Composer: Jean Philippe Rameau
Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Ex Cathedra
Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67447
Release: 2004
Size: 309 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Les Indes Galantes
01. Fra le pupille
02. Rigaudon I – Rigaudon II – Fuyez, vents orageux!
03. Tambourin I – Tambourin II – Partez!
04. Régnez, Amour
05. Tempête. La nuit couvre les cieux!
Les Paladins
06. C’est trop soupirer
Platée
07. Soleil, fuis de ces lieux!
Zoroastre
08. Règne Amour
Dardanus
09. Marche pour les différentes nations – Par tes bienfaits
10. Air gracieux – L’Amour, le seul Amour
11. Menuet en rondeau – Si l’Amour coûte des soupirs
12. Tambourin I – Tambourin II
Pygmalion
13. Du pouvoir de l’Amour
Hippolyte et Aricie
14. Rossignols amoureux
Les Indes Galantes
15. Musettes, résonnez – Menuet en rondeau
Platée
16. Formons les plus brillants concerts
17. Aux langueurs d’Apollon
18. Honneur à la Folie – Aimables jeux
19. Honneur à la Folie – Je jeux finir – Hymen
Carolyn Sampson, a soprano with a reputation for performances of dazzling virtuosity and musicality, presents arias from seven operas by Rameau in her first solo recording. She is joined by Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore, with whom she began her singing career whilst at Birmingham University.
Rameau’s operas so dominated the stage of the Paris Opéra in the mid-1700s that their productions were officially ‘rationed’ so as not to depress other composers. By turns tender, voluptuous, nostalgic, teasing, and even outrageously satirical, these arias are ravishingly beautiful.