Latest News: Classical, Christophe Rousset (conductor)
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Recording of the Week,
In The Shadows with Michael Spyres 1st March 2024The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.
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Recording of the Week,
Christophe Rousset conducts Spontini's La vestale 19th May 2023The first-ever period-instrument recording of Spontini's 1807 opera emphasises the score's debt to the French declamatory tradition, with Marina Rebeka on ravishing form in the title-role and Stanislas de Barbeyrac showing his true heroic colours as the Roman soldier Licinius.
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Interview,
Christophe Rousset on Les Talens Lyriques at 30 15th December 2022As his ensemble celebrates its thirtieth birthday, the conductor and harpsichordist talks about turning people onto Lully, venturing towards Wagner, and 'opening doors' for the next generation of young musicians and music-lovers in France...
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Interview,
Christophe Rousset on Lully and Gounod 14th November 2019The French harpsichordist and conductor talks to Katherine about recording Lully's 1677 opera Isis (out now on Aparté) and the original 1859 version of Gounod's Faust, released in September on Bru Zane.
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Recording of the Week,
Christophe Rousset conducts Étienne Méhul's rarely-heard opera, Uthal 24th February 2017Katherine enjoys a rare gem of an opera by an early Romantic French composer, with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques.
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Recording of the Week,
Lully’s Bellérophon 11th April 2011Christophe Rousset presides over a splendidly elegant account of Lully’s 1679 opera, with Cyril Auvity in the title-role, and Les Talens Lyriques on vigorous form.