Special offer. Lully: Psyché
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Opera Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Shortlisted - Opera
Under harpsichordist-director Christophe Rousset, brisk instrumental movements are electrifying, laments wrenching and comic numbers hilarious.
Special offer. Lully: Psyché
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
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Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Opera Choice
-
International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Shortlisted - Opera
Under harpsichordist-director Christophe Rousset, brisk instrumental movements are electrifying, laments wrenching and comic numbers hilarious.
About
Venus, irritated by the young mortal Psyche whose beauty radiates all across the world, dispatches Cupid to impose a thousand trials upon her, which the young victim triumphs over to the point of becoming immortal. In this mythological fable, which is his sixth tragedie lyrique (1678), Lully shows off his immense talent and takes revenge on Moliere, for whom he had written the music of a monumental Psyche in 1671, and which had been the cause of their falling out. A connoisseur of Lully, Christophe Rousset conducts a sumptuous cast that gives his Psyche all the lustre of the great French operas!
Contents and tracklist
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Prologue Scene 1: Ce n'est plus le temps de la guerre - Nous goûtons une paix profonde (Flore, Chœur)
Work length3:29
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Eugénie Lefebvre
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Cyril Auvity, Eugénie Lefebvre, Fabien Hyon
Air pour les dryades, les sylvains, etc. Rendez-vous, beautés cruelles (Vertumne, Palémon)
Track length2:55
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Prologue Scene 2: Pourquoi du ciel m'obliger à descendre ? (Vénus)
Work length0:45
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Bénédicte Tauran
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Prologue Scene 3: Ritournelle. Mon fils, si tu plains mes malheurs (Vénus)
Work length2:29
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Bénédicte Tauran
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Act I Scene 1: Ritournelle. Enfin ma soeur, le ciel est apaisé (Aglaure, Cidippe)
Work length3:51
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Deborah Cachet, Eugénie Lefebvre
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Anas Séguin, Ambroisine Bré, Deborah Cachet, Robert Getchell, Eugénie Lefebvre, Philippe Estèphe
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Act I Scene 3: Psyché vient, à la voir je tremble (Aglaure, Cidippe, Psyché)
Work length1:07
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Deborah Cachet, Eugénie Lefebvre, Ambroisine Bré
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Act I Scene 4: Seigneur, vous soupirez vous-même ? (Psyché, le Roi)
Work length4:07
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Ambroisine Bré, Anas Séguin
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Act II Scene 1: Ritournelle. Cyclopes, achevez ce superbe palais - Entrée des Cyclopes (Vulcain)
Work length1:34
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Robert Getchell
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Act II Scene 2: Pressez-vous ce travail que l'Amour vous demande ? (Zéphire, Vulcain)
Work length3:09
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Robert Getchell
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Act II: Air des forgerons. Dépêchez, préparez ces lieux (Vulcain)
Work length2:09
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Robert Getchell
Lully:
Psyché, LWV 56, Act II Scene 3: Ritournelle. Quoi, vous vous employez pour la fière Psyché (Vénus, Vulcain)
Work length3:20
- Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Robert Getchell, Bénédicte Tauran
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineMarch 2023Opera Choice
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International Opera Awards2023Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Opera
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2024Shortlisted - Opera
March 2023
Under harpsichordist-director Christophe Rousset, brisk instrumental movements are electrifying, laments wrenching and comic numbers hilarious.
March 2023
Ambroisine Bré shines as Psyché, her voice clear and agile yet with just enough weight in it to give dramatic substance to her bemused but determined character.
March 2023
Bré’s gorgeous mezzo is a voice I noted for attention some years ago, but here she attains new heights in one of her most demanding roles yet,,,We are here concerned with a stellar achievement. Christophe Rousset’s Lully needs no endorsement from me or anyone else at this point; Lully and Rousset is quite simply a marriage made in heaven. Throughout, the music breathes and dances as if it were of the conductor’s own making.
