Performer: Luanda Siqueira, Jean-François Lombard, Jérôme Billy, Virgile Ancely
Orchestra: Les Paladins
Conductor: Jérôme Correas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Glossa
Release: 2016
Size: 1.41 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Lully: La pastorale comique, LWV 33
01. Déesse des appas … O toi, qui peux rendre agréable
02. Ah, qu’il est beau… Qu’il est joli
03. Lully: La princesse d’Élide, LWV 22 – La princesse d’Elide: Quand l’amour à nos yeux9
Lully: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41
04. La polygamie est un cas pendable
05. Piglialo sù
Lully: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
06. Sé que me muero de amor
07. Ay qué locura
08. Lully: Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42 – Quand je plaisais à tes yeux
09. Charpentier, M-A: Le Sicilien, LWV 34 – Le sicilien: Ouverture
10. Charpentier, M-A: Le mariage forcé, LWV 20 – La, la, la, bonjour
Lully: Psyché
11. Deh, piangete al pianto mio
12. Le dieu qui nous engage
Lully: Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42
13. Menuet
14. Vous chantez sous ces feuillages
15. Ah! Que sur notre coeur
16. Dormez, beaux yeux
Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43
17.À moi, Monsieur
18.Quels spectacles charmants
With ‘Molière à l’opéra’ Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins bring their much-admired combination of Baroque stylishness and varied vocal techniques to comédies-ballets composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marc-Antoine Charpentier during the reign of Louis XIV.
The musical and theatrical partnership involving Lully and Molière – they were dubbed ‘les deux Baptiste’ – was one of the most invigorating ever entered into, marrying melody, words, acting and a shared hunger for fame. The collaboration spanned ten works over a decade from 1661. Although Molière never provided the words for a Lully opera, the great dramatist clearly inspired the composer in his later tragédies lyriques, a view upheld by the essayist for this recording, Elisabeth Giuliani.
As well as presenting scenes from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, this new Glossa recording draws on the humorous end of the Molière/Lully partnership in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac as well as more tragic airs from ‘Psyché’, by way of the trio grotesque from Charpentier’s score for Le Mariage forcé. Luanda Siqueira, Jean-François Lombard, Jérôme Billy and Virgile Ancely are the versatile vocal quartet brought together by Jerôme Correas, alive to the daunting and frequently crazy characterisations demanded by Lully and Molière.