Le Poème Harmonique
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This is one of the best programmes that I have encountered in recent years, both in concept and execution, and it begins with an icon of early music, Allegri’s Miserere…The singers of Le Poème... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Special offer. Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble)
Vincent Dumestre
The performance by Le Poème harmonique is exceptional. It is lively, bright, and with an excellent sense of intonation…the voices are also fine, with good diction and excellent sense of pitch. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Cavalli: l'Egisto
Marc Mauillon (Egisto), Ambroisine Bré (Climene), Zachary Wilder (Lidio), Sophie Junker (Clori), Romain Bockler (Hipparco)
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
This beguiling early opera by Francesco Cavalli is given an equally beguiling performance in this premiere recording made in the opera theatre at the Palace of Versailles...Dumestre provides... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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The performance by Le Poème Harmonique orchestra is very much in keeping with the ambience of the court. They are in tune, have good phrasing, and the sound is clear. Conductor Vincent Dumestre... — More…
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entirely up to the standard of excellence that one has come to expect from the Chateau de Versailles series. The orchestra of the Poème Harmonique is powerful yet discrete when needed…the voices... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Testamento. Vespro della Madonna 1643
Perrine Devillers (soloist), Eva Zaïcik (soloist), Paco Garcia (soloist), Cyril Auvity (soloist), Romain Bockler (soloist), Viktor Shapovalov (soloist)
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
the quality of the composer’s late Venetian-period sacred works shines throughout this opulent recording made in the chapel at Versailles. — More…
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The performance by La poème harmonique is excellent. The instrumental ensemble is tightly controlled by conductor Vincent Dumestre, and the individual styles of each of the pieces emerges with... — More…
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Zaïcik is the foremost beneficiary of the programme. Her clear mezzo-soprano voice, with its tonal purity, tightly controlled vibrato and fluent virtuosity serve Vivaldi’s motets Invicti Bellate... — More…
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Weird but distinctly wonderful, this programme exploring the connections between the emerging early music and cabaret scenes in early twentieth-century Paris finds d'Oustrac not so much chewing... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Les Grandes Eaux de Versailles: Music of the Royal Festivities
Collegium 1704, Galilei Consort, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Nouveaux Caractères, Stradivaria, The King's Consort, Vaclav Luks, Robert King, Benjamin Chénier, Vincent Dumestre, Sébastien d'Hérin, Gaétan Jarry, Daniel Cuiller
