Portraits de la folie
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CAMPRA / DESTOUCHES / MARAIS / HEINICHEN / HANDEL / etc
Portraits de la folie
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) / Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 25 September 2020
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"D'Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and bustling invention, the band at times outstrips Folly herself. The enjoyment of a refined French enunciation is reason enough to buy this disc. D'Oustrac relishes her words, and squeezes gestures from them" BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice Sept 2020
"With her wide range of colour and her care for the sound and sense of words, the French mezzo makes each character vividly distinct. She is also a risk-taker, unafraid of a harsh or whining tone where apt, yet never resorting to caricature...The concept is imaginative, the repertoire (Purcell apart) hardly familiar, and the performances both probing and enlivening. Emphatically recommended." Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2020
Tracks:
Keiser: Der lächerliche Printz Jodelet: Sinfonia
Campra: Accourrez, hâtez vous (from Les fêtes vénitiennes)
Destouches, A: Ne cesse point de m'enflammer (from Sémélé)
Marais, M: Descendez cher amant (from Sémélé)
Destouches, A: Aussitôt le bruit du tonnerre...Est-il un destin plus heureux (from Sémélé)
Heinichen: Concerto in G Major, S. 214
Purcell: From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370
Eccles, J: Ground in F major
Purcell: From Rosy Bow'rs (from Don Quixote)
Handel: Ah! Crudel, nel pianto mio, HWV 78
Marais, M: Caprice in E minor
Destouches, A: Abandonnons le soin du monde (from Le Carnaval et la Folie)
Rebel, J-F: Air pour l'Amour (from Les Élémens)
Destouches, A: Gavotte en rondeau...Souffrez que l'Amour vous lie (from Le Carnaval et la Folie)
