Rameau chez la Pompadour: Le Retour d’Astree, Les Sybarites | Alpha ALPHA876

Rameau chez la Pompadour: Le Retour d’Astree, Les Sybarites

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA876

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 23rd September 2022

Contents

Works

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Les Surprises de l'Amour
» Prologue 'Le Retour d'Astree'
Les Sybarites

Artists

Marie Perbost (soprano)
Eugenie Lefebvre (soprano)
Jehanne Amzal (soprano)
Clement Debieuvre (tenor)
Philippe Estephe (baritone)
David Witczak (baritone)
Ensemble Les Surprises

Conductor

Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas

Works

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Les Surprises de l'Amour
» Prologue 'Le Retour d'Astree'
Les Sybarites

Artists

Marie Perbost (soprano)
Eugenie Lefebvre (soprano)
Jehanne Amzal (soprano)
Clement Debieuvre (tenor)
Philippe Estephe (baritone)
David Witczak (baritone)
Ensemble Les Surprises

Conductor

Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas

About

The famous Marquise de Pompadour, favourite of King Louis XV for nearly twenty years, reigned over the arts at court. Rameau, whom she particularly admired, was omnipresent. He received a specific commission for the Théâtre des Petits Appartements, where the Marquise herself sang in the midst of a troupe of amateurs and professionals: the result was Les Surprises de l’Amour, from which the ensemble Les Surprises takes its name. Under the expert direction of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, the group presents here the very first recording of this ballet in its original 1748 version, including the prologue entitled Le Retour d’Astrée, and couples it with another commission for one of the court’s annual residences at Fontainebleau: Les Sybarites (1753), an acte de ballet whose principal couple is reminiscent of the King himself and his favourite. A first-rate vocal line-up brings these two works back to life: Marie Perbost, Eugénie Lefebvre, Jehanne Amzal, Clément Debieuvre, David Witczak, Philippe Estèphe.

Cast:
- Astrée, Hersilide: Marie Perbost (soprano)
- Philoé: Eugénie Lefebvre (soprano)
- Un Plaisir: Jehanne Amzal (soprano)
- Vulcain: Philippe Estèphe (baritone)
- Le temps, Astole: David Witczak (baritone)
- Agis: Clément Debieuvre (tenor)

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