Natalie Dessay: Baroque

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BACH / HANDEL / RAMEAU / MONTEVERDI
Natalie Dessay: Baroque
Natalie Dessay (soprano) / Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haim

[ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD/DVD ]

Release Date: Monday 16 November 2015

2CD + 1DVD

Baroque repertoire has always played a part in Natalie Dessay's stellar career. She first started singing it in 1999, after meeting Emmanuelle Haïm during rehearsals for Alcina at the Opera de Paris - Palais Garnier. Erato presents this double CD containing a full portrait of Natalie Dessay singing baroque music, including sacred repertoire (Bach cantatas, Magnificat, Handel: Dixit Dominus) and opera (Handel: Giulio Cesare or Rameau: Les Indes Galantes) - mainly under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm who she formed a baroque 'double-act' with for over a decade.

As Emmanuelle Haïm writes in the booklet: "We performed Bach, Monteverdi, Handel and Rameau on stage as well as on recordings. Natalie is a wonderful interpreter of this music, as she always is, graceful and with a unique inspiration".

The bonus DVD is an 'unexpected scene' filmed by Esti at Palais Garnier in 2008. Natalie Dessay sings and dances the aria of Alcina "credete al mio dolor" with French star ballerina Marie Agnès Gillot, who also choreographed it. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts the Concert d'Astrée.

Tracks:

Bach, J S:
Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'
Suscepit Israel, BWV1082

Handel:
Delirio amoroso: Per te lasciai la luce
Ahi, nelle sorti umane (Cantata), HWV 179
Mi palpita il cor - cantata HWV132: Ho tanti affanni in petto
Dixit Dominus: De Torrente in via bibet
Alcina - Tornami a vagheggiar (Act I Scene 15, 1736 revival)
(Les arts Florissants, William Christie)
Credete al mio dolore (from Alcina)
(Les arts Florissants, William Christie)
Ama, sospira (from Alcina)
(Les arts Florissants, William Christie)
Fido specchio (from Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno)
Un pensiero nemico di pace (from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)
Qui l'augel da pianta in pianta (from Aci, Galatea e Poliremo)
V' adoro, pupille (from Giulio Cesare)
Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare)
Da tempeste il legno infranto (from Giulio Cesare)

Monteverdi:
Lamento della Ninfa (Book 8)

Rameau:
Rondeau - Forêts paisibles (from Les Indes Galantes)