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The remarkable Hypermnestre by Charles-Hubert Gervais is the latest unremembered early 18th-century French opera to be recorded afresh for Glossa, and conducted by György Vashegyi. Gervais was a contemporary of Campra and Destouches, learning from Lully and paving the way for Rameau and, like Marais and François Couperin, open to the Italianising trends of “les goûts réunis”. A high-quality libretto from Joseph La Font tackles the story of Hypermnestra which proved so popular in the early eighteenth century. The Glossa recording contains both the original fifth act and the major revision of it from 1717 and Vashegyi drives the whole tragedy expertly to its bitter (and not-so-bitter!) end. Musically, this “tragédie lyrique” provides powerful opportunities for the trio of leading characters, here taken by Katherine Watson (Hypermnestre), Thomas Dolié (Danaüs, her father) and Mathias Vidal (Lyncée, her betrothed), but they are ably supported by Juliette Mars, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Manuel Núñez Camelino and Philippe-Nicolas Martin. No French opera of this time would have been complete without a generous helping of choral or instrumental music and Gervais – a master of melody, harmony and orchestration – serves these up in a dazzling set of divertissements and festive set pieces full of dances (including a massive passacaille); all this performed with great stylistic awareness and vivacity by Vashegyi’s Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir. © Glossa
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Hypermnestre (1717 Version) (Charles-Hubert Gervais)
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Hypermnestre, Prologue "Jeux en l'honneur d'Isis" (1717 Version) (Charles-Hubert Gervais)
Manuel Nunez Camelino, Artist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Manuel Nunez Camelino, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Manuel Nunez Camelino, Artist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Artist - Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Juliette Mars, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Juliette Mars, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Hypermnestre, Act I (1717 Version) (Charles-Hubert Gervais)
Thomas Dolie, Artist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist - Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist - Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Hypermnestre, Act II (1717 Version) (Charles-Hubert Gervais)
Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Thomas Dolie, Artist - Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Juliette Mars, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Mathias Vidal, Artist - Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Mathias Vidal, Artist - Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Mathias Vidal, Artist - Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Mathias Vidal, Artist - Katherine Watson, Artist, MainArtist - Charles-Hubert Gervais, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
Albumbeschreibung
The remarkable Hypermnestre by Charles-Hubert Gervais is the latest unremembered early 18th-century French opera to be recorded afresh for Glossa, and conducted by György Vashegyi. Gervais was a contemporary of Campra and Destouches, learning from Lully and paving the way for Rameau and, like Marais and François Couperin, open to the Italianising trends of “les goûts réunis”. A high-quality libretto from Joseph La Font tackles the story of Hypermnestra which proved so popular in the early eighteenth century. The Glossa recording contains both the original fifth act and the major revision of it from 1717 and Vashegyi drives the whole tragedy expertly to its bitter (and not-so-bitter!) end. Musically, this “tragédie lyrique” provides powerful opportunities for the trio of leading characters, here taken by Katherine Watson (Hypermnestre), Thomas Dolié (Danaüs, her father) and Mathias Vidal (Lyncée, her betrothed), but they are ably supported by Juliette Mars, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Manuel Núñez Camelino and Philippe-Nicolas Martin. No French opera of this time would have been complete without a generous helping of choral or instrumental music and Gervais – a master of melody, harmony and orchestration – serves these up in a dazzling set of divertissements and festive set pieces full of dances (including a massive passacaille); all this performed with great stylistic awareness and vivacity by Vashegyi’s Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir. © Glossa
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 107 track(s)
- Total length: 02:25:00
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Katherine Watson
- Composer: Charles-Hubert Gervais
- Label: Glossa
- Area: France
- Genre: Klassiek Opera
- Period: Baroque Music
(C) 2019 Glossa (P) 2019 Glossa
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