Monteclair - Cantates a Voix Seule
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BISCD1865
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 30th August 2011
Contents
Works
Monteclair, Michel Pignolet de
La mort de DidonLa morte di Lucretia
Le Retour de la Paix
Le Triomfe de la Constance
Pan et Syrinx
Artists
Emma Kirkby (soprano)London Baroque
Works
Monteclair, Michel Pignolet de
La mort de DidonLa morte di Lucretia
Le Retour de la Paix
Le Triomfe de la Constance
Pan et Syrinx
Artists
Emma Kirkby (soprano)London Baroque
About
An almost exact contemporary of François Couperin, and only some 15 years older than Rameau, Montéclair was also a composer working in all the genres current at the time, including that of the chamber cantata for one or two voices and strings, dealing mainly with subjects from classical history or mythology. The large majority used French texts with four Italian ones, including La Morte di Lucretia, recorded here.
The works The Return of Peace and Le Triomfe de la Constance both illustrate Montéclair’s skill at overcoming the challenges of producing a restricted instrumentation that provides effective backcloth for the action. The trumpets celebrating The Return of Peace are quite satisfactorily suggested by unison violins, and the shepherd's bagpipes are alluded to by two bass viols in Le Triomfe de la Constance.
Emma Kirkby and London Baroque have previously worked together on BIS with recordings of solo cantatas by Handel that have met with great acclaim.
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