Château de Versailles Spectacles
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Special offer. Mademoiselle Duval: Les Genies Ou Les Caracteres de l'Amour
Guilhem Worms (soloist), Florie Valiquette (soloist), Etienne de Bénazé (soloist), Matthieu Walendzik (soloist), Marie Perbost (soloist), Anna Reinhold (soloist), Cécile Achille (soloist), Paco Garcia (soloist), Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Camille Delaforge
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Special offer. Grétry: La caravane du Caire
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (Conductor), Le Ballet de l'Opéra Royal
Grétry’s music, under the assured hand of conductor Hervé Niquet, is rhythmic, melodic and instrumentally varied. A fine cast of singers beautifully shape their vocal lines, injecting a sense... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, DVD of the Month
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crisply articulated, upbeat and graceful readings that clearly honour both the music’s dance roots, its frothy fun (I love the birdsong whistle) and the programmatic element. —
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2 CDs + DVD Video
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Special offer. Rameau: Les paladins
Sandrine Piau (Argie), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Nerine), Mathias Vidal (Attis), Florian Sempey (Orcan), Frédéric Caton (Anselme), Philippe Talbot (Manto)
La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
Only the occasional mannerism detracts from the spontaneity of what is otherwise a splendid performance, excellently played by La Chapelle Harmonique, whose hard-worked horns deserve a special... —
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Special offer. J.s. Bach: Messe En Si Mineur
English Baroque Soloists (early music ensemble), Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Special offer. Lully: Te Deum and Biber: Missa Salisburgensis
The Pages of the Centre de Musique, Baroque de Versailles, Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Luks
[Lully] Conductor Vàclav Luks maintains a tight control, delivering a spectacular performance from fanfare opening to the magnificent contrapuntal conclusion with its jaunty dance rhythm and... —
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This is a ‘normal’ concert, and filmed as such, the focus being very much on its 21st-century performers…The singing and playing here are of predictable high quality. A college or cathedral... —
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Special offer. Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Mathias Vidal (Faust), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Thibault de Damas d’Anlezy (Brander)
Les Siècles, Chœur Marguerite Louise, François-Xavier Roth
This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack of drama, an almost Karajan-like tidying-up of corners…The... —
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Special offer. Marie Antoinette: Ballet Sur der Symphonies de Haydn et Gluck
Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut
Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Orchestre Symphonique d’Euskadi, Thierry Malandain
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Special offer. Le Sacre de Louis XIV
The Coronation of Louis XIV
Ensemble Correspondances, Les Pages du CMBV, Sébastien Daucé
