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Rameau: Les Boréades
Sabine Devieilhe (Alphise), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Abaris), Benedikt Kristjánsson (Calisis), Thomas Dolié (Borée), Philippe Estèphe (Borilée), Tassis Christoyannis (Adamus/Apollon), Gwendoline Blondeel (Sémire/Nymphe/L'Amour/Polymnie); Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
In all respects, Vashegyi’s marvellous take on Les Boréades confirms how far Rameau’s art and ideas developed across his 30-year operatic career.
Rameau: Les Boréades
Sabine Devieilhe (Alphise), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Abaris), Benedikt Kristjánsson (Calisis), Thomas Dolié (Borée), Philippe Estèphe (Borilée), Tassis Christoyannis (Adamus/Apollon), Gwendoline Blondeel (Sémire/Nymphe/L'Amour/Polymnie); Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
In all respects, Vashegyi’s marvellous take on Les Boréades confirms how far Rameau’s art and ideas developed across his 30-year operatic career.
About
Started in 2014 as part of the anniversary of the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau with the recording of the Fêtes de Polymnie, the partnership between the Baroque Music Center of Versailles and the ensembles of Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir, ends with the recording of another opera by Rameau, Les Boréades, in which the talented Sabine Devieilhe and Reinoud Van Mechelen take part. The composer's final work, created posthumously at the end of the 20th century, Les Boréades represents one of the peaks of French lyric tragedy of the 17th and 18th centuries. Thanks to the work of musicologist Sylvie Bouissou, the CMBV refines the interpretation of the work by questioning the context and practices of the time, to make the score heard differently and offer a new vision, supported by the curiosity of György Vashegyi who has been supporting and applying the institution's research for ten years.
Contents and tracklist
- Gwendoline Blondeel (soprano), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Philippe Estèphe (baritone), Benedikt Kristjánsson (tenor)
- Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir
- György Vashegyi
- Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Benedikt Kristjánsson (tenor), Philippe Estèphe (baritone), Gwendoline Blondeel (soprano)
- Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir
- György Vashegyi
- Philippe Estèphe (baritone), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Gwendoline Blondeel (soprano)
- Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir
- György Vashegyi
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineNovember 2024Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
November 2024
In all respects, Vashegyi’s marvellous take on Les Boréades confirms how far Rameau’s art and ideas developed across his 30-year operatic career.
19th September 2024
The performance has a real sense of authority – this is the sixth Rameau stage work that Vashegyi has recorded (the previous five were released on Glossa) and it’s a dramatic world that he now inhabits with total conviction, as do his singers, led by Sabine Devieilhe as Abaris and Reinoud Van Mechelen as Alphise. Even French baroque sceptics might be converted.
13th September 2024
this latest addition to Gyorgy Vashegyi’s ongoing Rameau cycle is spectacularly vivid and bouncy...There’s so much to enjoy here, not least the album’s skilful recording, with soloists, choir and orchestra brilliantly interacting, each from their individual acoustical space.