Monteclair: Cantates à voix seule

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This is an admirable marriage between scholarly revelation and uninhibited delight in performance...Kirkby has thrilled us for years with her sparkling Italianate virtuosity. She's no less outstanding... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: BISCD1865
Label: BIS
Length: 69 minutes

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Monteclair: Cantates a voix seule, Book 1, Le retour de la paix

Work length15:15

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Emma Kirkby
London Baroque
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Vivement

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Air. Tendrement

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Legerement

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Lent et detache

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Leger et doux

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Recitatif: Discorde, tes efforts vont etre superflus

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Air des Trompettes

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Monteclair: Cantates a une et a deux voix, Book 2, Pan et Syrinx

Work length17:41

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Emma Kirkby
London Baroque
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Recitatif

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Air

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Air. Lent et mesure

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Symphonie: Modéré

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Recitatif

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Air gai

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Recitatif

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Air, lentement et tendrement

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Air gai

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Monteclair: Cantates a voix seule, Book 1, Le triomphe de la constance

Work length11:52

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Emma Kirkby
London Baroque
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Recitatif

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Tendrement et un peu de mouvement

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Recitatif

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Tendrement

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Recitatif

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Air

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Monteclair: Cantates a voix seule, Book 1, La mort de Didon

Work length12:18

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Emma Kirkby
London Baroque
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Lent, marque et detache

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Air. Lent

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Recitatif

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Vivement

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Recitatif

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Air

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Monteclair: Cantates a une et a deux voix, Book 3, Morte di Lucretia

Work length12:47

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Emma Kirkby
London Baroque
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Presto

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Recitativo

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Aria. Largo et affettuoso

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Recitativo

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Aria. Vivace - Adagio

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Recitativo. Adagio

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Recitativo

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Emma Kirkby and London Baroque here return to BIS with a disc of music from the French composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair.

An almost exact contemporary of François Couperin and only some 15 years older than Rameau, Montéclair was also a composer working in all the genres current at the time, including that of the chamber cantata for one or two voices and strings, dealing mainly with subjects from classical history or mythology. The large majority used French texts with four Italian ones, including La Morte di Lucretia, recorded here.

The works The Return of Peace and Le Triomfe de la Constance both illustrate Montéclair’s skill at overcoming the challenges of producing a restricted instrumentation that provides effective backcloth for the action. The trumpets celebrating The Return of Peace are quite satisfactorily suggested by unison violins, and the shepherd's bagpipes are alluded to by two bass viols in Le Triomfe de la Constance.

Emma Kirkby and London Baroque have previously worked together on BIS with recordings of solo cantatas by Handel that have met with great acclaim.

Reviews

November 2011

This is an admirable marriage between scholarly revelation and uninhibited delight in performance...Kirkby has thrilled us for years with her sparkling Italianate virtuosity. She's no less outstanding in the subtleties of French singing, decorating lines with nuanced trills, turns and leaning dissonances, while sustaining an irresistable sense of purpose and forward direction.

November 2011

Kirkby embellishes every note with a grace, lightness and sparkle which other sopranos in careers half as long have already lost. Her taste serves expression. Baroque swirls, shakes, roulades and turns float as weightlessly as cherubs on a church ceiling...She engages with the instruments. Voice and violin mimic each other in the death of Dido while in Triomfe de la Constance, the sombre gamba is her echo.

January 2012

Emma Kirkby singing French repertoire is a rare thing but her old friends London Baroque are steeped in it, and these performances are as stylish as one could wish...Kirkby's voice could have been brought further forward but her ever-present virtues of clarity, secure passagework and interpretative intelligence still emerge

17th September 2011

Though in her sixties, Dame Emma Kirkby summons all her old vocal glories — clean line, plangent timbre, deft ornaments, impeccable intonation and a superb response to text...it’s in the laments for Dido and Lucretia that she is at her most expressive, and here, too, that London Baroque’s astringent single strings are most effective.

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