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Christophe Rousset, Hugo Reyne - Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra (1995)

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Christophe Rousset, Hugo Reyne - Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra (1995)

Christophe Rousset, Hugo Reyne - Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 575 Mb | Total time: 52:04+54:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | 0630 10702-2 | Recorded: 1994, 1995

Here is a very special recording devoted to early 18th-century dance music for which we have recently rediscovered choreographies from the period. Such a discovery may well come as a surprise, since it is not generally realised that, long before the proliferation of various 20th-century systems of dance notation, an earlied system had already been invented and them forgotten, only to be rediscovered within the last few years.

Olivier Schneebeli, Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles - Lalande: Grands Motets (2018)

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Olivier Schneebeli, Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles - Lalande: Grands Motets (2018)

Olivier Schneebeli, Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Collegium Marianum - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Grands Motets (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 463 Mb | Total time: 78:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 924301 | Recorded: 2017

One of the great composing figures from the French Baroque, Michel-Richard de Lalande is starting to receive his just dues through modern recordings, and Glossa is happy to unveil a new release featuring Olivier Schneebeli directing Les Pages et Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in three of Lalande’s sumptuous grands motets. Very much a favoured composer during the reign of Louis XIV, Lalande progressively assumed – from the 1680s onwards – more and more of the principal court offices, and was called upon to provide sacred music for the Chapelle Royale within the Château de Versailles.

Carolyn Sampson, Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore - A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel (2014)

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Carolyn Sampson, Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore - A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel (2014)

A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel
by Lacoste, Lalande, Rameau, Rousseau, Fiocco & Mondonville
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 370 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 172 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68035 | Time: 01:12:55

GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2015 WINNER (RECITAL CATEGORY). A welcome return of Carolyn Sampson and Ex Cathedra to Hyperion, performing the rich, fulsome music of the French Baroque. Their recording of love songs from Rameau’s operas (Hyperion CDA67447) was hugely acclaimed for Sampson’s stylish, fluid, seductive performances, and ten years later her artistry is even more dazzling. This album is of particular interest as rather than concentrating on one composer it showcases the works written for the premiere soprano of the day, Marie Fel. Voltaire called her his ‘adorable nightingale’. For d’Aquin, she was an enchanted being. Marie Fel was the soprano who held an entire generation spellbound at the Paris Opéra and at Louis XV’s court during one of the most glorious periods of French music. With a voice described as ‘pure, charming, silvery’ (La Borde), ‘touching and sublime’ (Grimm) and ‘always lovely, always seductive’ (d’Aquin), she inspired some of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s finest music and introduced a whole new level of virtuosity and expression into the French singing tradition. Her long, triumphant career is traced through this fascinating recording.

Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Dies Irae, Miserere (1991)

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Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Dies Irae, Miserere (1991)

Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Dies Irae, Miserere (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 62:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia mundi | # HMC 901352 | Recorded: 1990

Originally composed for the funeral of the dauphine, Princess Marie-Anne-Christine-Victoire of Bavaria, on May 1, 1690, this remarkable setting of Dies irae was revised in 1711, either because of the dauphin's death, or that of Lalande's two daughters, both distinguished sopranos ; all died from smallpox within a period of six weeks. Lully's setting of Dies irae, for the death of the queen in 1683, had shown the possibilities of this text as a grand motet for soloists, choirs and orchestra. But it was Lalande, seven years later, who developed the concept, and produced a much more striking result - perhaps the first setting of Dies irae in the history of music where the composer exploited in such dramatic style the contrasts inherent in the 18 rhyming stanzas and final couplet of this 13th-century poem.

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi (2021)

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi (2021)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 59:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS048 | Recorded: 2020

Parmi les œuvres emblématiques de Versailles, les Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi figurent au premier plan. Musiques d’un Palais convoquant un monde de passions, de caractères, d’intrigues, d’échos de batailles… ennobli par le faste des trompettes et des hautbois, elles résonnent jusqu’à nos jours comme les musiques du Plus Grand Roi du Monde. Certes, ce sont des « Musiques de Table » comme on en trouve ailleurs en Europe (le Banchetto Musicale de Schein en 1617, la Tafelmusik de Telemann en 1733), mais quel Prince peut aligner pour ce faire les 24 Violons du Roi, et les vents de sa royale Ecurie ? Avec le luxe d’un orchestre d’Opéra, voici Louis XIV mangeant en public chaque jour, un moment essentiel de la journée.

Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Concert de Danse: Lully, Charpentier, Rebel, Lalande, Rameau (1999)

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Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Concert de Danse: Lully, Charpentier, Rebel,  Lalande, Rameau (1999)

Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Concert de Danse: Lully, Charpentier, Rebel, Lalande, Rameau (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 69:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent Records | # ACC96122 | Recorded: 1996

The 18th century was a time when deportment and noble behavior were essential for people of quality. Dance formed a major part of all social ceremonies and theatrical presentations. Nowhere was dancing more highly regarded than in France, where ballets de cour assumed great importance, and the Lullian tragedie en musique had its counterpart in the ballet en action of the opera-ballet. The Fantaisie (1729) and Plaisirs champetres (1734) of Jean-Fiery Rebel, reflecting the differing personalities of their prima ballerinas Camargo and Salle, have been called choreographic symphonies.

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel de Lalande: Te Deum & Grands Motets (1991)

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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel de Lalande: Te Deum & Grands Motets (1991)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel Delalande: Te Deum & Grands Motets (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 64:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901351 | Recorded: 1990

Called the Latin Lully"(whose worthy successor he was for 43 years under Louis XIV and Louis XV), Delalande took the "grand motet" practised at Versailles to the peak of its glory and its popularity. The Te Deum of 1684 is the epitome of his achievement in the genre, and it was organised, composed, and performed with the care reserved for true masterpieces. The listener will be equally astonished by the manner in which Delalande sets the words of Psalms 110 (111) and 137, whose emotional impact goes far beyond the conventions of the genre.

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel Richard de Lalande: Petits Motets (1992)

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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel Richard de Lalande: Petits Motets (1992)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel Richard de Lalande: Petits Motets (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 67:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901416 | Recorded: 1990, 1992

Petits Motets were generally sung in the Royal Chapel during the Mass between a Grand Motet and the Domine salvum fac Regem. The most extended piece here is a Miserere for solo voice by the King's surintendant de la musique, Lalande. In fact the nine solo verses are sung in alternation with plainchant which would have been intoned by nuns. William Christie, who directs this intimate sequence, divides the solo spoils of this expressive piece between three of his sopranos, Veronique Gens, Sandrine Piau and Arlette Steyer. It would be hard to assemble three more persuasive sopranos than these to execute the music. Their almost faultless intonation, fresh-sounding voices and careful expression are both musically delightful and contextually apposite. Comparisons between the three are, perhaps invidious but Steyer sounds the least assured, technically and stylistically, among them.

Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore - Michel-Richard De Lalande: Music for the Sun King (2002)

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Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore - Michel-Richard De Lalande: Music for the Sun King (2002)

Michel-Richard De Lalande: Music for the Sun King (2002)
Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir, Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra, Jeffrey Skidmore

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 328 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 197 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67325 | Time: 01:12:07

This resplendent CD introduces another outstanding 'early music' ensemble to Hyperion - Jeffrey Skidmore's Ex Cathedra, who will explore some of the lesser-known Baroque byways for us. They make their entrance with this programme of music by one of the four composers assigned to Louis XIV's Chapel in 1683. The disc gives us the opportunity to hear two of Lalande's 'grands motets' in full (substantial, sectional works in which episodes for vocal soloists are interspersed with passages for small ensembles and chorus, the orchestra providing both accompaniment and interludes), as well as a solo movement extracted from another one, and one of his instrumental pieces. This is music which was highly regarded both in the composer's own day and beyond, and performed throughout the eighteenth century.

Stéphane Fuget, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres (2021)

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Stéphane Fuget, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres (2021)

Stéphane Fuget, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 53:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS034 | Recorded: 2020

The Leçons de Ténèbres (Lessons of Darkness) became a favourite theme for musical compositions in the middle of the 17th century. Michel Lambert was the first French musician to compose a cycle in 1662, quickly followed by Charpentier and Lalande. But the most famous - and the first to have attracted the public of today and to be recorded - are those of François Couperin, dated 1714.

Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival - Michael-Richard de Lalande: Les Fontaines de Versailles (2020)

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Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival - Michael-Richard de Lalande: Les Fontaines de Versailles (2020)

Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival - Michael-Richard de Lalande: Les Fontaines de Versailles; Le Concert d’Esculape (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 72:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 097-2 | Recorded: 2019

Michel-Richard de Lalande is regarded as one of the great composers of the French Baroque, and so it is not surprising that our prizewinning Boston Early Music Ensemble has now turned to him. Along with his many sacred works, Lalande also wrote for the various court occasions that required secular music. Les Fontaines de Versailles, the work occupying a central position on this CD, above all contributed to Lalande’s increasing popularity. It was performed on 5 April 1683, some weeks before Lalande was appointed to the coveted post of 'Sous-maître de Chapelle.' After the court had settled in Versailles with King Louis XIV in 1682, its musical microcosm also experienced a renewal.

Thibaut Roussel - Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV's Chamber: Lully, Marais, Visée, Lalande (2020)

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Thibaut Roussel - Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV's Chamber: Lully, Marais, Visée, Lalande (2020)

Thibaut Roussel - Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV's Chamber: Lully, Marais, Visée, Lalande (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 347 Mb | Total time: 74:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS029 | Recorded: 2019

Night is falling. In this twilight of the reign of Louis XIV and at the end of his Grand Coucher, the king is at last free from protocol. He then orders the musicians of the Kings Chamber, to come to him; they are the most excellent in the kingdom. These Petits Concerts which were held in the evening before His Majesty enabled the king to hear his preferred repertoire from all that he had loved and even danced to. Here is the Sleep scene from Lullys Atys, the Sombres Deserts by Lambert, the Mutine by Visee, the Grande Piece Royale by Lalande, A Gigue by Marais, La Plainte by La Barre Thibaut Roussel has gathered around him the finest interpreters of the French baroque repertoire, to give us, as if in a walking dream, the intimate music of this Coucher du Roi. Let the night last, sings Le Camus, right up until Couperins Land of Dodo.

Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais - Michel Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy [4CDs] (1990)

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Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais - Michel Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy [4CDs] (1990)

Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais - Michel Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.28 Gb | Total time: 73:29+75:55+75:44+75:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMC 901337.40 | Recorded: 1990

La Simphonie du Marais under their director Hugo Reyne are terrific. They bring this music alive with such stylish performances that bring fine textures, variety, colour and often some exotic moments, Hugo Reyne knowing just how to lift these suites to reveal every fine moment … These performances remain the benchmark.