Enfers

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[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2018
Catalogue No: HMM902288
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 78 minutes

Presto Editor's Choice

March 2018
Gramophone Magazine

May 2018

Editor's Choice
Record Review

24th February 2018

Recording of the Week
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2018
The Times Records of the Year

2018
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2019

Finalist - Vocal
International Opera Awards

2019

Winner - Recital Album

Excerpt, Rameau: Zoroastre

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Ah ! Nos fureurs ne sont point vaines (La Vengeance)

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Excerpt, Rebel, J-F: Les Élémens

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Chaos

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Excerpt, Rameau: Dardanus

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Voici les tristes lieux. Montre affreux (Anténor)

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Rameau: Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Requiem æternam

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Excerpt, Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Dieux ! Protecteurs de ces affreux rivages (Oreste)

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Rameau: Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Kyrie eleison

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Excerpt, Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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Nicolas Courjal (soloist), Mathias Vidal (soloist), Stéphane Degout (soloist), Thomas Dolié (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Dieux ! Que d'infortunés gémissent en ces lieux ! (Thésée)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Loure

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Excerpt, Gluck: Armide

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Stanislas de Barbeyrac (soloist), Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Nous ne trouvons partout que des gouffres ouverts (Ubalde et le Chevalier danois)

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Rameau: Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Domine Jesu Christe

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Excerpt, Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Sinfonie infernale. Air de furie

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Excerpt, Rameau: Zoroastre

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Emmanuelle de Negri (soloist), Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Épuisons le flanc des tristes victimes (Abramane) - Ministres, redoutés du plus puissant empire (Abramane, Érinice)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Zoroastre

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Air grave pour les Esprits infernaux

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Excerpt, Rameau: Zoroastre

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Quel bonheur ! L'Enfer nous seconde (Abramane, Les Furies, choir)

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Excerpt, Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Danse des Furies

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Excerpt, Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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Mathias Vidal (soloist), Stéphane Degout (soloist), Thomas Dolié (soloist), Nicolas Courjal (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Vous, qui de l'avenir percez la nuit profonde (Pluton) - Quelle soudaine horreur (Trois Parques)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Qu'ai-je appris ? Puissant maître des flots (Thésée)

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Rameau: Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux

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Reinoud Van Mechelen (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Hostias et preces tibi

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Excerpt, Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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Stanislas de Barbeyrac (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Quelle plainte en ces lieux m'appelle ? (Phèdre)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Je ne te verrai plus ! (Thésée)

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Excerpt, Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Ballet des Ombres heureuses

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Rameau: Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux

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Stéphane Degout (soloist)
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Requiem æternam

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Boréades

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Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Entrée de Polymnie

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Raphaël Pichon has invited Stéphane Degout to make his recording debut for harmonia mundi in a multifaceted exploration of the Underworld. The French baritone reincarnates the figure of Henri Larrivée, the famous tragedian of Rameau and Gluck. Around a reconstruction of an imaginary Mass of the Dead, sacred and secular merge, revealing some of the most extraordinary pieces from the operatic repertory of the Enlightenment. Music of death and mourning on an epic scale that inspires Pygmalion to overwhelming heights of pathos.

A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and member of the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Lyon, Stéphane Degout quickly came to international attention in his debut as Papageno at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Since then, he has appeared on the world’s major operatic stages, namely the Opera de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra Comique, Berlin Staatsoper, La Monnaie, Theater an der Wien, Royal Opera House, Lyric Opera Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala and the Bayerische Staatsoper. His numerous festival appearances include Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Tokyo and Los Angeles.

Raphaël Pichon began his musical training at the Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Versailles and went on to study singing, the violin and the piano at the Paris Conservatoires (CRR, CNSMDP). As a young countertenor he sang under the direction of Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, and Geoffroy Jourdain with whom he performed contemporary works. In 2006 he founded the ensemble Pygmalion, which combines a choir and a period instrument orchestra. The ensemble’s repertoire is nurtured by the filiations that link Bach to Mendelssohn, Schütz to Brahms, and Rameau to Gluck and Berlioz. Along with this group – now an associate ensemble at the Opéra de Bordeaux – he is invited to appear at leading festivals, where he has attracted attention with his interpretations of the sacred music of Bach and the tragédies lyriques of Rameau.

Reviews

June 2018

[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t miss this rollercoaster ride through the underworld!

May 2018

Degout rises splendidly to the climax of ‘Monstre affreux’ from Dardanus...The Pygmalion chorus comes into its own in sections of the Requiem...Forget the ‘end of time’ conceit and marvel at the music, so winningly performed by Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon.

September 2018

Degout [is] evidently in his prime and in terrifically commanding form throughout…The disc contains 78’ 27’’ of simply wonderful music performed, almost all of it, to the day’s highest standards. I had some doubts about Pichon’s tendency to melodramatize the already dramatic, and to make fast very fast; but overall the orchestral playing and the singing both solo and choral emerge with refinement, exactness of delivery vocal and instrumental, and mastery of period style

March 2018

This terrific road to hell is paved with more than mere good intentions: Degout is a born tragedien, stirring up pity and terror in every phrase and singing with the same sonorous authority and immediacy that made his Chorèbe on John Nelsons’s recent Les Troyens such a resounding triumph. Rameau and Gluck both sound startlingly modern in the hands of Pichon and his musicians, shot through with anticipations of Berlioz and even Wagner.

9th March 2018

A full-blooded, idiosyncratic concept album created from infernal slivers of baroque and early classical French opera...everything here sounds deliciously spine-chilling, from the growls and twangs of Pygmalion’s period instruments to Degout’s throbbing anguish.

Sunday Herald 10th Apri 2018

It is Degout’s superb account of Oreste’s “nightmare” sequence from Iphigénie en Tauride, where the Furies invoke a vision of his murdered mother, that makes this a collectors’ item...It is diabolically excellent.

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