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In Jephté by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, György Vashegyi directs – with style and energy – another riveting account of a neglected French Baroque opera. The work, based on the Biblical tale of a conquering general obliged, by a sacred vow, to sacrifice his own kin, became an immediate success in 1732, indeed a fixture in opera life in France, receiving over a hundred performances at the Opéra alone in the three decades following its première.
Montéclair and his librettist Pellegrin were open to preparing revised versions of the opera and it is the third and conclusive edition which has been worked on by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and recorded by Vashegyi and his musicians. The central and demanding role of Iphise here is taken by Chantal Santon Jeffery, who is joined by Tassis Christoyannis as the unfortunate but successful-in-war title character, Judith van Wanroij as the bewildered but resolute mother and Thomas Dolié as the relayer of divine messages, Phinée.
There is an imaginative and individual flair to Montéclair’s music, nurtured by his extensive orchestral pit experience at the Paris Opéra – and Jephté is a work of his maturity. As well as the tautness of the third edition, the fruits of all this experience are to be heard here with the Orfeo Orchestra showing its paces in zesty airs, minuets, marches and a chaconne, but also with a musettetinged pastoral celebration – this last also allows the Purcell Choir opportunities to excel; elsewhere, the choir is called on variously to represent warriors, Israelites, and companions of Iphise. © Glossa
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Jephté, Prologue (Michel Pignolet de Montéclair)
Orfeo Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer
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Purcell Choir - Orfeo Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer
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David Witczak, Artist - Katia Velletaz, Artist - Adriána Kalafszky, Artist - Orfeo Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer
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Orfeo Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer
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Katia Velletaz, Main Artist - Purcell Choir - Orfeo Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer
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Orfeo Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer
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Orfeo Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Katia Velletaz, Artist, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Katia Velletaz, Artist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - David Witczak, Artist, MainArtist - Adriána Kalafszky, Artist
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Jephté, Act I (Michel Pignolet de Montéclair)
Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Clément Debieuvre, Artist, MainArtist
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Purcell Choir, Choir - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Thomas Dolie, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Purcell Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Clément Debieuvre, Artist, MainArtist
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Tassis Christoyannis, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Jephté, Act II (Michel Pignolet de Montéclair)
Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Zachary Wilder, Artist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - David Witzcak, Artist, MainArtist
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Chantal Santon Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist - Zachary Wilder, Artist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Chantal Santon Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Chantal Santon Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist, MainArtist - Chantal Santon Jeffery, Artist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist - Chantal Santon Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist - Chantal Santon Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Judith van Wanroij, Artist - Chantal Santon Jeffery, Artist, MainArtist - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Clément Debieuvre, Artist
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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, Composer - Orfeo Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - György Vashegyi, Conductor
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Album review
In Jephté by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, György Vashegyi directs – with style and energy – another riveting account of a neglected French Baroque opera. The work, based on the Biblical tale of a conquering general obliged, by a sacred vow, to sacrifice his own kin, became an immediate success in 1732, indeed a fixture in opera life in France, receiving over a hundred performances at the Opéra alone in the three decades following its première.
Montéclair and his librettist Pellegrin were open to preparing revised versions of the opera and it is the third and conclusive edition which has been worked on by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and recorded by Vashegyi and his musicians. The central and demanding role of Iphise here is taken by Chantal Santon Jeffery, who is joined by Tassis Christoyannis as the unfortunate but successful-in-war title character, Judith van Wanroij as the bewildered but resolute mother and Thomas Dolié as the relayer of divine messages, Phinée.
There is an imaginative and individual flair to Montéclair’s music, nurtured by his extensive orchestral pit experience at the Paris Opéra – and Jephté is a work of his maturity. As well as the tautness of the third edition, the fruits of all this experience are to be heard here with the Orfeo Orchestra showing its paces in zesty airs, minuets, marches and a chaconne, but also with a musettetinged pastoral celebration – this last also allows the Purcell Choir opportunities to excel; elsewhere, the choir is called on variously to represent warriors, Israelites, and companions of Iphise. © Glossa
Details of the original recording : Recorded at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall of Müpa Budapest, Hungary, on 10-12 March 2019
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 127 track(s)
- Total length: 02:21:30
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Chantal Santon-Jeffery
- Composer: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
- Label: Glossa
- Area: France
- Genre: Classical Opera
- Period: Baroque Music
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