Les Plaisirs d'Amour

On this CD:

1. Frere Jehan
Composed by Nicolas de Marle
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

2. Amour m'a mis
Composed by Vulfran Samin
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

3. Fault-il pour ung verre casse
Composed by Pierre de Villiers
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

4. Comment mon coeur
Composed by Vulfran Samin
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

5. De noz deux cueurs
Composed by Jean Guyon
Performed by Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

6. En languissant
Composed by Pierre Cadeac
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

7. Si les oiseaux (from "Le Parangon")
Composed by Gabriel Coste
Performed by Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

8. Mariez-moy mon pere
Composed by Robert Godard
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

9. Souspir d'amours, pensTe de plaisir
Composed by Henry Fresneau
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

10. Amour et moy
Composed by Pierre Cadeac
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

11. Comment mon coeur
Composed by Pierre Colin
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

12. Ha, quel torment
Composed by Robert Godard
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

13. Trac, trac! Qu'est la?
Composed by Henry Fresneau
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

14. Dictes ouy
Composed by Vulfran Samin
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

15. Oeil importum
Composed by Henry Fresneau
Performed by Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

16. Doeul, double doeul
Composed by Nicolle Des Celliers D'Hesdin
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

17. Rien n'est plus cher
Composed by Pierre de Villiers
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

18. Vive sera
Composed by Nicolas de Marle
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

19. Piene et travail
Composed by Henry Fresneau
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

20. Or my rendez mon karolus
Composed by Guillaume Heurteur
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

21. Soyez seur
Composed by Jean Bastard
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

22. Cueur sans mercy
Composed by Pierre de Villiers
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

23. Gaultier rancontra janeton
Composed by Jean Guyon
Performed by Mary Rawcliffe, Robert Strizich, Leta E. Miller
Conducted by Nicole Paiement

Tracks:

Nicomede
Rencontre Des Italiens
L'Ecole Des Femmes
L'Homme Oiseau
La Chanson De La Mere
La Foire De Saint-Laurent/Premiere Partie/Deuxieme Partie
Theme De L'Amour
La Foire De Toulouse
La Voyage
Armande
La Princesse Elide
Carnaval Et Revolte
Armande
La Mort De Madeleine
Le Combat Des Enfants
La Chambre Aux Miroirs
La Mort De Moliere: Henry Purcell, Extrait De King Arthur

Customer Reviews:

A beautiful rare gem from the soundtracks universe.......2006-03-18

I bought this CD with certain hesitation because it is a soundtrack. However, when hearing it the subtle sounds, the masterful interpretations, the beautiful voices of Marjorie Vance and Elisabeth Guy-Kummer and the master direction of Rene Clemencic, moved my soul tremendously. La Princesse Elide, Carnaval et Revolte, Armande and La Mort de Moliere will be, for sure, amongst the favourites of most listeners of this not to be missed album, a rare find in Amazon.com although normal in Amazon.fr. And hear carefully to the compelling percussions in La Foire de Toulouse. Buy and enjoy.

A perfect way to introduce yourself to the Clemencic Consort.......2003-11-12

The early-music group led by Rene Clemencic puts on a tremendous performance in this soundtrack disc of the 1978 film MOLIERE. This compilation allows you to sample the consort's instrumentals (uniquely historical) their lively interpretations, excellent vocals by the Deller consort, plus original Clemencic compositions. A great way to introduce yourself to this reknowned group of international artists.

Patricia Petibon ~ French baroque arias (Rameau, Lully, Charpentier, Grandval) / Les Folies Françoises, Cohen-Akenin

Average customer rating:

Man, That woman really can sing !
Delicious singing, gorgeous music... this is a must-have.
I would give this CD seven stars if I could!
Perfect!
Affect and early music performance

Patricia Petibon ~ French baroque arias (Rameau, Lully, Charpentier, Grandval) / Les Folies Françoises, Cohen-Akenin
Jean-Philippe Rameau , Marc-Antoine Charpentier , Jean-Baptiste Lully , Nicolas Racot de Grandval , Patrick Cohen-Akenine , Patricia Petibon , and Les Folies Françoises
Manufacturer: Virgin Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005IA1U
Release Date: 2002-02-12

Tracks:

Platee: Air De Clarine: Soleil, Fuis De Ces Lieux
Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Ariette De L'Amour: Volez, Plaisirs, Celebrez Ce Beau Jour
Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Entree Des Egyptiens
Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Ariette De L'Egyptienne: L'Amant Que J'Adore
Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Ariette De L'Egyptienne: Amour, Lance Tes Traits
Platee: Air De Folie: Formones Les Plus Brillants Conc...Aux Langueurs D'Apollon
David Et Jonathas: A-t-on Jamais Souffert Une Plus Rude Peine?
Armide: Prld/Armide: Enfin, Il Est En Ma Puissance
Armide: Le Perfide Renaud Me Fuit
Les Indes Galantes: Air De Phani: Viens, Hymen
Les Indes Galantes: Air De Zima: Regnez, Plaisirs Et Jeux
Les Indes Galantes: Chaconne
Rien Du Tout

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This program of scenes and arias by Rameau, Charpentier, Lully, and Grandval is well designed to display Patricia Petibon's consummate vocal technique and historically informed artistry. Her florid coloratura, going up to high D- and E-flat (in the low period-instrument tuning) is clearly articulated and perfectly in tune. She can change color, nuance, and expression on a single note, and her mastery of the style is complete. She captures the seriousness as well as the humor in Rameau's two cantatas, the sorrow of Jonathan's lamentation in Charpentier's "David and Jonathan," the vacillation between reluctant attraction and furious vengeance in Lully's dramatic scene "Armide," and the rollicking fun in the final tour-de-force, Grandval's "Rien du tout"--a wicked parody of all singers and singing styles.

The voice itself takes some getting used to. In keeping with period practice, it is mostly lacking vibrato and so cool and bright as to seem shrill and strident. In the Lully, however, it becomes warmer, darker, and truly expressive. A large group of strings, winds, and percussion supports her splendidly, sometimes with only one or two instruments, sometimes with full orchestral effects that set the stage and underline mood and atmosphere. The musicians come into their own in the numerous instrumental sections, which are played with great verve, rhythmic incisiveness, character, and a wonderful sound. --Edith Eisler

Customer Reviews:

Man, That woman really can sing !.......2006-11-09

In addition to Veronique Gens that is..........

Delicious singing, gorgeous music... this is a must-have........2004-04-30

Fine champagne fizzing from a French goblet... exquisite use of flirtation's fan behind cocquettish eyes... bitter-sweet laments and sighs over love and life... all with unmistakable French style and elegance. This is how Patricia Petibon has conveyed her performances of these fine baroque French arias.

As a fellow soprano specialising both in early music and other later classical vocal styles, I am extremely fastidious in my likes and dislikes when it comes to singers. When, therefore, I find a singer whose voice, intelligence and musicality produce ravishing quality like this, I am in alt...

In contrast to some of the comments here, I do not find Ms Petibon's voice shrill or white (except when she uses it so deliberately in order to create a particular emotional or stylistic effect). On the contrary, it is of a crystalline purity which she is able to tinge with warmer colours when necessary. I was hugely impressed by this recording, a worthy follow-up to the unbelievably beautiful recording of the Couperin Leçons de tènèbres which was sung by Petibon and Sophie Daneman.

What a sense of fun Patricia Petibon has! It's marvellous to hear baroque music performed with such stylish humour and grace, instead of the tediously uninterpreted choir-boy style which is considered by some to be the "correct" way of singing this type of aria. I listened with particular closeness to the arias from "Armide", which I had just performed myself - and was enchanted by Petibon's singing of them. Even though her voice is light in colour, she is perfectly adept at conveying vengeful hatred, despairing love, and a right royal snarling bad humour!

The accompanying instruments are taut, graceful, and beautifully recorded. The result is a treat to hear.

This CD is most highly recommended by me - and believe me, sopranos are tough critics of each other...!

I would give this CD seven stars if I could!.......2004-04-24

The beautiful and talented Patricia Petibon is simply stunning in this recording! If you've never listened to much Baroque opera this would be a great place to start! The music ranges from deeply emotional to whimsical. Petibon sings everything with style, panache, pizzazz and a deep commitment to the music and the composers.
The Baroque orchestra that accompanies her is new to me and they play with great verve.

What is so wonderful about this disc is that it is a genuine first - it is, as far as I know, the only disc in existence devoted the arias of Rameau, Lully, Charpentier and Grandval from a single singer. Bored with predictable collections of Opera Seria arias? Fed up with all the collections of the same Handel arias made by various sopranos, mezzos, countertenors, et cetera? Wondering what, exactly, the French were doing while the rest of Europe was worshipping castrati?

Well, look no further! You have it all here on this one marvelous CD! Here new 'French Touch' CD (on DECCA) shouldn't be missed either!

Long live Patricia Petibon!

Perfect!.......2003-11-19

This was one of the first opera aria recital CD's that I've ever purchased, and it got me hooked on Baroque opera, French or otherwise. I picked up this record originally because I found the singer very attractive; not the deepest reason, but the MUSIC turned out to be immnesely enjoyable, even if they would've put artwork or a photo of an opera-house on the cover.

To begin with, Petibon's voice is beautiful. As the other reviewer(s) put it, it is a cool, vibrato-less voice that might SEEM shrill, but her voice is never unpleasant. In fast or slow pieces, she is always a pleasure to listen to. Besides the sheer beauty of timbre of her voice, her musicanship is incredible: her interpretations are always appropriate, coloring the piece with humor, excitment, sex appeal (especially the Armida piece), anger, you-name-it. Technically she is very impressive, and handles the disc's runs, cascades, top-notes, etc. very well. (This disc is by no means a firweworks display though).

The orchestra plays with the same degree of musicianship, technicality and beauty. In some of the Rameaus pieces (especially the march), the instrumental textures really show off the great harmonies and voicings that Rameau is famous for; this disc is a great introduction to the composer's music, I wish she recorded Rameau more often.

Finally, the music itself is unique, interesting and entertaining all at the same time. The 2 two excerpts from Lully are not conventional arias, but they display how well the composer was able to blend drama into music. His music is both at the same time, and it soudns cliched but you have to hear it to treally understand it. The piece from Charpentier from "David and Jonathan" is stirring, and shows off what a talented singer and skilled orchestra can do with good music: it is musical, stirring, anguished and not something you will (probably) ever hear at the Met.
A wordy review, but this is one of my favorite records, one that I think everyone who has an intrest in the Baroque period should listen to. If you''re looking for an introduction to this very unique corner of classical music, try this CD.

Affect and early music performance.......2003-04-24

Patricia Petibon's performance on this recording seems wholly appropriate for the Baroque era repertoire she is singing. Early music performance in general stresses that the musician clearly present the affect of the piece. This, Petibon does. She is not afraid to sound thin, shrill or even ever so slightly out of tune. These artistic allowances, I'm sure are all intended and allow for word painting. She has a versatile style, sounding warm and serene, cold and sharp, and even overly-dramatic and funny.
In the small company of early music performers who strive to be authentic as possible, she is welcome.

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Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil
Jean-Baptiste Lully , Jordi Savall , and Le Concert des Nations
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ASIN: B000071XA6
Release Date: 2003-04-08

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Great Opera

Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour

Manufacturer: Wea International
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ASIN: B000005E5O
Release Date: 2002-08-12

Tracks:

Ouverture
Ritournelle
Entree Des Crotoniates
Rigaudon
Entree Des Suivants
Mouvement De Chaconne (Ii)
Annonce De Diane
Rondeau (I)
Entree Des Sirenes (Ii)
Sommeil D'anacreon (Iii)
Gavotte Tendre Pour Les Graces

Customer Reviews:

Great Opera.......2007-01-24

This one is 5 star and Rameau's "La Princess de Navarre" is 6 star!

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Les Plaisirs d'Amour

Manufacturer: Helicon Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000006C5X
Release Date: 1998-09-01

Tracks:

Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Frere Jehan'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Amour m'a mis'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Fault-il pour ung verre casse'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Comment mon coeur'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'De noz deux cueurs'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'En languissant'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Si les oyseaulx'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Mariez-moy mon pere'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Souspir d'amours'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Amour et moy'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Comment mon coeur'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Ha, quel torment'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Trac, trac! Qu'est la?'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Dictes ouy'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Oeil importum'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Doeul, double doeul'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Rien n'est plus cher'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Vive sera'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Piene et travail'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Or my rendez mon karolus'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Soyez seur'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Cueur sans mercy'
Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Gaultier rancontra janeton'

Les Plaisirs du Palais: Drinking Songs of the Renaissance

Average customer rating:

Not really drinking songs, but nice anyway

Les Plaisirs du Palais: Drinking Songs of the Renaissance

Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi
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ASIN: B00005BCY2
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

Priere devant le repas, O souverain Pasteur
En Tour la feste Saint Martin
En languissant avoir secours j'attens
C'est tout abus
Triquedon daine
Hau. hau je boys
Je pers espoir
Aupres de vous a 2 voix
Secouez moy
Si vous n'avez madame
La chasse au lievre
Bransle de Champaigne/Alemande du pied de cheval/Bransle de Poictou
Que n'est elle aupres de moy
Aupres de vous a 4 voix
Ung souvenir me conforte
Laissons amour
Mirelaridon
Musae Jovis
Pour quelque paine que j'endure
Ung vray musicien
Priere apres le repas, Pere esternel

Customer Reviews:

Not really drinking songs, but nice anyway.......2003-04-22

I find it difficult to rate anything without putting it in context. I expected ribald drinking songs similar to "Gaudeamus Sigiture"(sp?) (Latin for "drink to friendship".) For those who never heard of it, think of a bunch of mideval college students who are a wee bit over-trained in Latin and a wee bit intoxicated - hanging out in an alehouse. Well, that's what I was expecting, but not what I got.

These songs are more about eating than drinking. There IS a drinking song or two. There are also two prayers. (aka Grace).

Nicely done. Just, different from what I expected!

Tracks:

Te Deum: Symphonie
Bocanne Primitive
Bocanne Compliqu
Phan: Troupe d'AstrDansante (Prologue)
Ballet de la Nuit: Ouverture
Ballet des Plaisirs: Sarabande
Ballet de la Nuit: Le Roi Reprntant le Soleil Levant
Xerx Air Pour Les Matelots Jouant des Trompettes Marines
Xerx Air Pour Les Esclaves et Singes Dansants
Xerx Air Pour Les Postures de Scaramouche
Xerx Air Pour Les Docteurs, Frivelins et Polichinelles
Xerx Air Pour Les Esclaves Dansants
Idylle Sur la Paix: Air Pour Madame la Dauphine
Ballet d'Alcidiane: Ritournelle et Air de Mademoiselle Hilaire
Ballet d'Alcidiane: Ouverture
Triomphe de l'Amour: Ouverture
Pers Entrdes DivinitInfernales (Acte III, Sc 10)
Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Marche Pour la Cmonie des Turcs
Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Giourdina
Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Chaconne des Scaramouches, Frivelins et ...
Ombre de Mon Amant (Air de Cour)

Tracks:

Triomphe de l'Amour: Prde de la Nuit
Pomone: Passons Nos Jours Dans Ces Vergers (Acte I, Sc 1)
Pomone: Que Voyez-Vous, Mes Yeux? (Acte II, Sc 1)
Armide: Plus J'Observe Ces Lieux (Acte II, Sc 3) [Instrumental]
Atys, Le Sommeil: Dormons, Dormons Tous (Acte III, Sc 4)
Armide: Passacaille (Acte V)
Armide: Prde (Acte II, Sc 5)
Folies d'Espagne
Amants Magnifiques: Entrd'Apollon
Triomphe de l'Amour: Entrd'Apollon
Triomphe de l'Amour: Deuxi Air (Acte IV, Sc 2)
Isis: C'est Lui Dont Les Dieux Ont Fait Choix - Publions en Tous Lieux
Armide: Que l'lat de Son Nom (Prologue)
Amadis: Esprits EmpressNous Plaire - Que le Ciel Annonce la ...

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Anthologia

Manufacturer: Xxi-21 Canada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00013NDR8
Release Date: 2003-12-23

Tracks:

Damnation de Faust, For Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, B: Nature Immense
Romet Juliette, Opera: Ah! L-Toi Soleil
L' Africaine, Grand Opera in 5 Acts: Pays Merveilleux... Paradis!
Hdiade, Opera in 4 Acts: Adieu Donc!
Manon, Comic Opera in 5 Acts: Ah! Fuyez Douce Image
Werther, Lyric Drama in 4 Acts: Pourquoi Me Riller?
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: La Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jet
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: C'est Toi? C'est Moi!
Contes d'Hoffmann, Opera in 4 Acts: Il ait une Fois a Cour ...
Contes d'Hoffmann, Opera in 4 Acts: Allons! Courage et Confiance
Contes d'Hoffmann, Opera in 4 Acts: l'Amour dans le Bruit et le Vin
Contes d'Hoffmann, Opera in 4 Acts: Dieu Quelle Ivresse!
Contes d'Hoffmann, Opera in 4 Acts: C'est une Chanson d'Amour
Lohengrin, Opera, WWV 75: Aux Bords Lointains
Siegfried, Opera, WWV 86c: Air de la Forge
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: La Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jet
Werther, Lyric Drama in 4 Acts: J'Aurai Sur Ma Poitrine
Tosca, Opera: de Beautales!
Tosca, Opera: Le Ciel Luisait d'oiles

Tracks:

Faust, Opera: Rien! En Vain J'Interroge
Faust, Opera: Mais Ce Dieu, Que Peut-Il Pour Moi?
Faust, Opera: Moi Les Plaisirs!
Faust, Opera: Quel Trouble Inconnu Me Ptre?
Faust: Salut! Demeure Chaste et Pure
Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast Announcement, D
Fille du Rment, Opera: Ils l'Ont Emmen. Quoi, Vous M'Aimez?
Fille du Rment, Opera: Ah! Mes Amis, Quel Jour de F?
Fille du Rment, Opera: Tous Les Trois Ris
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: La Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jet
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: Las, Las dans la Montagne
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: Non! Je Ne Veux Plus T'outer
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: Qui Est-LBel Officier
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: Il Est Temps Encore
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: Ma M, Je la Vois
Romet Juliette, Opera: Ange Adorable
Romet Juliette, Opera: Sc du Balcon
Romet Juliette, Opera: Ah! L-Toi Soleil
Romet Juliette, Opera: Va, Je T'Ai Pardonn

Tracks:

Radio Interview with Raoul Jobin, CHRC, Quc, Ca
Werther, Lyric Drama in 4 Acts: Pourquoi Me Riller?
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: La Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jet
Carmen, Op-Comique in 4 Acts: La Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jet
Contes d'Hoffmann, Opera in 4 Acts: Lnde de Klainzach
Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), Opera: Vogliatemi Bene
Alceste (Italian Version), Opera, In 3 Acts, WQ. 3: Misero! E Che Far
Agnus Dei, For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra) (Inter
e: O Doux Printemps d'Autrefois, For Voice &
Work(s): Je T'Ai Donnon Coeur/Le Pays du Sourire
Si Vous l'Aviez Compris for Voice & Piano (Or Ense
Rameaux, For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra)
Notre P
Mariage des Roses, Song for Voice & Piano, M. 8
Rosary, For Voice & Piano
Hosanna for Voice & Orchestra
Work(s): Sancta Maria

Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil

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A very exciting recording
"Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque" 10 thumbs up!
Gorgeous Swing for Le Roi-Soleil
The Sun King's Most Beloved Composer Really Shines in this Performance!
Recommended highly

Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil

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Lully - Ballet Music for the Sun King / Mary Enid Haines · Aradia Baroque Ensemble · Kevin Mallon
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Vivaldi: La Viola da Gamba in Concerto
Lully: Le Roi Danse

ASIN: B000031WY0
Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Ov
Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Gavotte
Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Canaries
Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Marche Pour La Ceremonie Turque
Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Premier Air Des Espagnols: Sarabande
Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Second Air Des Espagnols: Gigue
Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': L'Entree Des Scaramouches, Trivelins Et Arlequins
Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Chaconne Des Scaramouches, Trivelins Et Arlequins
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Danse De Neptune
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Les Suivants De Neptune
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Prld Des Trompettes Et Autres Instruments Pour Mars
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Les Hommes Et Femmes Armes
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Rondeau Du Mariage Force
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Second Air ('Le Mariage Force')
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Bourree Du Mariage Force
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Bourree Du Divertissement De Chambord
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Sym Des Plaisirs
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Les Esclaves
Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Menuet Pour Les Trompettes
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Marche Des Combattans
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Menuet
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Loure Pour Les Pecheurs
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Echos
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Rondeau De La Gloire
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': La Pompe Funebre
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Rondeau Pour La Fete Marine
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Les Vents
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': La Fete Infernale: 1er Air
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': 2eme Air, Les Demons
Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Marche Des Assiegeants
Chaconne De L'Amour Medecin

Customer Reviews:

A very exciting recording.......2006-09-23

This is a marvellous introduction to the French Baroque music, 17th century music and the music from the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully. I bought this CD because I love Lully and because I am a fan of Jordi Savall and his Concert des Nations.

So what is on this CD?

Well, for your money you get some excellent recordings of orchestral movements from the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully. These movements are in the various dance forms popular in the French court in the 17th century. The music is colourful, rhythmic and stylish. Lully was a great tunesmith and he had a great feel for dance.

Please, if you buy no other CD of Lully's music in your life, please consider this one.

"Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque" 10 thumbs up!.......2006-08-17

If you love Lully's music you will give it 10 stars. Great recording too!

Gorgeous Swing for Le Roi-Soleil.......2006-03-25

Although I used to study music and I knew his name, I hadn't listened Jean-Baptiste Lully's music. I listened to music of Ramaeu, Vivaldi, Purcell, J.S.Bach, and Handel but no Lully's.
First time I listened his music was from French film "Le Roi Danse" which was a story about Lully's life with Louis XIV and Moliere. Music impressed me so much that even I thought it was not by Lully, but it was.

So I bought this CD to listen in a complete way to "la musique pour le roi-soleil (the music for the sun king)". I would say, the music is like as gorgeous as Château de Versailles. The first suit "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman)" is called as the masterpiece of Lully and Moliere collaboration. I love fourth piece, Marche pour la C?r?monie turque (March for the Turkish ceremony)" which was also used in the film, and 13th melancholy piece is also my favorite.

My impression of Lully's music is swing, suppose French baroque style upright swing. Lully himself danced balley and he composed many pieces for ballet for Louis XIV dances. "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" is also a ballet, a comedy-ballet. Listening to his music, tapping feet, I wonder the ballet at that time focused on jump rather than turn, step, or movement.
Performance by Le Concert De Nations is also impressive and commentary by Philippe Beaussant is interesting as a view of music history.

One another I like about this CD is the package. It is paper three-fold and put the music score inside, very fashionable. The front picture if the King family is gorgeous too. Usually I drop packages to change to thin plastic cases but I will keep this package.

The Sun King's Most Beloved Composer Really Shines in this Performance!.......2005-10-13

As the main reviewer mentions, the French Baroque style is completely original in its sound so that even one with little familiarity in Baroque styles will recognize instantly. Jean-Baptiste Lully's music is probably the most regal, warm, and literally gay of all the Baroque music composed in France, but also one of the least performed. Lully is actually a very underrated composer and this album is probably the best example of how underrated he has remained which is unfortunate because his work is highly original and as complex as any other contemporary Baroque work. Jordi Savall and Le Concert Des Nations are undisputably a very few the very best performers of French Baroque pieces and each use 17th-18th century authentic instruments. The recording quality of this album is also stupendous. This album is a gem for anyone looking to expand their horizons in Baroque music or curious about French Baroque specifically.

Jean-Baptiste Lully was actually of Italian origins and his French style was influenced in some parts by his native Italy but mostly by French Late Renaissance and very early Baroque folkloric styles. Lully was active in the mid-17th century in the court of Louis XIV, The Bourbon Sun King and founder of Versailles who, in addition to having reigned for about 75 years, was the greatest patron of the arts and sciences in Europe during his time. This is of course music for the Sun King and so the pieces usually have a regal Baroque weightiness to them in trying to portray the absolute monarch as the mighty Jove who appeared as thunder but who moved on in his royal procession as regally and lightly as a cloud. Such techniques in the strings were mostly imitated and refined by contemporaries and used in later German Baroque concerto works such those of Bach, Telemann, and Handel. This regal weightiness is also carried by a lot of brass but Lully always presents his brass arrangements lightly unlike his heavier German and especially English Baroque counterparts. Accentuating its classicist themes, the music simultaneously conveys both the typical aristocratic fluff of the Bourbon court as well as its weighty Olympian pageantry demonstrated in his Turkish procession. In other parts, some of the ballad pieces make one feel as if they have just left the stuffy aristocratic halls of Versailles to join some jovial musketeers merrily drinking in a common nearby tavern instead. Lully's music is highly unique, expressive, and generally jovial with a lot of tonality: he uses a lot of period dances for his pieces such as sarabandes, gavottes, etc. There's also a lot more use of the viola da gamba, lute, and various percussion than other contemporary Baroque pieces but somewhat typical in French ones. The most moving pieces in these arrangements might just be those for solo Baroque violin and lute or a small accompaniment: they are very expressive and as hauntingly beautiful and divine as any of Biber's comparable works or those of Marais. Lully was simply a genius in very evocative music that seemed to defy its own excess demands for pomp and frivolity. He is certainly one of the most innovate composers of the Baroque period. Lully is actually the main founder of both modern ballet and opera as forms of art which he first performed in the court of Versailles as distinctive musical repertoires incorporating theatrical and dance forms. Louis XIV was indeed so enamoured with Lully's majestic works that he ignored Cardinal Mazarin's resentments and France's own capital laws against homosexuality so that he could keep him under the patronage of his court. Although tragic, Lully's death is somewhat ironically as fatalistic as many of the classicist subjects of his ballets and operas: as if he had been a gifted muse who rendered Apollo jealous and so was struck down by Fate. While passionately conducting a piece using a heavy set staff weighing several pounds, he accidentally crushed his foot and died of gangrene soon after. He was an artist who died from his passion in a true sense and this is always a touching end for an artist in terms of posterity. He was replaced by Marin Marais as court composer whose pieces are also exquisitely performed by Jordi Savall solo on the viola and with Le Concert Des Nations for his orchestral works.

Lully was definitely an accomplished master of music and very original. A composer who is more obscure simply for the fact that he's not played as much as Bach or Vivaldi and that the French Baroque is not as common in performance circles. Lully however was certainly no less accomplished in his genius than any other of the great Baroque masters. Although many French composers such as Marais and Rameau would imitate his expressive style throughout the 18th century particularly in their operas and ballets, none of them could ever match it. In terms of French Baroque, I strongly recommend you get every piece you can by Jordi Savall and Le Concert Des Nations as they are few of the very foremost experts on performing in the French style. Another decent group is Les Arts Florrisants who have done various French Baroque performances. There are few other groups and artists that perform Lully or any French Baroque besides the latter anyway and most of them that do don't even compare to them. Their CDs are typically more expensive than the common labels and might have to be ordered but the quality of the performances and the recordings are really worth every penny believe me. Many of Savall's earlier performances are also starting to become hard to find.

Recommended highly.......2002-04-16

I am not as familiar as some with the music of Lully, but enough to know where Handel must have taken some of his points when he himself became the master splendour and majesty in music!

The music is astounding to say the very least. Though I am still quite partial to the 'Handelian' brand of grandeur, Lully also seems to have stolen my heart with this most royal and dignified collection of pieces, a fascinating and important compilation. I commend warmly the performers and conductor for an astounding example of excellence in interpretation, and recommend highly this recording to all.

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