Château de Versailles Spectacles
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Special offer. Lully: Armide
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Armide), Cyril Auvity (Renaud), Eva Zaïcik (La Gloire/Sidonie/Lucinde), Marie Perbost (La Sagesse/Phénice/Mélisse), Timothée Varon (Artémidore/La Haine), David Tricou (Le Chevalier danois/Un Amant fortuné)
Le Poème Harmonique, Chœur de l'Opéra de Dijon, Vincent Dumestre
Obvious as it may seem, it’s worth stressing that the opera belongs to Armide. She is not a wicked witch but a fallible, sensitive woman whom Quinault shows from every angle. The part is a perfect... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Rameau: Pygmalion - Iso: Zémide
Ema Nikolovska, Virginie Thomas, Gwendoline Blondeel, Philippe Estèphe, A Nocte Temporis, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Reinoud Van Mechelen
Rameau's music is enchanting throughout, and the piece [Pygmalion] enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime. Tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen, who also directs the performances, is on characteristically... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Un Bouquet de Myrrhe
Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Fabien Armengaud
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Special offer. Charpentier: Messe de Minuit
Caroline Arnaud, Romain Champion, David Witczak, Mathias Vidal (tenor), Blanche Lefèvre, Marguerite Louise, Gaétan Jarry
The choir's lean muscularity is forceful in passages that invite softer intimacy, although there are moments of harmonious grandeur that embrace visceral textures compellingly. —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Claire Lefilliâtre, Ana Escudero, Jennifer Courcier, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Nicholas Scott, Marco Angioloni, Francesca Aspromonte, Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Juan Sancho (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass), Camille Poul, Geoffroy Buffière, Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget
It comes closer than many to an elusive golden mean by presenting an uncut text, adopting relatively straightforward instrumentation (fiddles, some other strings and a plethora of chordal continuo... —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Elsa Benoit (Poppea), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Ambroisine Bré (Ottavia), Iestyn Davies (Ottone), Alex Rosen (Seneca), Stuart Jackson (Arnalta), Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón
Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea are experts at this repertoire and play with skill, commitment, energy and some innovative continuo devices to reflect, emphasise and punctuate the singers...I... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV's Chamber
Myriam Rignol, Mathilde Vialle, Julie Dessaint, Danaé Monnié, Marc Mauillon (baritone), Josèphe Cottet, Yoko Kawakubo, Thomas Leconte, Valérie Balssa, Romain Falik, Thibaut Roussel, Sébastien Daucé
One of the most attractive features of this album for me is the sense of time and place it creates. In addition to over an hour of meticulously rehearsed and interpreted period performances,... —
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Special offer. Philidor: Ernelinde, Princesse de Norvège
Judith van Wanroij (soprano), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Matthieu Lécroart, Jehanne Amzal, Clément Debieuvre, Martin Barigault, Orkester Nord, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Vox Nidrosiensis, Martin Wåhlberg
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Special offer. Boismortier: Don Quichotte Chez La Duchesse
Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (soloist), Mathias Vidal (soloist), Chantal Santon Jeffery (soloist), Camille Poul, Nicolas Brooymans (soloist), Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
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