo Pallavicino, Composer - Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Veronique Gens, Soprano, FeaturedArtist - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Andre Danican Philidor, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Thomas Dunford, Lute - William Christie, Harpsichord, FeaturedArtist - Louis Couperin, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Andre Cardinal Destouches, Composer - Antoine Houdar De La Motte, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Thomas Dunford, Lute - Jupiter Ensemble - Marin Marais, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Andre Cardinal Destouches, Composer - Antoine Houdar De La Motte, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Jean rondeau, Composer, Harpsichord, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Jean rondeau, Harpsichord - François Couperin, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Ensemble Jupiter - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Andre Cardinal Destouches, Composer - Antoine Houdar De La Motte, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Antonio Salvi, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Jupiter Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Giuseppe De Bottis, Composer - Andrea Perrucci, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Georg Caspar Schürmann, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Antonio Salvi, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Giuseppe De Bottis, Composer - Andrea Perrucci, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Giuseppe De Bottis, Composer - Andrea Perrucci, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Antonio Salvi, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Antonio Salvi, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Conductor - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - Antonio Salvi, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano - Jupiter, Ensemble - Thomas Dunford, Composer, Conductor
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Classics/Erato release., ℗ 2021 Association Ensemble Jupiter
Album review
Léa Desandre has all the makings of a great star. Noticed when she was only twenty years old by William Christie, crowned "Revelation Lyric Artist" at the 2017 Victoires de la Musique, she has already performed on the world's greatest opera stages, from Aix-en-Provence to Salzburg, including the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Sydney Opera House. The singer, who excels in opera productions as well as in recitals, and who is an appreciated guest artist on the recordings of Emmanuelle Haïm and Thibault Cauvin, needed only this recording published by Erato to complete the start of a brilliant career.
For her first album published under her own name, Léa Desandre has made a strong start in choosing the theme of the Amazons. This mythical group of warrior women living apart from men has inspired a whole legion of composers—we are treated here to a focus on the Italian and French baroque periods—who take the listener through a forest of diverse emotions: mockery, lamentations, anger... the Amazons inspiring love as much as hate. Worse than these being the indifference.
However, it is impossible to be indifferent to this very high quality album. Léa Desandre is in her element here: her surprisingly malleable timbre carries everything along and reveals the extreme sensitivity of the performer. Accompanied by her usual performing partner, the lutenist Thomas Dunford who is here conducting the Ensemble Jupiter at the top of its game, she does not hesitate to bring in the soprano Véronique Gens, the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli or her mentor William Christie for a single track. That is all there is to it. But much more than talent, what unites all these good people and gives infinite pleasure to the listener is the joy of playing as in a family. “Amazone is a story from the heart. To the rhythm of the encounters, it is my metronome, my compass", the mezzo-soprano freely declares in the first page of the accompanying booklet. You can be certain of this, Léa, your metronome beats perfect time. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:03
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Lea Desandre Jupiter Thomas Dunford
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Classical
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2021 Parlophone Records Limited
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