Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles | Alpha ALPHA959

Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles

Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA959

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 18th May 2015

Contents

Works

Campra, Andre

Tancrede
» Scene 1 (Act 4)
» Scene 1 (Act 5)

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine

Te Deum, H146
» In te Domine speravi
» Prelude
» Te aeternum Patrem

Leclair, Jean-Marie

Scylla et Glaucus
» Overture
» Scenes 2 & 3 (Act 5)

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

Amadis
» Chaconne
Armide
» Passacaille
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
» Marche pour la ceremonie des Turcs
» Quels spectacles charmants
» Reprise de la Marche pour la ceremonie des Turcs
Phaeton, LWV61
» Chaconne
Psyche
» Overture

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Dardanus
» Chaconne
» Overture
» Tambourins

Royer, Pancrace

Pyrrhus
» Portons partout l'horreur (Act 4)

Artists

Le Poeme Harmonique
Pygmalion
Cafe Zimmermann
Capriccio Stravagante
Les Nouveaux Caracteres
Orchestre des Temps Presents

Conductors

Vincent Dumestre
Raphael Pichon
Skip Sempe
Sebastien d’Herin
Olivier Schneebeli

Works

Campra, Andre

Tancrede
» Scene 1 (Act 4)
» Scene 1 (Act 5)

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine

Te Deum, H146
» In te Domine speravi
» Prelude
» Te aeternum Patrem

Leclair, Jean-Marie

Scylla et Glaucus
» Overture
» Scenes 2 & 3 (Act 5)

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

Amadis
» Chaconne
Armide
» Passacaille
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
» Marche pour la ceremonie des Turcs
» Quels spectacles charmants
» Reprise de la Marche pour la ceremonie des Turcs
Phaeton, LWV61
» Chaconne
Psyche
» Overture

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Dardanus
» Chaconne
» Overture
» Tambourins

Royer, Pancrace

Pyrrhus
» Portons partout l'horreur (Act 4)

Artists

Le Poeme Harmonique
Pygmalion
Cafe Zimmermann
Capriccio Stravagante
Les Nouveaux Caracteres
Orchestre des Temps Presents

Conductors

Vincent Dumestre
Raphael Pichon
Skip Sempe
Sebastien d’Herin
Olivier Schneebeli

About

Alpha invites you to prolong the pleasure of your visit to Versailles with this recording of the music you heard in the gardens: a selection of great works played by some of the finest musicians of today.

Almost two centuries of music, reviving the fabulous history of the palace up to the mid-eighteenth century and representing opera, ballet, the air de cour and other genres, are performed here by Le Poème Harmonique (conductor Vincent Dumestre), Pygmalion (conductor Raphaël Pichon), Café Zimmermann, Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra (conductor Skip Sempé), Les Nouveaux Caractères (conductor Sébastien d’Hérin), and l’Orchestre des Temps présents (conductor Olivier Schneebeli).

You’ll also discover some unreleased excerpts from Campra’s Tancrède and Leclair’s Scylla & Glaucus.

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