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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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Charpentier: Orphée aux enfers
RecommendedReinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)
Vox Luminis, A Nocte Temporis, Lionel Meunier
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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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th January 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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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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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
2 CDs + DVD Video
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Offer, Charpentier: Messe de Minuit - in Nativatem Domini Canticum Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Correspondances
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Barricades
RecommendedJean Rondeau (harpsichord), Thomas Dunford (lute), Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano), Marc Mauillon (baritone), Myriam Rignol (viola da gamba)
Though still both around 30, Dunford and Rondeau are already steeped in this rich and subtle repertoire, and play it like they own it …Both also like to indulge in some slowish tempos, but Dunford’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Charpentier, M-A: La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers Robert Getchell (Orphée), Caroline Weynants (Eurydice), Caroline Dangin-Bardot (Oenone), Violaine Le Chenadec (Daphné), Caroline Arud (Aréthuse), Lucile Richardot (Proserpine), Stephen Collardelle (Ixion), Davy Cornillot (Tantale), Étienne Bazola (Apollon/Titye), Nicolas Brooymans (Pluton)
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In this unfailingly beautiful performance, Ensemble Correspondances reflects the relatively modest forces available to Charpentier…Robert Getchell is an appropriately sweet-voiced Orphée and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Opera Choice
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This disc has the feel of an Advent concert because it includes both liturgical music and Noels...The serpent quite rightly and very effectively supports the baritones from the Namur Chamber... — More…
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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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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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Charpentier: Messe à quatre choeurs & Carnets de voyage d'Italie Sebastien Dauce, Ensemble Correspondances
Daucé gives expressive shape to the music’s ebb and flow; tempos are beautifully judged, responding to the texts and their sacred context. The ensemble’s luminous vocal sound and instrumental... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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