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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... |
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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... |
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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. |
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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) |
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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... |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Atys (Complete opera recorded in 1987) Guy de Mey, Guillemette Laurens, Agnes Mellon / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Book - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "The stateliest of Lully's operas, Atys is given an exceptionally handsome performance here. When it first appeared in 1987 this was a landmark recording. It remains a performance to treasure." BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 |
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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... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - Live in Salzburg Festpiele (Aug. 2018) Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Limited edition triple CD and Blu-Ray edition. "Some of the most wonderful music in the world" is how William Christie describes Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, noting in particular the opera's overriding humanism and interest in questions of... |
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DELALANDE
Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] |
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Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Si vous vouliez un jour… [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Jan/2019 ] With this second volume of airs sérieux and airs à boire, William Christie continues his exploration of this vast repertory of song settings of lyric and pastoral poetry, here focussing on such masters of the genre as Boesset, Moulinié, Lambert and... |
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CHARPENTIER
Acteon (complete opera) Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] Actéon appears on the surface as a perfect demonstration of the classic artifices of the tragédie en musique as created by Lully. But here everything has been taken to an extreme point of miniaturisation - the plot, the number of performers, the... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigali & altri canti [Ballo delle Ingrate, Selva Morale, Combattimento di Tancrede] Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, director [ Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "Monteverdi's reputation received a boost with the arrival in 1980 of the first of four refreshingly raw recordings by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie of madrigals, dramatic ballets and sacred music." BBC Music |
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MONTEVERDI
Selva morale Les Arts Florissants. William Christie, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] "This is gorgeous music, flawlessly served, and this disc is an important part of any serious collector's library." - American Record Guide |
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Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Charpentier: Deux Oratorios [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Jun/2012 ] |
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Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Handel:concerti Grossi Op.6 [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2003 ] |
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SIR JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: The Protecting Veil Matthew Barley (cello), Sukhvinder 'Pinky' Singh (tabla), Olwyn Fouéré, Julie Christie (speakers), Sinfonietta Rīga [ Signum / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] "I suspect those who come across the work for the first time via this latest release, will not find another performance out there which would give them quite the same feeling of intensity and spiritual uplift." MusicWeb |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera) BLU-RAY Opera Comique / Malena Ernman / Christopher Maltman / Judith van Wanroij / Les Arts Florrisants / William Christie (cond) [ Fra Musica Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Brilliant stage direction by Deborah Warner combines various time spaces in the 17th century with the present day, enhanced by the subtle lighting schemes of Jean Kalman. |
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JEAN CASSANEA de MONDONVILLE
Mondonville: Titon et l'Aurore (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Opéra Comique / Reinoud van Mechelen, Gwendoline Blondeel, Emmanuelle de Negri, Marc Mauillon / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Naxos FRA Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Recorded at the Opéra Comique, Paris, France, 18-19 January 2021 |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 2008) Opéra Comique / Malena Ernman, Christopher Maltman, Judith van Wanroij, Hilary Summers / Les Arts Florissants William Christie [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 21/Jan/2022 ] Recorded at the Opéra Comique, Paris, France, 7 and 9 December 2008 |