Surprising Royer: Pancrace Royer: Orchestral Suites

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Christophe Rousset is probably one of the best interpreters of this sort of style, and Les Talens Lyriques is a top-class ensemble. The rhythms are all geared towards display of the works, from... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024 More…

Release Date: 5th May 2023
Catalogue No: AP298
Label: Aparté
Length: 81 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2024

Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
Presto Editor's Choice

May 2023

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Royer, P: Le pouvoir de l'amour

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Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

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Prologue Scène 4: Air pour les jeux et les plaisirs

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Première entrée Scène 1: Ritournelle

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Première entrée Scène 7: Mouvement de passacaille

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Deuxième entrée Scène 1: Ritournelle

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Deuxième entrée Scène 2: Rondeau

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Deuxième entrée Scène 2: Chaconne

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Deuxième entrée Scène 7: Entrée pour les habitants du Pactole

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Deuxième entrée Scène 7: Premier et deuxième menuets

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Deuxième entrée Scène 7: Premier et deuxième tambourins

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Troisième entrée Scène 1: Ritournelle

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Troisième entrée Scène 2: Marche pour le sacrifice

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Troisième entrée Scène 4: Entrée pour les sauvages

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Troisième entrée Scène 4: Première et deuxième gigues

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Royer, P: La Zaïde

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Ouverture

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Prologue: Première et deuxième bourrées

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Acte I Scène 5: Entrée

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Acte I Scène 5: Rondeau pour les Abencérages

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Acte I Scène 5: Air

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Acte I Scène 5: Menuet

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Acte III Scène 1: Prélude, légèrement et coulé

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Acte III Scène 5: Air tendrement

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Acte III Scène 5: Air pour les Turcs, en rondeau

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Acte III Scène 5: Premier et deuxième menuets

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Acte III Scène 5: Premier et deuxième tambourins

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Royer, P: Almasis

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Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

Ouverture

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Scène 5: Marche, gaiement

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Scène 5: Air, mouvement de chaconne

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Scène 5: Premier et second tambourins

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Excerpt, Royer, P: Pyrrhus

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Acte III Scène 1: Ritournelle

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Acte III Scène 8: Premier air des démons

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Acte III Scène 8: Deuxième air

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Acte IV Scène 7: Deuxième air pour les nymphes

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Royer, P: La Zaïde

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Acte III Scène 5: Menuets

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Acte III Scène 5: Tambourins

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Surprises from Royer! And from Rousset! After two recordings devoted to the harpsichord pieces of Savoyard composer Pancrace Royer, Christophe Rousset - this time conducting - turns to the composer’s orchestral suites.

Taken from Royer’s operatic works - and (with the exception of a live version of Pyrrhus) never previously recorded - these choreographic pieces reveal a new facet of the composer.  The brilliance and virtuosity of his harpsichord compositions are well known; here we discover his gift for refinement and lyricism.

These dances show Royer’s singular sense of harmony and fine use of orchestral contrasts, as well as an almost whimsical rhetoric of the unexpected.

Some of his best known pieces, including the famous ‘March of the Scythians’ from Zaïde, are to be heard here in their orchestral form.

This recording will undoubtedly further the rediscovery of this iconoclastic composer, whose very personal style and innate sense of drama are given striking depth and relief here under the baton of Christophe Rousset.

Reviews

Jan/Feb 2024

Christophe Rousset is probably one of the best interpreters of this sort of style, and Les Talens Lyriques is a top-class ensemble. The rhythms are all geared towards display of the works, from light and fluid to slow and stately, and the textures are clear and bright. One cannot ask for a better performance of Royer’s music.

June 2023

Most of it has never been previously recorded. All of it sounds magical. Les Talens Lyriques really seal the deal, through their crisply luminous, lovingly shaped and expressed readings.

May 2023

Surprises do indeed abound on this colourful collection of suites from Pancrace Royer's operas, packed with startling harmonic twists and turns and inventive orchestration: Rousset (who recorded two albums of the composer's harpsichord works in the late 2000s) clearly adores this music and he's audibly having enormous fun here, particularly in the raucous tambourins and the grand ceremonial marches from Le pouvoir de l'amour and La Zaïde.

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