Handel Arias (2007) more music like this

performed by Danielle de Niese (soprano), Les Arts Florissants Orchestra, William Christie (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

Given Danielle de Niese's astronomic rise to prominence in the late twentieth century (she made her Met debut at the age of 19 as Barbarina), it's surprising it took until 2007 for her voice to make it onto disc, but it was worth the wait. For her first album she has chosen a recital of arias from Handel operas, some familiar and some relatively ...

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Handel: Serse (2004) more music like this

performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Antonio Abete (baritone), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano), Giovanni Furlanetto (bass), Lawrence Zazzo (counter tenor), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Silvia Tro (mezzo-soprano), Les Arts Florissants Orchestra
composed by George Frederick Handel

Back in the nineteenth century, humorist Edward Lear wrote in his Nonsense Alphabet the following verse for the letter "X:" "X was King Xerxes, whom Papa much wished to know; but this he could not do, because Xerxes died long ago." Much of the same condition can be applied to George Frideric Handel's 1738 opera about Xerxes, properly referred to ...

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Charpentier: Médée more music like this

performed by Bernard Deletre (bass), François Bazola (bass), Isabelle Desrochers (soprano), Jean-Marc Salzmann (bass), Les Arts Florissants, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano), Mark Padmore (haute contre vocal), Monique Zanetti (viol), Noemi Rime (soprano)
composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

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Handel: Acis and Galatea more music like this

performed by Alan Ewing (bass), Andrew Sinclair (tenor), David Le Monnier (baritone), Francois Piolino (tenor), Joseph Cornwell (tenor), Les Arts Florissants, Patricia Petibon (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Sophie Daneman (soprano), William Christie (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Purcell: Divine Hymns (2007) more music like this

performed by Anne-Marie Lasla (viola da gamba), Claire Debono (soprano), Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo), Hannah Morrison (soprano), Konstantin Wolff (bass), Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew (tenor), Thomas Michael Allen (counter tenor), William Christie (organ)
composed by Henry Purcell, John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, William Croft

With one singer to a part and very sparing use of continuo, this 2006 Virgin recording of Divine Hymns by Henry Purcell, William Croft, John Blow, and Pelham Humfrey is both lively and severe. Performed by Les Arts Florissants under the direction of William Christie, the works here express a huge emotional range, and the singers -- tenor Paul ...

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Handel: Alcina (Highlights) more music like this

performed by Kathleen Kuhlmann (vocals), Les Arts Florissants, Natalie Dessay (vocals), Renée Fleming (vocals), Susan Graham (vocals), William Christie (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Rameau: Les Fêtes d'Hébé (1997) more music like this

performed by Galle Mechaly (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Layrent Slaars (baritone), Les Arts Florissants, Luc Coadou (baritone), Maryseult Wieczorek (mezzo-soprano), Matthieu Lecroart (baritone), Paul Agnew (tenor), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau

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Handel: Alcina more music like this

performed by Eric Demarteau (bass), Juanita Lascarro (soprano), Kathleen Kuhlmann (contralto), Laurent Collobert (bass), Laurent Naouri (bass), Maurizio Rossano (tenor), Michael Loughlin-Smith (tenor), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Renée Fleming (soprano)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Haendel: Messiah more music like this

performed by Andreas Scholl (alto), Barbara Schlick (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Nathan Berg (bass), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Tommy Williams (soprano), Les Arts Florissants Orchestra, William Christie (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Charpentier: Judicium Salomonis (2006) more music like this

performed by Ana Quintans (dessus), João Fernandes (bass), Leif Aruhn-Solén (counter tenor), Marc Mauillon (bass), Marc Molomot (counter tenor), Maud Gnidzaz (dessus), Neal Davies (bass), Paul Agnew (counter tenor), Les Arts Florissants (choir, chorus)
composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

This Virgin Classics release reunites William Christie and Les Arts Florissants with the music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a composer for whom it can be said Christie has done more to expose than any other he has taken on. This is saying a lot, as Christie has also made extensive recorded forays into the works of Campra, Lully, Montéclair, ...

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Salve Regina (2005) more music like this

performed by Anne-Marie Lasla (viola da gamba), Catherine Girard (violin), Charles Zebley (flute), Les Arts Florissants, Maia Silberstein (violin), Paul Agnew (haute contre vocal), Ruth Unger (flute), William Christie (organ)
composed by André Campra, François Couperin

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Handel: Orlando (1996) more music like this

performed by Harry van der Kamp (bass), Hilary Summers (contralto), Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano), Rosa Mannion (soprano), Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Les Arts Florissants Orchestra, William Christie (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte [Highlights] more music like this

performed by Anna-Maria Panzarella (soprano), Anton Scharinger (baritone), Delphine Haidan (alto), Doris Lamprecht (mezzo-soprano), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Les Arts Florissants, Linda Kitchen (vocals), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Reinhard Hagen (bass)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Schütz: Kleine geistliche Konzerte more music like this

performed by Christophe Coin (cello), Konrad Junghanel (lute), Mihoko Kimura (violin), Rene Jacobs (counter tenor), Sebastian Hennig (soprano), Staas Swierstra (violin), William Christie (organ)
composed by Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz is the Rodney Dangerfield among the great masters; despite his enormous output and unchallenged status as the father of the German Baroque, Schütz is truly only popular in German-speaking lands and to a lesser degree in England. Although Schütz's music is recorded with frequency and by ensembles of the highest caliber, the Schütz ...

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Lully: Petits Motets more music like this

performed by Arlette Steyer (soprano), Elisabeth Matiffa (basse de viole), Eric Bellocq (theorbo), Francois Fauche (bass), Frederick Martin (violin), Gerard Lesne (haute contre vocal), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Marie Boyer (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully

This 1987 recording of Lully's Petits Motets, or small motets, was among those that established the sterling reputation of American-French conductor William Christie and his handpicked group, Les Arts Florissants. The historical-performance movement was well under way at the time, but it hadn't yet had definitive encounters with the forbidding ...

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Rameau: Zoroastre (2002) more music like this

performed by Anna-Maria Panzarella (dessus), Éric Martin Bonnet (bass), François Bazola (bass), Galle Mechaly (dessus), Les Arts Florissants, Mark Padmore (haute contre vocal), Matthieu Lecroart (bass), Nathan Berg (bass), Stéphanie Rédivat (dessus)
composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau

It is tempting to say William Christie and Les Arts Florissants perform Rameau's opera Zoroastre the exact way the composer imagined it. Indeed, there are many riches in this performance: impeccable singing, a magnificent chorus, and an orchestra that perfectly captures the opulent beauties and complexities of French Baroque. A late work, ...

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Luigi Boccherini: Quatuor pour deux clavecins; Fandango more music like this

performed by Christophe Rousset (clavecin), William Christie (clavecin)
composed by Luigi Boccherini

If Luigi Boccherini's miniature string quartets fall into a rather specialized category, of interest to only the most devoted admirers of Rococo music, then the obscure keyboard arrangements of these works may be considered true curiosities for the connoisseur. Transcribed by unknown hands for two harpsichords, possibly around the same time ...

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D'India & Cesti: Madrigali / Lamnenti / Duetti more music like this

performed by Judith Nelson (vocals), Konrad Junghanel (theorbo), Rene Jacobs (vocals), Wieland Kuijken (basse de viole), William Christie (harpsichord)
composed by Antonio Cesti, Sigismondo d'India

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Lully: Atys (Highlights) more music like this

performed by Agnès Mellon (vocals), Bernard Deletre (vocals), Francoise Semellaz (vocals), Gilles Ragon (vocals), Guillemette Laurens (vocals), Guy de Mey (vocals), Isabelle Desrochers (vocals), Jacques Bona (vocals), Jean-Francois Gardeil (vocals)
composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully

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Charpentier:La Descente D'Orphée Aus Enfers H.488 more music like this

performed by Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Fernando Bernhardi (bass), Fernando Bernhardi (baritone), Francois Piolino (tenor), Isabel Serrano (violin), Jean-Francois Gardeil (bass), Kaori Uemura (bass viol), Katalin Károlyi (alto)
composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

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Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres (1997) more music like this

performed by Les Arts Florissants, Patricia Petibon (soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano), William Christie (harpsichord), William Christie (conductor)
composed by François Couperin

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Garlo Gesualdo: Madrigaux more music like this

performed by Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Eric Bellocq (theorbo), Erin Headley (lyrone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
composed by Carlo Gesualdo

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Indoubliable Alfred Deller: A Portrait more music like this

performed by Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Consort of Six, David Munrow (shawm), Desmond Dupre (bass viol), Jane Ryan (bass viol), Richard Lee (recorder), Robert Elliott (organ), Robert Elliott (harpsichord), Robert Spencer (bandora)
composed by Anonymous, Daniel Purcell, Francis Pilkington, Henry Purcell, Jeremiah Clarke, John Bartlet, John Blow, John Dowland, John Eccles, Pelham Humfrey, Philip Rosseter, Thomas Campion, William Croft

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Campra: Idoménée (1999) more music like this

performed by Anne Mopin (soprano), Anne Pichard (soprano), Bernard Deletre (bass), Jean-Claude Sarragosse (bass), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Jerome Correas (baritone), Les Arts Florissants, Maray Saint-Palais (soprano), Marie Boyer (soprano)
composed by André Campra

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Desmarest: Grands Motets Lorrains (2000) more music like this

performed by Les Arts Florissants (choir, chorus), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
composed by Henry Desmarest

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