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Throughout the first half of the 18th century many French composers ventured into the composition of Cantatas, creating a vast repertoire of approximately eight hundred works in this particular genre. Unfortunately, even though this extraordinary group of compositions includes many excellent pieces, and even some masterpieces, it hasn’t as yet attracted enough attention from either musicologists or performers.
Modern performance editions and representative recordings are rare, and the majority of the repertoire remains totally unknown to the public nowadays. If Nicolas Bernier was the most prolific, having forty cantatas published, and Jean-Philippe Rameau the most famous – at least nowadays – the best composers of French Cantatas are without any doubt the ones represented on this recording.
Louis-Antoine Dornel: Concert de simphonie No. 5
I. Prelude
II. Fugue
III. Gavotte I-II
IV. Gigue
Andre Campra: Le jaloux
Symphonie: Gracieusement
Recitative: Taisez vous, taisez vous
Aria: Est ce la le prix, que devoit attendre
Recitative: O soupirs: O transports entre nous confondus!
Aria: Goutons, goutons la vengeance
Recitative: Non, venges moi grands Dieux!
Aria: Triste depit, foible secours
Recitative: Pour bannir de mon coeur son importune image
Aria: Someil, vien, soulage les maux que je sens
Recitative: Ou suis-je! O reveil effroyable!
Louis-Antoine Dornel: Concert de simphonie No. 6
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Reflexion
IV. Gavotte I-II
V. Sarabande en rondeau
VI. Gigue
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault: Pigmalion
Recitative: Pigmalion paya cher l'avantage
Aria: Amour, quelle cruelle flame
Recitative: Je ne puis jamais etre aime
Aria: Reine de l'amoureux empire
Recitative: Pigmalion obtient par sa plainte touchante
Aria: Vous, qu'une maitresse insensible
Louis-Antoine Dornel: Concert de simphonie No. 2
I. Vivement
II. Lentement
III. Fugue: Vivement
Philippe Courbois: Orphee
Recitative: O ciel! Disoit Orphee
Lentement: Je voy deja le terrible rivage
Aria: Dieu redoute qui regnes sur les ombres
Recitative: A ces accords melodieux
Aria: Peut on refuser la victoire
Recitative: Deja loin des forets du paisible Elisee
I. Prelude