Véronique Gens - Passion
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LULLY / CHARPENTIER / DESMARETS
Véronique Gens - Passion
Véronique Gens; Ensemble Les Surprises; Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 August 2021
This programme marks the eagerly awaited return of Véronique Gens to Baroque music and Lully, in which she made a name for herself at the start of her career. It presents airs from Atys, Persée, Alceste, Proserpine, Le Triomphe de l'Amour and other works by Louis XIV's famous composer, but also several by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Médée), Henry Desmarets and Pascal Collasse. Whether well known, rare or in some cases even unpublished, all of them present roles for powerful women whose love is unrequited: dark passions, bitter laments, jealousy, vengeance, the type of dramatic characters that Véronique Gens embodies with all the charisma that has made her reputation. This recording is also the result of an encounter with the youthful ensemble Les Surprises, founded and directed by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas. Together they conceived this programme, which mingles airs, dances and choruses, in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
"Words are Gens's secret weapon. She brings out their meanings and sonic qualities like no other singer: spiked rhythms register her vitriol, towering anger splits open her vowels on top notes and despair oozes from her whispered sibilants…For opulence and originality, this recording sets a new benchmark in Gens's discography." BBC Music
"Gens is in thrilling voice. She has the knack - harder, surely, in miscellaneous pieces than in a complete opera - of instantly getting to the heart of a character…Warmly recommended." Gramophone Award Finalist 2022
Tracks:
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Amadis, LWV 63 : Air "Toi qui dans ce tombeau"
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Amadis, LWV 63 : Prélude
Pascal Collasse - Achille et Polyxène : Air "Calme tes déplaisirs"
Pascal Collasse - Thétis et Pélée : Tempête
Henry Desmarets - Circée : Air "Désirs, transports"
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Proserpine, LWV 58 : Deuxième air
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69 : Entrée des Bretons, passepied
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Proserpine, LWV 58 : Air et chœur "O malheureuse mère"
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Proserpine, LWV 58 : Air et chœur "Que tout se ressente de la fureur que je sens"
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Atys, LWV 53 : Air "Espoir si cher et si doux"
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Ballet de la naissance de Vénus, LWV 27 : Sarabande dieu des Enfers
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43 : Canaries
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Armide, LWV 71 : Air "Enfin, il reste en ma puissance"
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Persée, LWV 60 : Ouverture
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59 : Air de la nuit "Voici le favorable temps"
Henry Desmarets - La Diane de Fontainebleau : Chœur du sommeil
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Alceste, LWV 50 : Pompe funèbre
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Alceste, LWV 50 : Air et chœur "La mort, la mort barbare"
Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Médée, H.491 : Air "Quel prix de mon amour"
Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Médée, H.491 : Air et chœur "Noires filles du Styx"
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59 : Air pour l'entrée de Borée et des quatre vents
