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James David Christie
Sweelinck:organ Works [ Naxos / CD ] |
JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK
Organ Works James David Christie (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "with appealing registrations, an almost ideal choice of programme, good notes and undistractingly natural recording, Naxos have produced a single-CD anthology of this most companionable of organ composer that merits general recommendation" -... |
CAMPRA
French Cantatas Jill Feldman (sop) Dominique Visse (counter-ten) Jean-Francois Gardeil (bar) / Les Arts Florissants. William Christie, dir [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Une Europe galante… 'I have attempted as well as I could to mix the delicacy of French music with the vivacity of Italian music,' André Campra wrote in the Preface to his first book of cantatas. The clear-sightedness of the composer from... |
MONDONVILLE
Piaces de clavecin avec voix ou violon Judith Nelson (soprano) Stanley Ritchie (violin) William Christie (cembalo) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] The artistic director of the 'Concert Spirituel' from 1752 to 1762, Mondonville was one of the most fashionable composers in Paris due to his 'grands motets'. But it was in the field of chamber music that he was a real innovator. In creating the... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 [recorded live in 2016] Katherine Watson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor) & André Morsch (baritone) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] "At first the approach seems almost too light-toned and ethereal, but soon the intimacy of these modest forces takes an ineluctable grip. Textures are clear, tempi brisk - the Sanctus positively skips." The Observer |
MICHEL RICHARD DE LALANDE
De Lalande: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These 'petites' compositions of sacred music for several soloists and a small instrumental ensemble are in a certain sense the pendants to the grands motets of Versailles: Lully's successor excelled in both forms. At the close of the 'Grand Siècle',... |
MICHEL RICHARD DE LALANDE
De LaLande: Te Deum / Super flumina Babilonis Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] To the glory of God (and the King). Called the "Latin Lully" (whose worthy successor he was for 43 years under Louis XIV and Louis XV), De Lalande took the "grand motet" practised at Versailles to the peak of its glory and its popularity. The Te Deum... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Music for the Queen Caroline Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] The wife of George II of England, a woman of great beauty and a defender of both science and the arts, Caroline of Ansbach was also a patron and close friend of Handel. The works recorded here were composed for the major royal ceremonies which marked... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These little motets are not isolated curiosities in French religious music of the period: small motets and elevations, a term that indicates their place in the liturgy of the Mass, by Dumont, Robert, Danielis are other examples of the genre.... |
LAMBERT / COUPERIN / de la BARRE / CHARPENTIER / D'AMBRUYS
Bien Que L'amour...Airs sérieux et à boire Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Les Arts Florissants / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] With this anthology of airs sérieux and airs à boire of the Grand Siècle, Les Arts Florissants launches a new series on harmonia mundi. We may listen to the tracks on this disc as contemporaries turned the pages of successful collections of songs... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: A Christmas oratorio (Un Oratorio de Noel) Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed some of the most important works of seventeenth-century French music on the subject of the Nativity and its tutelary figure, the Virgin Mary, from dramatic oratorios in Latin to secular cantatas in the vernacular.... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Médée Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Book - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Following the success of his biblical opera David et Jonathas, written for a Jesuit college, Louis-le-Grand, Charpentier produced Médée for the Royal Academy of Music, his one and only sublime example of the "tragédie lyrique" to reach the... |
CHARPENTIER
Oratorios: Caecilia, virgo et martyr; Filius prodigus; Magnificat Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Superb examples of Charpentier's individual qualities: an acute sense of the word and an unprecedented dramatic effectiveness. |
RAMEAU
Maître à Danser: - Daphnis et Aegle / La Naissance d'Osiris Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Les Arts Florrisants DVD / DVD - released 15/Jul/2015 ] Daphnis et Eglé and La Naissance d'Osiris - two unfamiliar titles - two works that have rarely seen the light of day. Setting them alongside Rameau's immense Tragedies Lyriques one might be tempted to dismiss them as flimsy entertainments but on... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] A hybrid work between oratorio, ode and serenata, L'Allegro . . . is undoubtedly one of Handel's most mysterious works, but also his most inspired! With their accustomed poetry, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants offer us the chance to... |
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Handel - Concerti Grossi Op.6 (Excerpts) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] The concerto grosso, invented in Italy by Stradella and Corelli, spread rapidly all over Europe. But Handel's creative innovations surpass the Italian model, and are outstanding for their richness of style and expressive power. |
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS, dir. William Christie
Le Jardin De Monsieur Rameau [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] Like a journey to the heart of the Age of Enlightenment, this programme explores the various paths followed by French opera of the period while also taking in the cantata and the canon: around selected excerpts from the masterpieces of the great... |
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RAMEAU & HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau [The Garden of Mr. Rameau] Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Les Arts Florissants Editions / CD/Book - released 20/Dec/2014 ] "Christie and his orchestra are as wonderful as ever...The singers have been very well coached and make a good ensemble...Monsieur Rameau's garden is a delight." (Gramophone) |
CHARPENTIER
Le Malade Imaginaire Les Arts Florissants /William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] For the first time in 317 years, Les Arts Florissants brought together in 1990 the complete score of 'Le Malade imaginaire' as it was originally conceived by Charpentier to accompany Molière's final comedy. And now, for the first time on CD, you can... |
GESUALDO
Madrigals Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Love, desire and death - these are the three themes that pervade the musical poetry of Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, which has become a byword for tortured emotion. These madrigals are the clearest depiction in his output of the torments of... |
