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Les divertissements de Versailles

Great operatic scenes

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

A delightful anthology and strongly recommended for a first taste of this quintessentially French Baroque composer.

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$15.00

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No digital booklet included

Contents

Lully: Psyché

Work length2:39
$2.60
$3.40
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Prelude

Track length0:52
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"Chantons les plaisirs charmants" [Chorus]

Track length1:47
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Lully: L'Amour Médecin : "Quittons notre vaine querelle" [La Comédie, La Musique, Le Ballet]

Work length3:37
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  • Sophie Daneman (tenor), Rinat Shaham (tenor), Olivier Lallouette (bass)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Georges Dandin : "Chantons tous de l'Amour" [Bacchus, Cloris, Berger, Chorus]

Work length6:52
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  • Rinat Shaham (tenor), Sophie Daneman (tenor), Laurent Slaars (soprano), Emmanuelle Halimi (tenor), François Bazola (bass), Isabelle Obadia (tenor), Cyril Auvity (countertenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Armide : "Enfin il est en ma puissance" "Venez, secondez mes désirs" [Armide]

Work length5:16
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  • Rinat Shaham (tenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Les Plaisirs de l'Ile Enchantée : "Chère Climène, dis-moi" [Cloris, Climène]

Work length1:58
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  • Isabelle Obadia (tenor), Emmanuelle Halimi (tenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Excerpt, Lully: Isis

Work length13:40
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  • Sophie Daneman (tenor), Isabelle Obadia (tenor), Emmanuelle Halimi (tenor), Cyril Auvity (countertenor), Boris Grappe (bass)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

"Je vous aime, Nymphe charmante" "Aimons sans cesse" "Faut-il qu'en vains discours" "Courons à la chasse" "Je ne puis vous quitter" Plainte du Dieu Pan [Pan, Syrinx, Mercure, Chorus]

Track length12:15
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"Aimez, profitez du temps" [Nymphs]

Track length1:25
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Lully: Georges Dandin : "Laisse-nous en repos, Philène!" [Climène, Cloris, Tircis, Philène]

Work length4:21
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  • Laurent Slaars (soprano), Isabelle Obadia (tenor), Emmanuelle Halimi (tenor), Cyril Auvity (countertenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Isis : Prelude "L'hiver qui nous tourmente" [Chorus] "Laizzez-moi, cruelle Furie!" [Io, La Furie] "Ah! quelle peine de trembler" [Chorus]

Work length4:07
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  • Sophie Daneman (tenor), Paul Agnew (countertenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Isis : "Que le feu des forges s'allume" [Chorus] "Quel déluge de feu" [Io, La Furie, Chorus]

Work length3:01
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  • Sophie Daneman (tenor), Paul Agnew (countertenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Ballet des Muses : "Trop indiscret Amour" [Euridice]

Work length5:06
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  • Sophie Daneman (tenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Roland : "Ah! j'attendrai longtemps" "Je suis trahi!" "Ah! je suis descendu dans la nuit du tombeau" [Roland]

Work length10:14
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Album only
  • Olivier Lallouette (bass)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Lully: Armide : Ritournelle "Armide, vous m'allez quitter" [Renaud, Armide, Un amant fortuné] Passacaille "Les plaisirs ont choisi" [Chorus]

Work length17:02
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Album only
  • Rinat Shaham (tenor), Paul Agnew (countertenor), Cyril Auvity (countertenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie