Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Marie Leclair, Jean Philippe Rameau
Performer: Tempesta di Mare
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN0810
Release: 2016
Size: 1.28 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Leclair: Suite from Scylla et Glaucus, Op. 11
01. Ouverture
02. Prologue: Sarabande
03. Prologue: Air gracieux
04. Prologue: Symphonie pour la descente de Venus
05. Prologue: Gigue
06. Prologue: Passepied
07. Act I: Marche de bergers et de silvains
08. Act I: Air des silvains
09. Passacaille
10. Act III: Loure
11. Act IV: Air de demons I
12. Act IV: Air de demons II
13. Act IV: Air de demons III
14. Air II
15. Act V: Symphonie pour exprimer l’aboiement des monstres
Charpentier: Suite from Le malade imaginaire, H. 495
16. Ouverture
17. Les Tapissiers
18. Air pour les tapissiers II
19. Les Chirurgiens et apothicaires
20. Air des reverences
21. Entree des Mores
22. Ritournelle
23. Air des Mores I
24. Air des Mores II
25. La Fantaisie
Rameau: Les fêtes de Polymnie, RCT 39
26. Ouverture
27. Gigue
28. Ballet figure: Gracieusement et un peu gai
29. Descente d’Oriade et d’Argelie
30. Air grave et majestueux
31. Air vif II
32. Gavotte en rondeau I
33. Menuets
34. Air majestueux sans lenteur
35. Chaconne
36. Air gracieux en rondeau
37. [Prelude]: Gai, sans se presser
38. Mouvement vif de chaconne
This programme completes the Comédie et Tragédie project with Tempesta di Mare, and consists of suites made up of orchestral excerpts from three dramatic works of the French stage, spanning seventy-three years, all highlighting the importance of dance as a part of drama.
The comédie-ballet was the brainchild of the French comedic actor, singer, dancer, and playwright Molière. After ten years of collaborating with Lully, a Suite from whose Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme features in Volume 1, he turned to Charpentier. The outcome was Le Malade imaginaire whose fourth performance would prove Molière’s last, as he died on stage.
Scylla et Glaucus is the only stage work by Jean-Marie Leclair, the foremost violinist of his generation and a composer whose late opera shows the clarity of his orchestration and places its focal point on the strings, as one would expect.
Les Fêtes de Polymnie is contemporary with Leclair’s opera but more forward looking in its approach, and famous for the ingenuity of Rameau’s colourful orchestration, particularly obvious in the overture.