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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 57:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # FL 2 3171 | Recorded: 2003

Quebec contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux scored a top rating on her earlier Analekta disc of Handel Italian cantatas, and in that review I expressed a desire for more recordings from this sensational young singer. If you enjoyed the Handel program (and if you don't have it, get it), you'll be just as happy with this new disc that combines two famous Baroque solo-vocal works with some engaging, relentlessly upbeat orchestral selections from the same period. Lemieux continues to impress with her warm, true-contralto tone, fluid legatos, canny phrasing, and total command of the technical aspects of these justifiably popular yet challenging works.

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Kazuki Yamada - Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été; Saint-Saëns: Mélodies persanes; Ravel: Shéhérazade (2023)

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Kazuki Yamada - Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été; Saint-Saëns: Mélodies persanes; Ravel: Shéhérazade (2023)

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Kazuki Yamada, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo - Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été; Saint-Saëns: Mélodies persanes; Ravel: Shéhérazade (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 70:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 5054197659409 | Recorded: 2021, 2022

The Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and its Artistic and Music Director Kazuki Yamada, interprets the now ‘traditional’ recorded pairing of two sumptuous, escapist French song cycles: Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Ravel’s Shéhérazade. Complementing them both musically and thematically is a third, less frequently heard cycle by another great French composer, Camille Saint-Saëns: his Mélodies Persanes (Persian Songs). “From the first note to the last, Lemieux’s interpretation of the Berlioz was exemplary …” wrote Bachtrack when she performed Les Nuits d’été in Paris. “From the depths of her lower register to her shimmering high notes, she traced a supple trajectory through the work, phrasing with amplitude and missing no opportunity for word-painting.”

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: La fida ninfa (2008)

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Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: La fida ninfa (2008)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: La fida ninfa (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 951 Mb | Total time: 189:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30410 | Recorded: 2007

La Fida Ninfa premiered during the Verona carnival of 1732 at the Teatro Filarmonico. The work was composed to help celebrate the opening of the theatre, which had been postponed for two years, since at that time, the city had been surrounded by foreign military troops. The production was spectacular, and included elaborate ballets by Andrea Cattani, a famous ballet master from Poland, as well as sumptuous sets by Francesco Bibiena. “Vivaldi's score is a ravishing one, offering a rewarding sequence of beguiling arias, duets, a trio and a quartet. Sandrine Piau (Licori) and Verónica Cangemi (Morasto) take on the considerable vocal challenges of demanding roles with their usual tonal warmth and bravura, while Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Elpina) provides the necessary emotional contrasts.

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Griselda (2005)

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Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Griselda (2005)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Griselda (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 791 Mb | Total time: 58:58+59:28+36:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30419 | Recorded: 2005

Written in 1735 for his protégée Anna Girò, Griselda takes a story from Boccaccio and turns it into a hymn of praise to nobility and constancy. Yet though the story is tired and true, Vivaldi's music is real and vibrant and as attractive as anything in his instrumental works. In this recording by Jean-Christophe Spinosi leading the Matheus Ensemble with Marie-Nicole Lemeux in the title role, Naïve has released another strong argument for the high quality of Vivaldi's operas. Spinosi has a light hand but a dramatic touch and he keeps the music moving even while granting the soloists ample scope to develop their characters.

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando furioso (2004)

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Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando furioso (2004)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando furioso (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 937 Mb | Total time: 182:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30393 | Recorded: 2004

Diving into Vivaldi's Orlando furioso with Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Matheus Ensemble, and a shockingly good cast is enough to make even the most jaded listener smile. It is fresh, unrelentingly impressive, and entertaining to a fault. The opera is over-plotted: the first paragraph of the synopsis is enough to confuse anyone not taking notes. And listening to the entire thing would amount to more flowery, athletic vocalism than most can stand in one sitting. But those with the remotest interest in Vivaldi opera, or opera at all, will be hard pressed not to marvel at the quality of what's recorded here. Spinosi is a brilliant Vivaldian who pulls sweet-toned lyricism and down-and-dirty sawing from his Matheus Ensemble, making the most of the composer's rich orchestration. And the cast pulls one rabbit after another out of its collective hat, tackling Vivaldi's consummately difficult arias with élan.

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo & Kazuki Yamada - Berlioz, Ravel & Saint-Saëns (2023)

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo & Kazuki Yamada - Berlioz, Ravel & Saint-Saëns (2023)

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo & Kazuki Yamada - Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, H 81b - Ravel: Shéhérazade, M. 41 - Saint-Saëns: Mélodies persanes, Op. 26 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 260 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | 01:10:54
Classical, Vocal | Label: Erato Records, Warner Classics

The Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and its Artistic and Music Director Kazuki Yamada, interprets the now ‘traditional’ recorded pairing of two sumptuous, escapist French song cycles: Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Ravel’s Shéhérazade. Complementing them both musically and thematically is a third, less frequently heard cycle by another great French composer, Camille Saint-Saëns: his Mélodies Persanes (Persian Songs). “From the first note to the last, Lemieux’s interpretation of the Berlioz was exemplary …” wrote Bachtrack when she performed Les Nuits d’été in Paris. “From the depths of her lower register to her shimmering high notes, she traced a supple trajectory through the work, phrasing with amplitude and missing no opportunity for word-painting.”

Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy, La Chapelle de Quebec - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (2015)

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Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy, La Chapelle de Quebec - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (2015)

Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy, La Chapelle de Québec - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 52:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD2 2722 | Recorded: 2001

This is an ATMA Classique reissue of one of Les Violons du Roy’s seminal discs: the orchestra’s 2002 Dorian label recording of Mozart’s Requiem as revised and completed by Robert D. Levin. The recording won the JUNO® Award for Best Classical Album of the year in the Vocal or Choral Performance category. Founding conductor Bernard Labadie brought Les Violons du Roy and its the fifteen member core together in 1984. The ensemble specializes in the vast repertoire of music for chamber orchestra, performed on modern instruments but in a stylistic manner most appropriate to the work’s era.

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Daniel Blumenthal - Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben (2009)

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Daniel Blumenthal - Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben (2009)

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Daniel Blumenthal - Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 250 Mb | Total time: 64:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5159 | Recorded: 2008

Zwei Monate vor seiner Hochzeit mit Clara Wieck komponierte Robert Schumann den Liederzyklus Frauenliebe- und -Leben, basierend auf Gedichten von Adelbert von Chamisso. Womöglich sah er sich durch die Ereignisse in seinem Leben dazu inspiriert. Die Lieder beschreiben den "Liebes-Lebenslauf" einer Frau aus ihrem eigenen Blickwinkel, von einer allerersten Begegnung als Jugendliche über die Heirat und Ehe zum Tod ihres Geliebten bis hin zum Überdauern der Liebe über den Tod hinaus. Diese Reihe vermittelt einen Blick ins Innere des Komponisten und damit oft gemischte Gefühle: Freude, die von Sorgen durchmischt wird, selbst über der Ausgelassenheit der Hochzeit hängt etwas Tragisches. Marie-Nicole Lemieux wird mit ihrer Ausdrucksstärke diesem Gefühlsspektrum voll und ganz gerecht.

Bertrand de Billy, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2009)

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Bertrand de Billy, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2009)

Bertrand de Billy, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 6.09+4.13 Gb (DVD9-DVD5) | 163 min
Classical | Virgin | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol

Soprano Natalie Dessay leaves the dizzy heights of Bellini’s Amina, Donizetti’s Marie and Massenet’s Manon to inhabit the more discreet emotional and vocal world of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with a cast of fellow francophones.
“There’s more to life than top notes,” Natalie Dessay has said. She has, of course, made her reputation with the florid, stratospheric heroines of Romantic French and Italian opera, but in this new DVD from Vienna she portrays a heroine who presents few opportunities for vocal display, but many for subtle characterisation – Debussy’s Mélisande. Dessay had sung the role just once before, in concert in Edinburgh in 2005. Pelléas et Mélisande is full of ambiguity and its vocal lines closely reflect Maurice Maeterlink’s often enigmatic text. A few unaccompanied, ballad-like phrases are the closest Mélisande gets to an aria.

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater, Crucifixus (2007)

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Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Antonio Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater, Crucifixus (2007)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus, Philippe Jaroussky, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Antonio Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater, Crucifixus (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 202 Mb | Total time: 41:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30453 | Recorded: 2007

Antonio Vivaldi's probably early Nisi Dominus, RV 608, and Stabat Mater, RV 621, both for solo voice and ensemble, have received several top-notch recordings, so the listener can pick on the basis of voice type and stylistic preference. Countertenor David Daniels has essayed the pair with Fabio Biondi and his Europa Galante ensemble, and you can hear the preternaturally rich contralto Sara Mingardo in a reading with the fiery Italian Baroque specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini. Here you get a countertenor, Philippe Jaroussky, in the Nisi Dominus and a female contralto, Canadian Marie-Nicole Lemieux, in the Stabat Mater. The pairing robs the whole of unity at one level, but makes musical sense; the Nisi Dominus is a more athletic work that benefits from the power of the male voice, while the Stabat Mater, especially in Vivaldi's truncated and highly dramatic setting, may require the audience to identify with a female singer.

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco, Karina Gauvin, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Handel: Streams of pleasure (2011)

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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco, Karina Gauvin, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Handel: Streams of pleasure (2011)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco, Karina Gauvin, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Handel: Streams of pleasure (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 393 Mb | Total time: 75:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V5261 | Recorded: 2011

This much-awaited recording, where Canadian singers Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Karina Gauvin perform some of the most beautiful arias composed by Handel showcases outstanding and conniving talent. This project was born from a collaboration with Alan Curtis and his Complesso Barocco, one of the most famous and renowned ensembles in the baroque music field. The 15 arias, performed in solo or in duet, are jewels from 9 oratorios that use material from the Bible and provide a large overview of Handel's genius to depict each emotion, from tenderness to fury.

Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

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Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg - The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)
Quatuor Diotima, string quartet; Sandrine Piau, soprano; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 265 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naive | # V 5240 | Time: 01:04:19

Recordings that include strings quartets by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern are common, but an album that includes music for quartet and voice by each of them is a rarity. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, with a part for soprano in its third and fourth movements, is standard repertoire, but the version of Berg's Lyric Suite with a vocal part in the final movement is highly unusual, and Webern's bagatelle with voice, an unpublished movement apparently once intended to be part of the Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, receives what is probably its first recording. Novelty aside, the high standards of these performances make this a formidable release. Founded just before the turn of the millennium, Quatuor Diotima plays with the assurance and mutual understanding of a seasoned ensemble. The quartet has a lean, clean sound and the ensemble is immaculate, playing with exquisite expressiveness, an ideal combination for this repertoire.

Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Meilleurs moments: Best Of (2013)

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Meilleurs moments: Best Of (2013)

Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Meilleurs moments: Best Of (2013)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 284 MB | 01:00:22
Genre: Classical | Label: Analekta

Quelques notes issues du contralto velouté de Marie-Nicole Lemieux suffisent pour tomber sous le charme. Timbre unique, sens inné de la ligne musicale, apprivoisement des textes de l’intérieur, charisme étonnant, aisance apparente dans tous les répertoires, présence scénique remarquable, la chanteuse semble posséder tous les atouts. La carrière de celle qui se produit maintenant sur les grandes scènes du monde entier devait prendre son envol en 2000, alors qu’elle remporte, presque coup sur coup, le Concours Joseph-Rouleau et le Concours musical international Reine Élisabeth de Belgique. Premiers jalons d’un parcours qui deviendrait rapidement stellaire. Nous la retrouvons ici dans une compilation regroupant certaines des plus belles pages enregistrées sous étiquette Analekta, signées Scarlatti, Handel, Vivaldi et Brahms.

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Giulio Cesare (2012)

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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Giulio Cesare (2012)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Giulio Cesare (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.22 Gb | Total time: 77:55+74:08+68:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP30536 | Recorded: 2011

This exciting studio recording is the second project resulting from the collaboration between Marie-Nicole Lemieux Karina Gauvin and conductor and harpsichordist Alan Curtis' award winning Complesso Barocco. Giulio Cesare is one of Handel's most renowned operas and the role of Giulio Cesare is considered to be one of the most beautiful roles in the baroque opera. The full vocal cast is stunning and Alan Curtis shows once again why he is considered one of the world's leading Handel specialists.

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Ariodante (2011)

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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Ariodante (2011)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Ariodante (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,98 Gb | Total time: 69:54+63:50+59:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 5099907084423 | Recorded: 2010

The scope and grandeur of Handel's operatic output – the musical variety and inventiveness, the depth of psychological insight, as well as the sheer volume of works – continue to astonish as new operas are brought to light and more familiar works are given productions and recordings that do justice to the material. Ariodante, written in 1735, is nowhere nearly as frequently performed as the more famous operas like Giulio Cesare, but neither is it entirely obscure, and there have been several very fine modern recordings. This version with Alan Curtis leading Il Complesso Barocco can be recommended without reservation to anyone coming to the opera for the first time or for anyone who's already a fan.