Molière at the Opera: Stage music by Jean-Baptiste Lully

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The performers throw themselves into it with engaging gusto. Correas encourages what he calls ‘parlé-chanté’ for the comic scenes, at which tenor Jérôme Billy and bass Virgile Ancely excel as... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2016 More…

Release Date: 7th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: GCD923509
Label: Glossa
Length: 72 minutes

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Lully: La pastorale comique, LWV 33

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Jean-François Lombard (tenor), Jérôme Billy (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass), Jérôme Correas (harpsichord)
Paladins, Les
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Opéra de Reims, France

Déesse des appas … O toi, qui peux rendre agréable

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Ah, qu'il est beau… Qu'il est joli

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Lully: La princesse d'Élide, LWV 22

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Luanda Siqueira (soprano), Jérôme Correas (harpsichord)
Paladins, Les

La princesse d'Elide: Quand l'amour à nos yeux

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Lully: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41

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Jérôme Billy (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass), Jérôme Correas (harpsichord)
Paladins, Les
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Opéra de Reims, France

La polygamie est un cas pendable

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Piglialo sù

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Excerpt, Lully: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

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Jean-François Lombard (tenor), Jérôme Correas (harpsichord), Virgile Ancely (bass)
Paladins, Les
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Opéra de Reims, France

Sé que me muero de amor

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Ay qué locura

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Lully: Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42

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Luanda Siqueira (soprano), Jérôme Billy (tenor), Jérôme Correas (harpsichord)
Paladins, Les

Les amants magnifiques: Quand je plaisais à tes yeux

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Charpentier, M-A: Le Sicilien, LWV 34

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Jérôme Correas (harpsichord)
Paladins, Les

Le sicilien: Ouverture

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Charpentier, M-A: Le mariage forcé, LWV 20

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Jean-François Lombard (tenor), Jérôme Billy (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass), Jérôme Correas (harpsichord)
Paladins, Les

Le mariage forcé: La, la, la, bonjour

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Lully: Psyché

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Luanda Siqueira (soprano), Jean-François Lombard (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass), Jérôme Correas (harpsichord)
Paladins, Les
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Opéra de Reims, France

Deh, piangete al pianto mio

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Le dieu qui nous engage

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Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42

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Jean-François Lombard (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass)
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Opéra de Reims, France

Menuet

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Vous chantez sous ces feuillages

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Ah! Que sur notre coeur

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Dormez, beaux yeux

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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43

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Luanda Siqueira (soprano), Jérôme Billy (tenor)
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Opéra de Reims, France

À moi, Monsieur

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Quels spectacles charmants

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With 'Molière à l’opéra' Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins bring their much-admired combination of Baroque stylishness and varied vocal techniques to comédies-ballets composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marc-Antoine Charpentier during the reign of Louis XIV.

The musical and theatrical partnership involving Lully and Molière – they were dubbed 'les deux Baptiste' – was one of the most invigorating ever entered into, marrying melody, words, acting and a shared hunger for fame. The collaboration spanned ten works over a decade from 1661. Although Molière never provided the words for a Lully opera, the great dramatist clearly inspired the composer in his later tragédies lyriques, a view upheld by the essayist for this recording, Elisabeth Giuliani.

As well as presenting scenes from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, this new Glossa recording draws on the humorous end of the Molière/Lully partnership in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac as well as more tragic airs from 'Psyché', by way of the trio grotesque from Charpentier’s score for Le Mariage forcé. Luanda Siqueira, Jean-François Lombard, Jérôme Billy and Virgile Ancely are the versatile vocal quartet brought together by Jerôme Correas, alive to the daunting and frequently crazy characterisations demanded by Lully and Molière.

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December 2016

The performers throw themselves into it with engaging gusto. Correas encourages what he calls ‘parlé-chanté’ for the comic scenes, at which tenor Jérôme Billy and bass Virgile Ancely excel as doctors, lawyers and provincial bourgeois…Correas presides over it all with brilliant wit and deep sensitivity

January 2017

Opera lovers intrigued by how the Florentine-born Giovanni Battista Lulli metamorphosed into Jean-Baptiste Lully, the architect of French opera, will find much of interest on this CD … an interesting and entertaining disc

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