Desmarest
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Lully, Charpentier & Desmarets: Passion
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble Les Surprises, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Words are Gens’s secret weapon. She brings out their meanings and sonic qualities like no other singer: spiked rhythms register her vitriol, towering anger splits open her vowels on top notes... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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When it comes to organ colour you won't get anything more dazzling than this. Frédéric Desenclos has chosen a glorious collection of pieces...[The Widor] sounds, like everything else here,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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Throughout the album, her care for words is exemplary. An additional pleasure is a handful of orchestral pieces, none more charming than the Menuet from Rameau's Acanthe et Céphise. —
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Solo Recital Recording
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In Excelsis Deo
Barcelona 1702 - Versailles 1709
Le Concert des Nations & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
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Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum
Jehanne Amzal, Eugenie Lefebvre, Clement Debieuvre, Francois-Olivier Jean, Francois Joron, Jean-Christophe Laniece, David Witczak, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas
There is fluency and panache in the sequence of concise and flowing movements, and interspersed amid the grandeur accomplished soloists emerge from the choir for moments of intimacy. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Desmarest: La Diane de Fontainebleau
Raphaëlle Kennedy, Marie-Louise Duthoit, La Simphonie Du Marais, Françoise Masset, Marie-Noëlle Maerten, Arnaud Marzoratti, Patrick Aubailly, Christophe Laporte, Hugo Reyne
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Special offer. Desmarest: Circe
Véronique Gens (Circé), Caroline Mutel (Astérie), Cécile Achille (Eolie), Romain Bockler (Phaebetor), Mathias Vidal (Ulysse), Nicolas Courjal (Elphénor), Sébastien d'Hérin, Les Nouveaux Caractères
Gens's dark hues, femme fatale swagger and willingness to take risks all hit their mark, musically and dramatically; Cécile Achille’s charming transparency and bright execution as Éolie are... —
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Desmarest - Grands Motets Vol. II
(un scandale à la musique du Roi)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Desmarest never quite made it as a courtier at Versailles, but his music is spectacular…A highly persuasive performance. —
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Les Grandes Eaux Musicales 2007
All tracks recorded between 2000 and 2006
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
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