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Don’t expect high drama and showy vocals: Charpentier’s idiom is subtly understated, and the Latin texts…were intended to edify rather than entertain. Sebastien Daucé judges their tone sensitively... — More…
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Van Mechelen is a seductive Orpheus – small wonder that his limpid, pliant, expressive voice and eloquent diction enchants both his nymph-bride Eurydice (brought to life here by the dewy-voiced... — More…
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The recording features a crack team of soloists, who make an impeccable ensemble in both the sensual airs serieux and the vibrant, cheeky airs a boire. Equally excellent instrumentalists – single... — More…
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The four composers represented here show just how ingenious these songs could be, and exactly why they were implanted in early French operas and became a staple of the style…The most affecting... — More…
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Katherine Watson (soprano), Karine Deshayes (mezzo), Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
If the story is thin, the music stylishly performed by Le Concert Spirituel is often magnificent…If the orchestra, particularly the principal flautist and trumpeter, rather overshadow the soloists,... — More…
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Offer, Charpentier, M-A: Leçons de Ténèbres
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Arte dei Suonatori, Alexis Kossenko
Here's ample proof, if it were needed, of Charpentier's rank as the finest Baroque church music composer of his generation. — More…
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These performances by Arcangelo of the Litanies and Magnificat are unfailingly expert, with ornamentation gracefully integrated. The performances of the Leçons have a greater focus and intensity... — More…
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La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Conquest is one theme, confession another; the whole a breakneck A-Z of Baroque song from airs de cours to zarzuela. — More…
