RAMEAU Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Opera Arias
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Composer or Director: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Erato
Magazine Review Date: 02/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 80
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 934 149-2
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (Les) Indes galantes, Movement: Forêts paisibles |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Feuillages verts naissez |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Pigmalion, Movement: Ouverture |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) Paladins, Movement: Est-il beau? |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (Les Dieux, Movement: Contredanse |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) Indes galantes, Movement: Viens, hymen |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Naïs, Movement: Je ne sais quel ennui me presse |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Abaris (Les Boréades), Movement: Un horizon serein |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Abaris (Les Boréades), Movement: Contredanse en Rondeau (Act 1, scene 4) |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) Paladins, Movement: Pour voltiger dans le bocage |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Hippolyte et Aricie, Movement: Ritournelle (Act 3) |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Anacréon, Movement: Tendre amour |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Zoroastre, Movement: Ballet figure |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) Indes galantes, Movement: Scène finale des Incas |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Zaïs, Movement: Coulez mes pleurs |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Dardanus, Movement: Sommeil |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) Indes galantes, Movement: Vaste empire des mers |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Zoroastre, Movement: Air tendre en rondeau |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Castor et Pollux, Movement: Tristes apprêts, pâles flambeaux |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) fêtes d'Hébé (Les talents lyriques), Movement: Tambourin |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| Platée (Junon jalouse), Movement: Aux langueurs d'Apollon |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) Indes galantes, Movement: Chaconne |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
| (Les) Indes galantes, Movement: Régnez, plaisirs et jeux |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Les Ambassadeurs Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano |
Author: Richard Lawrence
Actually, it doesn’t really work – La Folie’s parody of an Italian aria in Platée is hardly a paradigm of madness, for instance – but it makes for an entertaining sequence. One result of treating these disparate numbers as an integrated whole is that some of the pieces practically trip over one another: an air from Les Indes galantes leads straight into the overture to Pygmalion, to be abruptly followed by an air from Les Paladins and a contredanse from Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour.
What comes across is the marvellous variety of Rameau’s invention, whether it be the maddeningly catchy ‘Air pour les Sauvages’ in Les Indes galantes or the achingly beautiful ‘Tristes apprêts’ from Castor et Pollux. Sabine Devieilhe gets everything right, with excellent support from Les Ambassadeurs. Texts are provided, but the anonymous translators don’t know their tambourins from their tambourines.
RAMEAU Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Opera Arias
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