Versailles: L'Île enchantée Capriccio Stravagante

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  • Release Date: 07/20/2004
  • Original Release: 2001
  • Sales Rank: 15,542
  • Label: ALPHA PRODUCTIONS
  • UPC: 3760014190162

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Versailles: L'Île enchantée

1LISTENPsyché, tragédie-ballet,
2LISTENPrélude for harpsichord i
3LISTENVos mespris chaque jour,
4LISTENSarabande for harpsichord
5LISTENLe bourgeois gentilhomme,
6LISTENPrélude for harpsichord i
7LISTENOmbre de Mon Amant
8LISTENPassacaille d'Armide, for
9LISTENGigue for 2 harpsichords
10LISTENLe bourgeois gentilhomme,
11LISTENL'Europe galante, opera-b
12LISTENWork(s): [Unspecified] Pr
13LISTENPassacaille for harpsicho
14LISTENPaschalia for 2 harpsicho
15LISTENL'Europe galante, opera-b
16LISTENAllemande à deux clavecin
17LISTENLes Voix Humaines, for vi
18LISTENPrelude for harpsichord i
19LISTENWork(s): [Unspecified] Sa
20LISTENLe bourgeois gentilhomme,
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Even by the supremely high production standards of Alpha recordings, this issue is especially splendid. Entitled Versailles, L'ile enchantée, it fully lives up to its name. As directed by Skip Sempé, the widely varied program features music written for Louis XIV's pleasure palace, performed by the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra with mezzo soprano Guillemette Laurens and bass violist Jay Bernfeld. Each work is superbly selected, and every performance is absolutely idiomatic and wonderfully alive. There is wit and tenderness and elegance and, yes, nobility to their performances, which taken together form as much a portrait of the Sun King as the palace of Versailles itself. As organized into eight Divertissements, Sempé's choices range from the grand "Ouverture de Psyché" by Lully to the intimate "Mes Yeux" by Campra, from the soulful "Les Voix Humaines" by Marais to the massive "Passacaille in C" by Louis Couperin. As captured in the evocative photographs by Jean-Baptiste Leroux and reproduced in Alpha's superlative program book, Versailles looks every bit as beautiful as this disc sounds. Anyone who loves Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music, will love this disc. James Leonard, All Music Guide

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