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Even by the supremely high production standards of Alpha recordings, this issue is especially splendid. Entitled Versailles, L'ile enchantée, it fully lives up to its name. As directed by Skip Sempé, the widely varied program features music written for Louis XIV's pleasure palace, performed by the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra with mezzo soprano Guillemette Laurens and bass violist Jay Bernfeld. Each work is superbly selected, and every performance is absolutely idiomatic and wonderfully alive. There is wit and tenderness and elegance and, yes, nobility to their performances, which taken together form as much a portrait of the Sun King as the palace of Versailles itself. As organized into eight Divertissements, Sempé's choices range from the grand Ouverture de Psyché by Lully to the intimate Mes Yeux by Campra, from the soulful Les Voix Humaines by Marais to the massive Passacaille in C by Louis Couperin. As captured in the evocative photographs by Jean-Baptiste Leroux and reproduced in Alpha's superlative program book, Versailles looks every bit as beautiful as this disc sounds. Anyone who loves Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music, will love this disc.
© TiVo
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Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Guillemette Laurens, Performer - Michel Lambert, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Guillemette Laurens, Performer - Michel Lambert, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Gaspard Le Roux, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jasu Moisio, Performer - André Campra, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Guillemette Laurens, Performer - André Campra, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - François Couperin, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jay Bernfeld, Performer - Marin Marais, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jay Bernfeld, Performer - Ariane Maurette, Performer - Marin Marais, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Performer - Skip Sempé, Performer - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
Album review
Even by the supremely high production standards of Alpha recordings, this issue is especially splendid. Entitled Versailles, L'ile enchantée, it fully lives up to its name. As directed by Skip Sempé, the widely varied program features music written for Louis XIV's pleasure palace, performed by the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra with mezzo soprano Guillemette Laurens and bass violist Jay Bernfeld. Each work is superbly selected, and every performance is absolutely idiomatic and wonderfully alive. There is wit and tenderness and elegance and, yes, nobility to their performances, which taken together form as much a portrait of the Sun King as the palace of Versailles itself. As organized into eight Divertissements, Sempé's choices range from the grand Ouverture de Psyché by Lully to the intimate Mes Yeux by Campra, from the soulful Les Voix Humaines by Marais to the massive Passacaille in C by Louis Couperin. As captured in the evocative photographs by Jean-Baptiste Leroux and reproduced in Alpha's superlative program book, Versailles looks every bit as beautiful as this disc sounds. Anyone who loves Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music, will love this disc.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:14
- Main artists: Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra Skip Sempé
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Collection: Ut Pictura Musica
2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles 2001 Alpha - RMN - Cryo - Château de Versailles
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