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Special offer. Amazone

Lea Desandre (mezzo), Jupiter, Thomas Dunford

Amazone

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We very quickly learn just how characterful Desandre can be with her amused, laughing reactions to women in battle in ‘Non posso far’, and the dark glitter of her voice in the melancholic ‘Lasciatemi...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Special offer. Amazone

Lea Desandre (mezzo), Jupiter, Thomas Dunford

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We very quickly learn just how characterful Desandre can be with her amused, laughing reactions to women in battle in ‘Non posso far’, and the dark glitter of her voice in the melancholic ‘Lasciatemi...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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• The original concept of Lea Desandre’s Amazone is based on music of the Baroque period written specifically on the subject of the Amazons, the mythical race of female warriors

• Amazone has been recorded with the magnificent ensemble Jupiter and conductor Thomas Dunford

• Lea Desandre explores the fascinating ways that composers treat their Amazonian characters, particularly interesting figures in that they embody a “male/female” duality

• Gender ambiguity, which plays a role in so many operatic plots, provides an infinite source of dramatic and musical inspiration

• Amazone has three special guests, true stars in the world of Baroque music: Cecilia Bartoli and Véronique Gens appear in separate duets with Lea, and William Christie features on harpsichord in a piece by Couperin

• Amazone features compositions of Vivaldi, Cavali, Provenzale, Couperin, Rameau, and more

• Concerts: 9 March Chaux-de-Fonds (Swiss), 11 March Arts Renaissants, Toulouse (France), 13 March Paris Philharmonie, 20 March Ajaccio, Corsica (France), 7 April Rouen Opéra, Chapelle Corneille (France), 11 April Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence (France), 18 Oct ElbPhilharmonie Hambourg

Contents and tracklist

Provenzale: Non posso far (from Lo schiavo di sua moglie)
Work length1:31
Cavalli: Sinfonia (from Ercole Amante)
Work length2:26
Provenzale: Lasciatemi morir, stelle crudeli (from Lo schiavo di sua moglie)
Work length3:20
Viviani: Muove il piè, furia d'Averno (from Mitilene, regina delle amazzoni)
Work length1:14
Bottis: Io piango (from Mitilene, regina delle amazzoni)
Work length4:56
Schürmann, G C: Die getreue Alceste: Sinfonia pour la tempête
Work length1:08
Pallavacino: L'Antiope
Work length3:48
"Vieni, corri, volami in braccio" (Antiope)
Track length2:35
"Sdegni, furori barbari" (Celinda)
Track length1:13
Philidor, A: Les Amazones: "Venez, troupe guerrière" - "Puisque tout est tranquille" - "Combattons, courrons à la gloire" (Thalestris, Hippolyte)
Work length4:19
Couperin, L: Passacaille in C
Work length3:01
Destouches, A: Faible fierté, gloire impuissante (from Marthésie, première reine des amazones)
Work length4:05
Marais, M: L'Amériquaine (from Suite d'un goût étranger)
Work length4:57
Destouches, A: Ô mort ! Ô triste mort (from Marthésie, première reine des amazones)
Work length2:24
Jean Rondeau: Postlude improvisé
Work length2:44
Couperin, F: Pièces de clavecin II: Ordre 10ème in D major: L'amazône
Work length1:49
Destouches, A: Quel coup me réservait la colère céleste? (from Marthésie, première reine des amazones)
Work length4:28
Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710, Sinfonia: I. Allegro
Work length1:40
Bottis: Che farai misero core (from Mitilene, regina delle amazzoni)
Work length3:53
Schürmann, G C: Non ha fortuna il pianto mio (from Die getreue Alceste)
Work length2:23
Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710, Sinfonia: II. [Andante]
Work length2:29
Bottis: Mitilene, regina delle amazzoni
Work length6:18
"Lieti fiori, erbe odorose" (Mitilene)
Track length4:13
"Sdegno all'armi, alle vendette" (Mitilene)
Track length2:05
Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710, Sinfonia: III. Allegro
Work length1:17
Excerpt,Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte
Work length8:42
"Onde chiare che sussurrate" (Ippolita)
Track length7:05
"Scenderò, volerò, griderò" (Antiope)
Track length1:37
Dunford: Amazones
Work length2:11

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    July 2026
    Critics' Choice 2021
  • Gramophone Magazine
    Awards Issue 2021
    Editor's Choice
  • Presto Editor's Choice
    October 2021
  • Presto Recordings of the Year
    Finalist 2021
  • Record Review
    Records of the Year 2021
  • Opus Klassik
    2022
    Female Singer of the Year
  • Gramophone Awards
    2022
    Finalist - Voice & Ensemble

November 2021

We very quickly learn just how characterful Desandre can be with her amused, laughing reactions to women in battle in ‘Non posso far’, and the dark glitter of her voice in the melancholic ‘Lasciatemi morire’, both from Provenzale’s Lo schiavo di sua moglie. Technically and stylistically, too, she is very accomplished.
5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

Awards Issue 2021

This is a stonkingly good album. It makes me wonder: what exactly are these enviously intelligent, inventive and generous musicians drinking?

November 2022

Desandre owns to a vital, versatile musical personality that enables her to engage with her texts to a rare degree, frequently colouring her voice to exquisite effect.

October 2021

Her pin-sharp coloratura in showpieces from Vivaldi's Ercole sul Termodonte and Giuseppe de Bottis's Mitilene, regina delle amazzoni rivals that of her mentor Cecilia Bartoli (who joins her in a duet from the latter work), whilst the dignified pathos which she brings to the numerous long-breathed laments put me in mind of Véronique Gens (who also makes a cameo appearance).
Katherine Cooper

6th November 2021

The music is beautifully performed, vivacious, and intelligently programmed. Desandre flies weightlessly around elaborate ornamentation, expressive and precise. The Jupiter players and Dunford excel.
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