Katalógové číslo:
ALPHA 824
Autori:
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, Antonio Sacchini, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, Johann Christian Bach, Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, Luigi Cherubini, Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
Interpreti:
Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge, Sandrine Piau, Véronique Gens
1 Monsigny: Où suis-je ?… (from La Belle Arsène)
2 Edelmann, J-F: Mais Thésée est absent… (from Ariane dans l'isle de Naxos)
3 Bach, J C: Me infelice che intendo… (from La Clemenza di Scipione, Op. 14)
4 Gluck: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (from La clemenza di Tito)
5 Gluck: Divinités du Styx (from Alceste)
6 Loiseau de Persuis: Ô divinité tutélaire… (from Fanny Morna, ou l'Écossaise)
7 Grétry: Dès notre enfance unis tous deux… (from L'Embarras des richesses)
8 Cherubini: Un moment à l’autel… (from Démophoon)
9 Sacchini, A: Barbare Amour, tyran des cœurs… (from Renaud)
10 Grétry: Cher objet de ma pensée… (from Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les mœurs du bon vieux tems)
11 Dalayrac: Ciel protecteur des malheureux… (from Camille, ou Le souterrain)
Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens have a longstanding rapport and dreamed of making a recording together. Here they pay tribute to two singers who, like them, were born within a year of each other, Mme Dugazon (1755-1821) and Mme Saint-Huberty (1756-1812): both enjoyed triumphant careers in Paris, inspiring numerous librettists and composers. Gluck even nicknamed Saint-Huberty ‘Madamela- Ressource’, while ‘a Dugazon’ became a generic name for the roles of naïve girls in love, and later of comical mothers. Rivals? They very likely were, given the quarrelsome spirit of the operatic world of the time, even if they never crossed paths on stage. Intermingling airs and duets, Piau and Gens here play the heroines of Gluck, Grétry, Monsigny, J. C. Bach, Piccinni, Edelmann and Cherubini. Developed in collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, this programme on the cusp between Classicism and pre-Romanticism is very much the heart of the repertory championed by Julien Chauvin’s Le Concert de la Loge.