Among the finest performers of early music and arbiters of period practices, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques turn their attention here to the composer whose work inspired the ensemble's name and purpose. In this 2000 disc devoted to the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Rousset and his ensemble turn in vigorous and appealing performances ...
Christophe Rousset's collection of overtures to 17 of Rameau's operas and opéra-ballets, played by his original instrument ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, won a 1998 Gramophone award for best Baroque non-vocal CD, and it's easy to hear why this outstanding performance was recognized. The ensemble plays with unflagging liveliness and brilliant, clean ...
The tragic operas of the French Baroque can be rough going for the new listener, whose eyes may glaze over when hearing about rules of French prosody, classical models, and Lully's dominance of the scene. But this single-disc recital solves any problems you may have had in encountering operatic music from Lully to Gluck. Credit soprano Véronique ...
Christophe Rousset's collection of overtures to 17 of Rameau's operas and opéra-ballets, played by his original instrument ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, won a 1998 Gramophone award for best Baroque non-vocal CD, and it's easy to hear why this outstanding performance was recognized. The ensemble plays with unflagging liveliness and brilliant, clean ...
Handel: Opera Seria is the third solo recital disc to come from soprano Sandrine Piau on Naïve Classique. In this instance, Piau is taking on the opera arias of ye big, bald, and perpetually peruked master of musicke, George Frideric Handel. Here Piau receives the sumptuous support of Les Talens Lyriques, led with expertise and good tempo choices ...
Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have done an immeasurable service to the revival of Baroque opera in modern times; of their superb 1996 set of Niccolò Jommelli's Armida Abbondata for FNAC it can be said that its entry into the recorded repertoire raised the bar on historically informed performances of this kind of material. Now ...
For musical fun from the gran siècle -- that wonderful period in the early eighteenth century when Louis XIV created his own personal pleasure palace in Versailles -- try this 2008 Naïve disc called Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles. With a program featuring selected works written for the king by Lully, Rameau, Desmarest, Gluck, and ...
The challenge for performers offering multigenerational Bach programs is that Bach's sons, to a greater or lesser degree, were Classical-era composers, and few groups do both Classical and Baroque music really well. This problem plagues even the superbly equipped ensemble Les Talens Lyriques and its top-notch harpsichordist and leader Christophe ...
Despite the clarity and attractiveness of much of the music the Spanish zarzuela has been tough to get a grip on for many listeners, at least outside Spain and Latin America. This disc by Spanish-born soprano Maria Bayo, originally recorded in 2003, remains a good place to start. Bayo and sensational French early music conductor Christophe Rousset ...
One might well be excused for thinking that Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques new Ambroisie recording of Antonio Salieri's opera La Grotta di Trofonio for being an album by the Smashing Pumpkins; with its wild and unconventional cover design it certainly looks more like something from Billy Corgan and company rather than a Viennese opera ...
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