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Download, Lully (composer)
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Special offer. Lully, Charpentier & Desmarets: Passion
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble Les Surprises, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Words are Gens’s secret weapon. She brings out their meanings and sonic qualities like no other singer: spiked rhythms register her vitriol, towering anger splits open her vowels on top notes... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Chance’s tone is pellucid; notes fall round and clear as water drops...a recording in which Chance stakes serious claim to the title of his generation’s most exciting British countertenor. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Young Talent of the Year
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Lully: Atys
Reinoud Van Mechelen (Atys), Marie Lys (Sangaride/Flore), Ambroisine Bré (Cybèle), Philippe Estèphe (Célénus)
Les Talens Lyriques, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
The instrumentalists of Les Talens Lyriques brilliantly tease out the drama...but the ultimate glory is Rousset ’s playing of the harpsichord, to which he gives its own affective voice – rejoicing... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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His technical strengths emerge clearly in the way in which he negotiates the switchback turns of Vivaldi’s ‘Cada pur sul capo’ (from Artabano), the cascading melodies of Porpora’s ‘Nocchier,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Lully: Persée 1770
Mathias Vidal, Hélène Guilmette, Katherine Watson, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean Teitgen, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Marie Lenormand, Cyrille Dubois, Marie Kalinine, Thomas Dolié, Zachary Wilder
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet’s musical direction is admirably fluent. The orchestral playing and choral singing are magnificent throughout in a suitably resonant recording…Katherine Watson as Mérope stands... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Record Review, 25th March 2017, Recording of the Week
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New. La Guitare de Louis Xiv
Léa Masson, Lili Aymonino, Marco Angioloni, Louise Ayrton, Arnaud Condé, Natacha Gauthier, Julien Gourdin
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Special offer. Lully: Alceste
RecommendedJudith Van Wanroij, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques
Outstanding among the stylish cast are Judith Van Wanroij as the eponymous heroine, her delivery pliant and lucid, her satin tones persuasively seductive…Rousset draws alert and vital playing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Opera Choice
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Record Review, 20th January 2018, Recording of the Week
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Opera, March 2018, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Opera Recording
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Solo Recital Recording
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Special offer. Lully: Thésée
Mathias Vidal (Thésée). Karine Deshayes (Médée), Deborah Cachet (Aeglé), Marie Lys (Cléone/Cérès), Bénédicte Tauran, (La Grande Prêtresse de Minerve), Thaïs Raï-Westphal (Dorine/Venus), Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Rousset and his performers are lithe and imaginative. A well-chosen cast make much of Lully's expressive recitative. — More…
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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