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Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

Robert Tear (Hippolyte), Angela Hickey (Aricie), Janet Baker (Phèdre), Rae Woodland (Diane), John Shirley-Quirk (Thésée), Gerald English (Tisiphone), Nigel Rogers (Mercure), Jill Gomez (Une Prêtresse)

English Chamber Orchestra, Saint Anthony Singers

Lewis’s realization now seems historical in the old-fashioned sense…So is the set still worth hearing? Most certainly, yes! At its heart are a brace of performances time has not wearied, nor... — Opera, September 2019 More…

Release Date: 12th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4829394
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Work length2:25:29

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Thurston Dart (continuo), Patricia Blans (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Roger Stahlman (bass), John Noble (baritone), Angela Hickey (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Christopher Keyte (bass), Sylvia Rhys-Thomas (soprano), Edgar Fleet (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Keith Erwen (tenor), Robin Stapleton (bass), Rae Woodland (soprano), John Whitworth (alto), Jill Gomez (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Nigel Rogers (tenor)
English Chamber Orchestra, The St. Anthony Singers
Anthony Lewis

Overture

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"Temple sacré, séjour tranquille"

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"Princesse, quels apprêts me frappent"

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Marche..."Dans ce paisible séjour"

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"Princesse, ce grand jour par des noeuds éternels"

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Prélude..."Ne vous alarmez pas d'un projet téméraire"

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Prélude.."Quoi! La terre et le ciel contre moi"

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Prélude..."Mes yeux commencent d'entrevoir"

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"Laisse-moi respirer, implacable Furie!"

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Prélude..Inexorable Roi de L'Empire infernal!"

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"Qu'à servir mon courroux tout l'enfer se prépare!"

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"Dieux! que d'infortunés gémissent"

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"Ah! qu'on daigne du moins...Puisque Pluton"

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Prélude...Neptune vous demande grâce"

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Prélude.."Cruelle mère des amours"

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"Eh bien! viendra-t-il en ces lieux"

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Marche..."Que ce rivage retentisse"

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"Quels biens! Je frémis quand j'y pense"

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Prélude..."Ah! faut-il, en un jour"

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"C'en est donc fait, cruel, rien n'arrête vos pas"

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"Faisons partout voler nos traits!"

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"Quelle plainte en ces lieux m'appelle?"

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"Grands Dieux! de quels remords je me sens dechiré!

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"Arrête!..Pour un fils quelle pitié vous presse?"

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"Où suis-je? De mes sens j'ai recouvré l'usage"

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"Descendez, brillante immortelle"

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"Peuples toujours soumis à mon obéissance"

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"Voi des Zephirs...Où suis-je transporté?"

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Marche..."Chantons sur la musette"

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"Bergers, vous allez voir combien"

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Chaconne

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"Rossignols amoureux, répondez à nos voix"

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Thanks to several Eloquence releases, the pioneering work of Anthony Lewis in the field of Baroque opera is now readily available: The Fairy Queen (482 7449) of Purcell, Handel’s Semele (482 5055) and a compilation albums of Handel arias (482 4759) were all critically acclaimed at the time of their original release in the 1950s and 60s, and they have gained a new and appreciative audience through the new Eloquence remasterings. Further Lewis reissues are forthcoming.

As director of an annual series of staged operas at the Barber Institute in the University of Birmingham, Lewis conveyed to first a local audience, and then a more international one with these Decca and Argo recordings, that Baroque opera should no longer be the preserve of scholars but contained as much lively and powerful drama as the works of Mozart and Puccini.

Rameau’s place in the pantheon of Baroque composers alongside Bach and Handel is now assured, but only thanks to the persuasive force and intensity of recordings such as Hippolyte et Aricie, which was made in Decca’s West Hampstead studios in July 1965, a few months after the Barber Institute staging. The plot describes Phaedra’s incestuous love for her son Hippolytus, his equally hopeless love for Aricia and much violent divine intervention and retribution.

Even the usually sober Grove dictionary praises it as ‘a powerful and committed performance’. In fact this Classical-themed tragedy never enjoyed the reputation of other stage works by Rameau during his lifetime, but it is now recognised (again, not least, thanks to Lewis’s efforts) as one of the peaks of the composer’s output.

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September 2019

Lewis’s realization now seems historical in the old-fashioned sense…So is the set still worth hearing? Most certainly, yes! At its heart are a brace of performances time has not wearied, nor custom staled…Time may have marched on, but Baker and Shirley-Quirk still provide imperative reasons for acquiring this reissue, in refurbished sound at a competitive price.

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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