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Gretry: Andromaque

Karine Deshayes (soprano), Maria Riccarda Wesseling (mezzo-soprano), Sébastien Guèze (tenor) & Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)

Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet

Gretry: Andromaque
The performers face interesting challenges...the lovely exchange between Andromache and the chorus at Hector's tomb is brought to life by the mezzos...Under Hervé Niquet's guidance, the orchestral...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20104 out of 5 stars

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Gretry: Andromaque

Karine Deshayes (soprano), Maria Riccarda Wesseling (mezzo-soprano), Sébastien Guèze (tenor) & Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)

Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet

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The performers face interesting challenges...the lovely exchange between Andromache and the chorus at Hector's tomb is brought to life by the mezzos...Under Hervé Niquet's guidance, the orchestral...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20104 out of 5 stars

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Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel continue their journey of rediscovering forgotten operatic works. This time they chose music from the close of the Age of Enlightenment: Andromaque, the single tragédie lyrique written by Grétry (1741- 1813). Known above all for his light opéras comiques, Grétry turned at the end of his career towards an increasingly heroic style in the vein of Méhul and Cherubini. The work reflects an age of change, torn between nostalgia for the reign of Louis XIV and the cult of modernity and progress. Thus, it overlays, on the barely altered Jean Racine text of 1667, a music already suffused with Romantic aspirations, where modern tones and accents clothe the passions of the Classical Greek age in a new guise. Never performed since its initial production, Andromaque today reveals the modernity of the French school on the eve of the French Revolution and reveals itself as an unexpected link between Baroque and Romanticism.

  • Release date: 26th Apr 2010
  • Label: Glossa
  • Catalogue number: GCD921620
  • Length: 88 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Gretry: Andromaque
Work length1:28:03
Ouverture
Track length4:06
Act I Scene 1: Cessez de repandre des larmes… (Chorus)
Track length2:00
Act I Scene 1: C'est le seul espoir qui me reste… (Hermione)
Track length1:22
Act I Scene 1: Si, fidele au noeud qui l'engage… (Hermione)
Track length1:51
Act I Scene 2: Marche
Track length0:27
Act I Scene 2: Au vainqueur des Troyens… (Oreste)
Track length1:50
Act I Scene 2: De tous nos rois secondez la colere… (Oreste, Chorus)
Track length0:41
Act I Scene 2: Non, non, … je veux defendre et le fils et la mere… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:20
Act I Scene 2: Je ne fus que trop implacable… (Pyrrhus)
Track length1:27
Act I Scene 2: Je defendrai contre eux et le fils et la mere… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:56
Act I Scene 2: Marche
Track length0:29
Act I Scene 3: Je l'envoie, je le sais, aux pieds de sa maitresse… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:33
Act I Scene 4: Ou portez-vous vos pas? … (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:51
Act I Scene 4: Ils me menacent de leurs armes… (Pyrrhus)
Track length1:32
Act I Scene 4: Triste, captive, importune a moi-meme… (Andromaque)
Track length0:37
Act I Scene 4: Votre vainqueur baigne de larmes… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:55
Act I Scene 4: Ah! dites-moi seulement que j'espere… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:37
Act I Scene 4: Murs sacres! que n'a pu conserver mon Hector… (Andromaque)
Track length1:43
Act I Scene 4: Cruelle! … (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:27
Act I Scene 4: Vous le voulez? He bien, cruelle! … (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:57
Act I Scene 4: Le fils, dans ma juste colere… (Pyrrhus)
Track length2:07
Act I Scene 5: Ah! c'en est fait, cruelle! … (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:31
Act I Scene 5: Je m'applaudis de ma victoire… (Pyrrhus)
Track length1:48
Act I Scene 5: Qu'on cherche Oreste, amenez Hermione… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:56
Act I Scene 6: Fille de Menelas, Oreste… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:24
Act I Scene 6: J'oublie a jamais l'ingrate… (Pyrrhus)
Track length1:33
Act I Scene 6: Dieux! que cet aveu me flatte… (Pyrrhus)
Track length1:39
Act I Scene 6: Marche
Track length1:46
Act II Scene 1: Moderez ce transport jaloux… (Chorus)
Track length4:02
Act II Scene 2: Regnez a jamais dans mon ame… (Hermione)
Track length2:03
Act II Scene 2: Bientot le pompe nuptiale… (Hermione)
Track length0:27
Act II Scene 3: Ne fuyez point un spectacle si doux! … (Chorus)
Track length1:42
Act II Scene 4: Elle fuit, la cruelle, et se rit de mes larmes… (Andromaque)
Track length1:13
Act II Scene 4: Chere epouse, dit-il, je te laisse ce gage… (Andromaque)
Track length1:00
Act II Scene 4: Et sa mere pourrait supporter son trepas? … (Andromaque)
Track length0:22
Act II Scene 5: Hatons-nous et quittons ce rivage… (Chorus)
Track length1:18
Act II Scene 6: Phoenix, il faut aux Grecs livrer le fils d'Hector… (Pyrrhus)
Track length1:17
Act II Scene 6: Helas! vous pouvez, sans pitie… (Andromaque)
Track length1:09
Act II Scene 7: Laissez-moi baigner de mes larmes… (Andromaque)
Track length1:21
Act II Scene 7: Je ne puis resister a ses larmes… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:18
Act II Scene 7: A votre fils, je servirai de pere… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:45
Act II Scene 7: Ciel c'en est fait! … (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:36
Act II Scene 8: C'est pour l'hymen d'une immortelle… (Chorus)
Track length1:58
Act II Scene 8: Gavotte
Track length1:31
Act II Scene 9: C'en est fait! Le parjure! … (Hermione)
Track length0:23
Act II Scene 9: Va lui jurer la foi que tu m'avais juree… (Hermione)
Track length0:51
Act II Scene 9: Quoi! preferer a la fille d'un roi… (Chorus)
Track length0:44
Act II Scene 10: Croirai-je que vos yeux sont enfin desarmes? … (Oreste)
Track length0:37
Act II Scene 10: Vengez-moi; je crois tout… (Hermione)
Track length1:27
Act II Scene 10: Lache! n'espere plus obtenir ma conquete! … (Hermione)
Track length0:37
Act II Scene 10: Il ne mourra que de la main d'Oreste… (Oreste)
Track length0:19
Act II Scene 10: Jurez de venger son injure… (Oreste)
Track length1:22
Act III Scene 1: Ombre cherie, ombre sacree… (Andromaque)
Track length2:51
Act III Scene 1: Recois, chere ombre que j'adore… (Andromaque)
Track length2:00
Act III Scene 1: Vivez pour votre fils et faites son bonheur… (Chorus)
Track length0:46
Act III Scene 2: Pyrrhus vous attend a l'autel… (Phoenix)
Track length0:31
Act III Scene 3: Quel spectacle cruel! … (Hermione)
Track length2:28
Act III Scene 3: Bravons la crainte et le danger… (Hermione)
Track length0:47
Act III Scene 4: Chantons, celebrons l'hymenee… (Chorus)
Track length1:16
Act III Scene 4: Gavotte
Track length0:50
Act III Scene 4: Menuet
Track length1:08
Act III Scene 4: Reprise de la Gavotte
Track length1:24
Act III Scene 4: Marche
Track length0:28
Act III Scene 4: Dieu d'Hymen, que sous ton empire… (Chorus)
Track length1:05
Act III Scene 4: Andromaque, regnez sur mon peuple et sur moi… (Pyrrhus)
Track length0:50
Act III Scene 4: Combat
Track length0:48
Act III Scene 5: Quels cris me remplissent d'effroi? … (Hermione)
Track length0:28
Act III Scene 6: Princesse, c'en est fait! votre haine est servie… (Oreste)
Track length1:32
Act III Scene 6: Barbare, ne voyais-tu pas… (Hermione)
Track length0:56
Act III Scene 7: Est-ce Hermione? … Et que viens-je d'entendre? … (Oreste)
Track length0:52
Act III Scene 8: O fureur! O funeste sort! … (Chorus)
Track length0:50
Act III Scene 8: Sauvons-le de sa fureur! … (Chorus)
Track length1:49
Act III Scene 8: Filles d'enfer, vos mains sont-elle pretes? … (Oreste)
Track length1:12
Act III Scene 8: Dieux implacables, dieux vengeurs… (Chorus)
Track length1:25

Awards and reviews

September 2010

The performers face interesting challenges...the lovely exchange between Andromache and the chorus at Hector's tomb is brought to life by the mezzos...Under Hervé Niquet's guidance, the orchestral sound is always tuneful, piquant and alert.
4 out of 5 stars

August 2016

a lean authentic-sounding performance … Karine Deshayes in haunting in the title-role.

13th May 2010

a real rollercoaster ride of an opera...The playing and choral singing are electrifying...Karine Deshayes is wonderfully authoritative as the inflexible heroine and Sébastien Guèze makes your flesh creep as Pyrrhus.
4 out of 5 stars

25th April 2010

It is crammed with dramatic music and noble sentiments, reminiscent both of Gluck and the Mozart of Idomeneo...This sterling performance, declaimed with passion and conviction, with especially fine choruses and good soloists under Hervé Niquet, makes a strong case for it
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