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Special offer. Leclair: Scylla & Glaucus
Il Giardino d'Amore, Stefan Plewniak
Il Giardino d’Amore are a Polish outfit, who sing and play to the manner born...The cast is all French-speaking. Mathias Vidal makes an ardent Glaucus, thrilling in the roulades of ‘Chantez,...
Special offer. Leclair: Scylla & Glaucus
Il Giardino d'Amore, Stefan Plewniak
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Il Giardino d’Amore are a Polish outfit, who sing and play to the manner born...The cast is all French-speaking. Mathias Vidal makes an ardent Glaucus, thrilling in the roulades of ‘Chantez,...
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What if the tour de force of French opera in the Age of Enlightenment was Scylla et Glaucus? At the age of 50, the famous violinist Leclair decided to write his first operatic piece, investing irrepressible energy in it. The drama is unrelenting: the nymph Scylla spurns the advances of the Demigod Glaucus, who seeks out the sorceress Circe to cast a spell on her; Circe is in love with Glaucus, drives Scylla to madness and turns her into a deadly rock... An infernal scene, an ocean storm and final cataclysm are employed to give striking relief to this trio of unappeased love, the effusions of irresistible beauty. The conductor and violinist Stefan Plewniak conducts a glorious stage of soloists in the eddies of vengeance!
Contents and tracklist
- Stefan Plewniak, Il Giardino d'Amore, Victor Sicard, Cécile Achille, Lili Aymonino
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Prologue Scene 1: Reine de la Nature (Chœur des peuples d'Amathonte, le Chef des peuples)
Track length1:47
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Prologue Scene 1: Quel bruit soudain (le Chef des peuples)
Track length0:57
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Prologue Scene 2: Redoutable Vénus (le Chef des peuples, Propétides)
Track length0:41
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Prologue Scenes 2 & 3: Symphonie pour la descente de Vénus
Track length2:41
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Prologue Scene 3: Pour vous dont je reçois (Vénus, le Chœur des peuples)
Track length1:01
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Prologue Scene 3: Des nations il triomphe (le Chef des peuples)
Track length1:11
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Prologue Scene 3: Que, digne fils (Vénus, l'Amour, le Chef des peuples)
Track length0:38
- Stefan Plewniak, Il Giardino d'Amore, Victor Sicard, Cécile Achille, Mathias Vidal, Chiara Skerath, Lili Aymonino
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act I Scene 3: Aimez, Nymphe charmante (Chœur de Bergers et de Sylvains)
Track length2:10
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act I Scene 3: Loin de nos retraites (une Bergère, Chœur de Bergers)
Track length0:59
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act I Scenes 3 & 4: Perdez une vaine espérance (Scylla, Témire)
Track length0:58
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act I Scene 5: Croirai–je que les chants (Glaucus, Scylla)
Track length1:39
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act I Scene 5: Quand je ne vous vois pas (Glaucus, Scylla)
Track length0:58
- Stefan Plewniak, Il Giardino d'Amore, Victor Sicard, Florie Valiquette, Mathias Vidal, Cécile Achille
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act II Scene 1: Oui, je dois craindre encore (Circé, Dorine)
Track length2:10
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act II Scene 1: Air. Mon cœur est fait pour s'enflammer (Circé)
Track length0:54
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act II Scene 3: Passacaille. Amants dont le prix (Coryphées, Chœur)
Track length4:15
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act II Scene 4: Prélude. Quelle secrète puissance (Licas, Glaucus)
Track length0:56
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act II Scene 5: Courons à la vengeance (Circé, Ministres de Circé)
Track length1:54
- Stefan Plewniak, Il Giardino d'Amore, Florie Valiquette, Chiara Skerath, Lili Aymonino, Mathias Vidal
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act III Scene 2: Duo. Que le tendre amour nous engage (Scylla, Glaucus)
Track length1:33
- Stefan Plewniak, Il Giardino d'Amore, Florie Valiquette, Chiara Skerath, Victor Sicard, Mathias Vidal, Cécile Achille
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act IV Scene 1: Glaucus, par tout l'amour (Circé, Glaucus)
Track length1:17
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act IV Scene 1: Trompé par vos enchantements (Circé, Glaucus)
Track length3:57
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act IV Scene 2: Où courez–vous Glaucus ? (Scylla, Circé, Glaucus)
Track length4:48
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act IV Scene 3: Ah ! Que la vengeance a de charmes (Circé, Dorine)
Track length0:49
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act IV Scenes 3 & 4: Mais déjà de ses voiles sombres (Circé)
Track length1:43
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act IV Scene 5: Que Circé nous inspire (Chœur des Divinités Infernales)
Track length0:31
- Stefan Plewniak, Il Giardino d'Amore, Mathias Vidal, Chiara Skerath, Lili Aymonino, Florie Valiquette
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act V Scene 2: Viens Amour, quitte Cythère (une Sicilienne, Chœur)
Track length2:54
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act V Scene 2: Troisième air (majeur), Quatrième air (mineur)
Track length1:27
Scylla & Glaucus, Op. 11, Act V Scene 2: C'est au bord de cette fontaine (Glaucus, Scylla)
Track length5:28
Awards and reviews
December 2022
Il Giardino d’Amore are a Polish outfit, who sing and play to the manner born...The cast is all French-speaking. Mathias Vidal makes an ardent Glaucus, thrilling in the roulades of ‘Chantez, chantez l’Amour’ towards the end.
June 2023
Vocally the performance, under the music director Stefan Plewniak, is magnificent...Plewniak’s direction of his Il Giardino d’Amore projects a fervent belief in the work, obtaining playing that is by turn furiously dramatic and delightfully expressive (the Minuet with musette in Act 1 is an evocative moment of pure magic)...this is a splendidly sung version of one of the few great French 18th-century operas not by Rameau.
