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The paladins, as video game aficionados know, were knights of Charlemagne's court, French counterparts to the Knights of the Round Table. In Rameau's opera, they are the basis for a broad medieval spoof that came down in bits and pieces from Ariosto through various hands, some of them unknown. Here, it receives a valuable new recording from rising young Baroque opera conductor Valentin Tournet and his vocal-orchestral group La Chapelle Harmonique. The opera, which Rameau called a tragédie lyrique, isn't quite in Monty Python territory, but at times, for instance, with the unmotivated entrance of a troupe of Chinese entertainers during a magical episode in the third act, things approach that. This was Rameau's last publicly performed opera, premiered when he was in his late 70s, and it was an uncharacteristic flop. Perhaps it was the overloaded nature of the whole thing, or perhaps the new stylistic breezes blowing in from Italy. It is, however, highly entertaining and loaded with good dance tunes and colorful orchestration. There are few recitatives, and those that do exist are tightly intertwined with the action and keep things moving. There are just a few recordings of this opera, and this one, with a sumptuous booklet and an appendix of material cut by Rameau, may emerge as the standard. It is beautifully recorded at the Palace of Versailles and conveys the scope an 18th century opera production would have had. Tournet has a strong cast, led by Sandrine Piau as the romantic lead Argie, in love with one of the Paladins but pursued as well by her guardian. (She moves over from the role of Argie's friend Nérine in one of the few earlier recordings of the work by conductor William Christie.) The various comic and dance elements come through vividly. This is a strong recording that will fill a lot of holes in Rameau collections.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte I - Scène 1 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte I - Scènes 1 & 2 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte I - Scène 3 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte I - Scènes 3 & 4 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte I - Scène 4 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte I - Scène 5 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte I - Scène 6 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
DISC 2
Acte II - Scène 1 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 2 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 3 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 4 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 5 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Nahuel di Pierro, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 6 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 7 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Anne-Catherine Gillet, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 8 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 9 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Sandrine Piau, Soloist - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - Florian Sempey, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Acte II - Scène 10 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Mathias Vidal, Soloist - La Chapelle Harmonique, Orchestra - Valentin Tournet, Conductor
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
Album review
The paladins, as video game aficionados know, were knights of Charlemagne's court, French counterparts to the Knights of the Round Table. In Rameau's opera, they are the basis for a broad medieval spoof that came down in bits and pieces from Ariosto through various hands, some of them unknown. Here, it receives a valuable new recording from rising young Baroque opera conductor Valentin Tournet and his vocal-orchestral group La Chapelle Harmonique. The opera, which Rameau called a tragédie lyrique, isn't quite in Monty Python territory, but at times, for instance, with the unmotivated entrance of a troupe of Chinese entertainers during a magical episode in the third act, things approach that. This was Rameau's last publicly performed opera, premiered when he was in his late 70s, and it was an uncharacteristic flop. Perhaps it was the overloaded nature of the whole thing, or perhaps the new stylistic breezes blowing in from Italy. It is, however, highly entertaining and loaded with good dance tunes and colorful orchestration. There are few recitatives, and those that do exist are tightly intertwined with the action and keep things moving. There are just a few recordings of this opera, and this one, with a sumptuous booklet and an appendix of material cut by Rameau, may emerge as the standard. It is beautifully recorded at the Palace of Versailles and conveys the scope an 18th century opera production would have had. Tournet has a strong cast, led by Sandrine Piau as the romantic lead Argie, in love with one of the Paladins but pursued as well by her guardian. (She moves over from the role of Argie's friend Nérine in one of the few earlier recordings of the work by conductor William Christie.) The various comic and dance elements come through vividly. This is a strong recording that will fill a lot of holes in Rameau collections.
© TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 87 track(s)
- Total length: 02:44:01
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Valentin Tournet
- Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles
- Genre: Classical
2022 Château de Versailles Spectacles 2021 Château de Versailles Spectacles
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