Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Opera Arias

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Devieilhe has a clear, flexible voice with easy high notes. She's an agile, expressive and stylish singer, and a generous team-player...The star performance here, however, comes from Kossenko... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: 2564637284
Label: Erato
Length: 79 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

May 2014

Opera Choice
Gramophone Awards

2014

Finalist - Baroque Vocal
Diapason d’Or de l’Année

2014

Winner - Musique baroque vocale

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Indes Galantes

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Aimery Lefèvre (bass-baritone)
Les Ambassadeurs, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris
Alexis Kossenko

"Forêts paisibles" (Les sauvages)

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Rameau: "Feuillages verts naissez" (Brunette)

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

Excerpt, Rameau: Pygmalion

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Sabine Devieilhe
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

Ouverture

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Paladins

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

"Est-il beau?" (Nérine)

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Rameau: Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, ou Les Dieux d'Égypte

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Sabine Devieilhe
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

Contredanse

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Indes Galantes

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

"Viens, Hymen" (Phani)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Naïs

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

"Je ne sais quel ennui me presse" (Une bergerè)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Boréades

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Les Ambassadeurs
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"Un horizon serein" (Alphise)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Paladins

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor)
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Alexis Kossenko

"Pour voltiger" (Nérine, Atis)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

Ritournelle

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Excerpt, Rameau: Anacreon

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Les Ambassadeurs
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"Tendre Amour" (Chloé)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Zoroastre

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Sabine Devieilhe
Les Ambassadeurs
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Ballet figuré

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Indes Galantes

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor), Aimery Lefèvre (baritone)
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

Scène finale de l'entrée des Incas

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Excerpt, Rameau: Zaïs

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs
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"Coulez mes pleurs" (Zélidie)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Dardanus

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Sabine Devieilhe
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

Sommeil

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Indes Galantes

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris
Alexis Kossenko

"Vaste empire des mers" (Emilie)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Zoroastre

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Sabine Devieilhe
Les Ambassadeurs
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Air tendre en rondeau

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Excerpt, Rameau: Castor et Pollux

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

"Tristes apprêts" (Télaïre)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Fêtes d'Hébé

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Sabine Devieilhe
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

Tambourins

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Excerpt, Rameau: Platée

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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko

"Aux langueurs d'Apollon" (Air de la Folie)

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Excerpt, Rameau: Les Indes Galantes

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Les Ambassadeurs
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Chaconne

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"Régnez, plaisirs et jeux" (Zima)

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Sabine Devieilhe, the young French lyric-coloratura soprano is a name to watch. Over the 2013-14 Paris season she will star in Delibes’ Lakmé at the Opéra Comique and make her debut at the Opéra as the dazzling Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte. She has been described as a singer “whose upper register, like her virtuosity, appears limitless, while her verbal sense and dramatic engagement are breathtaking”. Both her achievement and her potential were recognised at the 2013 Victoires de la Musique Classique, France’s equivalent of the Grammys, where she won the award in the category for ‘Révélation artiste lyrique’.

In 2012 she appeared at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, and triumphed as Lakmé in Montpellier. Her plans also include the Queen of the Night and Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra de Lyon, and, further in the future, Bellini’s La sonnambula (which she has already sung in concert), Adele in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff.

Sabine Devieilhe studied cello and musicology and sang in the chorus of the Opéra de Rennes before she entered the Paris Conservatoire, where in 2011 she received First Prize. She has performed with a number of important ensembles, particularly in the field of historically informed performance; these include Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski, Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, Les Cris de Paris under Geoffroy Jourdain, L’Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing under Jean-Claude Malgoire and Les Ambassadeurs under Alexis Kossenko, with whom she has recorded this new album of Rameau.

Conductor and flautist Alexis Kossenko was born in Nice and the international line-up of musicians in Les Ambassadeurs is the realisation of a dream inspired by the eclectic Dresden Hofkapelle of Bach’s time: to bring together period instruments to perform a broad repertoire, ranging from Bach, Rameau and Handel through Mozart and Rossini to Stravinsky and Debussy.

While the operatic music of Handel and his Italian contemporaries is now very much in vogue, French Baroque opera – which favours dramatic recitative, high tenors (rather than countertenors), subtler virtuosity and integrated ballets – remains less widely exposed. This Rameau collection features numbers from operas such as Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes Galantes, Les Boréades, Pygmalion, Les Paladins, Naïs, Anacréon, Zoroastre, Zaïs, Dardanus, Castor et Pollux and Platée. Joining Sabine Devieilhe, Alexis Kossenko and Les Ambassadeurs are other young singers: the French baritone Florian Sempey, the British tenor Samuel Boden and Le Jeune Chœur de Paris.

Reviews

May 2014

Devieilhe has a clear, flexible voice with easy high notes. She's an agile, expressive and stylish singer, and a generous team-player...The star performance here, however, comes from Kossenko and his orchestra...Delightful from start to finish, with animated contributions from Le Jeune Choeur de Paris, this is a stunning debut disc.

February 2014

Devieilhe gets everything right, with excellent support from Les Ambassadeurs.

February 2014

I have little but praise for a captivating disc which reveals Rameau in all his varied and colourful finery. Devieilhe has a light and airy voice and an athletic technique with which to do justice to the composer's many technical demands...A winner!

30th January 2014

This disc not only demonstrates the versatility of Rameau, but also that of Sabine Devieilhe...It is a bit unfair to talk about highlights, because this disc as a whole is excellent.

5th January 2014

The chief pleasures here are the outstanding contributions of Alexis Kossenko’s period band...Devieilhe’s metallic baroque soubrette...turns shrill and wobbly under pressure. Still, she understands the style, and is characterful in her cackling of La Folie’s coloratura, from Platée.

Opera Now

Devieilhe’s voice is beautifully clear and full, cultured but young and natural, lyrical and agile...a creation of shapely musicianship, constantly engaged with the words. Likewise the accompaniments by Les Ambassadeurs, led by Alexis Kossenko, are lively, engaged, thought-out and beautifully balanced.

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