Rigel
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Rigel: The departure from Egypt, etc.
Isabelle Poulenard (soprano), Philippe Do (tenor) & Alain Buet (baritone)
Les Folies Françoises & Les pages & les Chantres du centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Olivier Schneebeli
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A driving Allegro assai that opens the C minor work (No 4) of 1767 proclaims a Sturm und Drang agitation and unease that the group portrays to the hilt. Militant horns, plaintive oboes and... —
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Rigel: Le Souffle de La Revolution (rigel and the Winds of Revolution)
Arion Orchestre Baroque, Magali Simard-Galdes (soprano), Nicholas Scott (tenor), Melisande McNabney (fortepiano), Mathieu Lussier
it is noticeable how many times in his music one is reminded of (later) Mozartian moments, and worth noting that when Gluck quit the Parisian opera scene in 1778 he recommended Rigel as his... —
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at once stimulating and finally somewhat bitty…Chauvin’s Haydn has rather more bite, if hardly the largeness or boldness of style demonstrated by (say) Bruno Weil…two elaborate soprano arias... —
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