Vincent Dumestre
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This is one of the best programmes that I have encountered in recent years, both in concept and execution, and it begins with an icon of early music, Allegri’s Miserere…The singers of Le Poème... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Special offer. Cavalli: l'Egisto
Marc Mauillon (Egisto), Ambroisine Bré (Climene), Zachary Wilder (Lidio), Sophie Junker (Clori), Romain Bockler (Hipparco)
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
This beguiling early opera by Francesco Cavalli is given an equally beguiling performance in this premiere recording made in the opera theatre at the Palace of Versailles...Dumestre provides... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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entirely up to the standard of excellence that one has come to expect from the Chateau de Versailles series. The orchestra of the Poème Harmonique is powerful yet discrete when needed…the voices... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Testamento. Vespro della Madonna 1643
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
the quality of the composer’s late Venetian-period sacred works shines throughout this opulent recording made in the chapel at Versailles. —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique Baroque Vocale
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Special offer. Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia
Tomás Král, Hugo Hymas, Charlotte La Thrope, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Vlad Crosman, Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
With added harp in the continuo and richly characterful woodwind, Dumestre leads one of the most luxuriant accounts on disc, full of felicitous detail and theatrical flair. British tenor Hugo... —
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Special offer. Les Grandes Eaux de Versailles: Music of the Royal Festivities
Collegium 1704, Galilei Consort, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Nouveaux Caractères, Stradivaria, The King's Consort, Vaclav Luks, Robert King, Benjamin Chénier, Vincent Dumestre, Sébastien d'Hérin, Gaétan Jarry, Daniel Cuiller
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Special offer. Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Eva Zaïcik (soloist), Cyril Auvity (soloist), Thibault de Damas (soloist), Zachary Wilder (soloist), Nicholas Scott (soloist), David Tricou (soloist), Geoffroy Buffière (soloist), Marc Mauillon (soloist), Claire Lefilliâtre (soloist), Serge Goubioud (soloist),...
The performance by Le Poème harmonique is exceptional. It is lively, bright, and with an excellent sense of intonation…the voices are also fine, with good diction and excellent sense of pitch. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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part of the delight of Spanish baroque music is hearing familiar song melodies and dance rhythms in fresh and inventive settings. The realizations and performances by La Poeme Harmonique are... —
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The music is attractive, and it’s nicely performed. —
