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Ombre de mon amant

French Baroque Arias

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)

Chœur et orchestre Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

Ombre de mon amant

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For readers who have yet to be seduced by French Baroque music, Anne Sofie von Otter's recital with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie may be the start of a grand passion. Charpentier...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20104 out of 5 stars

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Ombre de mon amant

French Baroque Arias

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)

Chœur et orchestre Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

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For readers who have yet to be seduced by French Baroque music, Anne Sofie von Otter's recital with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie may be the start of a grand passion. Charpentier...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20104 out of 5 stars

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Ombre de mon amant is Anne Sofie von Otter’s first recording of these French Baroque Arias - graceful, temperamental tunes which will delight her fans and thrill Baroque music cognoscenti

Otter’s mastery of diverse musical genres, crystalline diction and exquisite musicality empower her interpretations of French repertoire. Her celebrated Offenbach album and album of rarities of songs by Chaminade are cases in point

Anne Sofie von Otter, every bit a woman of the theatre as she is of song, embodies Charpentier's Médée and Phèdre in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie matchlessly, in the grand manner

The Guardian commented: “Her Médée […] was a thing of wonder. Keeping us to the right side of empathy, von Otter dragged us with her into utter monstrosity, unleashing hell with the most exquisite of pianissimos and suggesting vortices of emotion beneath the calm, controlled surface.”

Contents and tracklist

Charpentier, M-A: Medée, H. 491
Work length1:55
Overture
Track length1:55
Charpentier, M-A: Medée, H. 491, Act II Scène 2
Work length2:38
Princesse c'est sur vous
Track length2:38
Lambert, M: Ma bergère
Work length2:34
Lambert, M: Ombre de mon amant
Work length4:32
Charpentier, M-A: Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H. 545
Work length3:27
I. Prelude
Track length3:27
Charpentier, M-A: Medée, H. 491, Act III
Work length18:42
Quel prix de mon amour
Track length5:00
Croiras-tu mon malheur – Dieux témoins de la foy que l'ingrat m'a donnée
Track length0:56
Prélude – C'en est fait, on m'y force
Track length1:16
Avant que d'éclater – Malgré ta noire trahison
Track length1:52
Prélude – Noires filles du Styx
Track length1:47
Venez mêler à mes poison
Track length0:58
Prélude – Je voy le Don fatal
Track length0:52
Premier Air pour les Démons
Track length1:23
Dieu du Cocyte et des Royaumes sombres
Track length3:12
Entrée des Démons
Track length1:26
Charpentier, M-A: Auprès du feu l'on fait l'amour, H. 446
Work length1:59
Charpentier, M-A: Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H. 545
Work length1:07
IV. Gigue angloise
Track length1:07
Charpentier, M-A: Celle qui fait mon tourment, H. 450
Work length1:55
Charpentier, M-A: Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H. 545
Work length1:11
V. Gigue francoise
Track length1:11
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43, Act III
Work length5:37
Prélude – Cruelle mère des amours
Track length5:37
Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41, Prologue Scene 5
Work length1:40
Air gracieux pour Zéphyre et les Grâces
Track length1:40
Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41, Prologue Scene 4
Work length2:11
Ariette de l'Amour. Vole, Zéphyre!
Track length2:11
Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41, Act I Scene 8
Work length1:46
Tambourins I et II, Première Entrée la poésie
Track length1:46
Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41, Act II Scene 5
Work length7:00
Air tendre (pour un amour et le génie d'Apollon)
Track length0:51
Loure pour le génie de Mars
Track length1:08
Air pour le génie de la Victoire
Track length1:13
Chaconne en pas de cinq
Track length3:48
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43, Act IV Scene 4
Work length4:13
Quelle plainte en ces lieux m'appelle?
Track length4:13
Lambert, M: Vos mépris chaque jour
Work length2:30

Awards and reviews

March 2010

For readers who have yet to be seduced by French Baroque music, Anne Sofie von Otter's recital with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie may be the start of a grand passion. Charpentier and Rameau's tragic heroines require a depth of experience and complexity of expression beyond young singers... Impeccably accompanied this is a tour de force from opera's Meryl Streep.
4 out of 5 stars

July 2010

Von Otter sounds utterly wretched in Medea's lament for her lost love; then she intensifies her tone as she summons up demons and monsters...[she] conveys Phaedra's various emotions with consummate ease.

15th January 2010

As the titular anti-heroine of Charpentier's Médée, she plumbs the depths of villainous tragedy with an energetic relish. But it's the pastoral airs by Michel Lambert which provide the greatest pleasure
4 out of 5 stars

5th February 2010

Von Otter has spoken of her love affair with the French Baroque and it is something that she avows in her singing, which can range from anger to the tenderest pensiveness, from lofty seriousness to whimsicality. This a captivating programme, performed with finesse and radiance.
5 out of 5 stars
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