Lalande - Les Fontaines de Versailles, Le Concert d’Esculape
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Label: CPO
Cat No: 5550972
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 25th September 2020
Contents
Works
Grande Piece in G major 'Fantaisie ou Caprice que le Roy demandoit souvent'Le Concert d'Esculape
Les Fontaines de Versailles
Artists
Virginia Warnken (mezzo-soprano)Molly Netter (soprano)
Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
Sophie Michaux (mezzo-soprano)
John Taylor Ward (baritone)
Brian Giebler (tenor)
Margot Rood (soprano)
Jesse Blumberg (baritone)
Olivier Laquerre (baritone)
Teresa Wakim (soprano)
Jason McStoots (tenor)
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Conductors
Paul O’DetteStephen Stubbs
Works
Grande Piece in G major 'Fantaisie ou Caprice que le Roy demandoit souvent'Le Concert d'Esculape
Les Fontaines de Versailles
Artists
Virginia Warnken (mezzo-soprano)Molly Netter (soprano)
Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
Sophie Michaux (mezzo-soprano)
John Taylor Ward (baritone)
Brian Giebler (tenor)
Margot Rood (soprano)
Jesse Blumberg (baritone)
Olivier Laquerre (baritone)
Teresa Wakim (soprano)
Jason McStoots (tenor)
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Conductors
Paul O’DetteStephen Stubbs
About
After the court had settled in Versailles with King Louis XIV in 1682, its musical microcosm also experienced a renewal. Les Fontaines de Versailles numbered among Lalande’s efforts to produce an oeuvre perfectly tailored for Versailles, both in its form as well as in its poetic content, thereby demonstrating his skill as a composer of ‘French music’ and displaying it in a proper light for the king. It is with refined sophistication that Les Fontaines de Versailles evokes the special relationship between the king and his gardens. Lalande beyond doubt occupied the first place among Louis XIV’s favourites: in 1689 the king named the thirty-one-year-old his ‘Surintendant de la Musique de la Chambre’, a post that before only Jean-Baptiste Lully and then one of his sons had held.
Cast (Les Fontaines de Versailes):
- Latone: Virginia Warnken (mezzo-soprano)
- Flore: Molly Netter (soprano)
- Apollon: Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
- Ceres: Sophie Michaux (mezzo-soprano)
- Encelade: John Taylor Ward (baritone)
- Bacchus: Brian Giebler (tenor)
- La Renommee: Margot Rood (soprano)
- Comus, Dieue des Festins: Jesse Blumberg (baritone)
- Le Dieu de Canal: Olivier Laquerre (baritone)
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