ANDRÉ CAMPRA Le Carnaval de Venise Opéra-ballet. Paris, 1699
Le Concert SpirituelHervé Niquet
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Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet
Salomé Haller, dessus Marina De Liso, bas-dessus Andrew Foster-Williams, basse-taille Alain Buet, basse-taille Mathias Vidal, haute-contre Sarah Tynan, dessus Blandine Staskiewicz, bas-dessus Luigi De Donato, basse
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Recorded in Paris (Salle Colonne) in January 2011 Engineered by Manuel Mohino Produced by Dominique Daigremont Executive producer: Carlos Céster Performance edition prepared by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV) Design: Valentín Iglesias Booklet texts: Benoît Dratwicki & Barbara Nestola (CMBV) English - Français - Deutsch - Español
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ANDRÉ CAMPRA (1660-1744)
Le Carnaval de Venise
CD I [70:14]
01 Ouverture
Prologue
02 Scène 1 : Hastez-vous... (L’Ordonnateur, le Chœur) 03 La descente de Minerve 04 Scène 2 : Je quitte sans regret... (Minerve) 05 Récitatif : Pour attirer les yeux... (Minerve) 06 Scène 3 : Servons le fils... (Le Chœur) 07 Air pour les Arts 08 Deuxième Air. Rondeau 09 Récitatif : Les Dieux seuls en ce jour... (L’Ordonnateur) 10 Premier Air 11 Second Air 12 Premier et second Passepied 13 Récitatif : Jeunes cœurs échapez à la fureur... (Minerve) 14 Air : Celebrez un Roy plein de gloire... (Minerve, le Chœur) 15 Récitatif : Vous qui suivez mes pas... (Minerve) 16 On reprend l’ouverture pour l’entracte
Acte premier
17 Scène 1 : J’ay fait l’aveu... (Léonore) 18 Scène 2 : Dans ce beau jour... (Isabelle, Léonore) 19 Scène 3 : Puis-je croire... (Isabelle, Léonore, Léandre) 20 Scène 4 : La Vénitienne 21 La Villanelle 22 Scène 5 : Vous brillez à mes yeux... (Léandre, Isabelle) 23 La Vénitienne pour l’entracte
Acte deuxième
24 Scène 1 : Vous qui ne souffrez point... (Rodolphe) 25 Scène 2 : Malgré toute l’ardeur... (Léonore, Rodolphe) 26 Duo : Que l’Amour dans nos cœurs... (Léonore, Rodolphe) 27 Scène 3 : Marche de la Fortune 28 Récitatif : Je suis fille du sort... (La Fortune) 29 Premier Air pour les Suivants de la Fortune 30 Second Air pour les Suivants de la Fortune 31 Premier et second Canaries 32 Récitatif : Vos chants ont eu pour moy... (La Fortune) 33 Scène 4 : De ses voiles épais, la nuit couvre les Cieux... (Rodolphe) 34 Scène 5 : Doux charme des ennuis... (Léandre) 35 Trio : Luci belle, dormite... (Léandre, deux musiciens) 36 Scène 6 : Mi dice la speranza... (Isabelle) 37 Scène 7 : Je me suis fait trop longtems violence... (Rodolphe) 38 Scène 8 : Je cede à mon impatience... (Isabelle, Rodolphe) 39 Scène 9 : Pour trouver un Amant... (Rodolphe) 40 On reprend la Villanelle pour l’entracte
CD II [58:47]
Acte troisième
01 Scène 1 : Transports de vengeance & de haine... (Léonore) 02 Scène 2 : A la fin vous estes vangée... (Rodolphe, Léonore) 03 Scène 3 : Laissons de ses regrets calmer la violence... (Rodolphe) 04 Scène 4 : Marche des Gondoliers 05 Gavotte 06 Rigaudon 07 Scène 5 : Mes yeux, fermez-vous à jamais... (Isabelle) 08 Scène 6 : Ciel ! que voulez-vous... (Léandre, Isabelle)
Orfeo nell’inferi
09 Scena prima : Sinfonia 10 Aria : Tartarei Numi, all’armi, all’armi... (Plutone, Coro) 11 Sinfonia 12 Scena seconda : Dominator dell’ombre... (Orfeo, Plutone) 13 Scena terza : Vittoria, mio cuore... (Orfeo, Coro) 14 Aria per gli Spirti folletti 15 Scena quarta : Al lampo... (Un’Ombra fortunata) 16 Scena quinta : Lungi da me, martiri... (Euridice) 17 Aria : Vezzi, lusinghe, ministri di beltà... (Euridice) 18 Scena sesta : Deh! per pietà mira, Orfeo, chi t’adora... (Orfeo, Euridice) 19 Scena settima : Fuggi temerario... (Plutone, Orfeo, Euridice) 20 Scena ottava : Bella, non piangere... (Plutone) 21 Aria : Si canti, si goda... (Plutone, Coro)
Le Bal, dernier divertissement
22 Marche du Carnaval 23 Récitatif : L’Hyver a beau s’armer d’Aquilons furieux... (Le Carnaval) 24 Bourrée 25 Premier et deuxième menuet en rondeau 26 Récitatif : Je veux joindre à ces jeux... (Le Carnaval) 27 Chaconne 28 Air des Masques chinois 29 Air : Per piacer... (Euridice) 30 Forlana 31 Air : Chantez, dansez, profitez... (Le Carnaval, le Chœur)
About this CD
At the dawn of a new century when André Campra was busy writing his Carnaval de Venise (1699), was the composer aware that he would be passing onto the Académie Royale de Musique a fabulous and legendary work that would remain without successors? And whilst the court of the ageing Louis XIV was endeavouring to conserve the spirit of the Grand Siècle at Versailles, Paris was already humming with the new ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. With its prologue and three festive acts, with its exotic dances and its virtuosic arias in Italian, Le Carnaval de Venise is one of the most original experiences to be had in musical drama from the time, one which was to earn Campra the reputation as the new maestro of French opera, as well as of being the musical eulogist for the Regency. In a magisterial act of conflation, this composer blends the styles of Lully, Lalande, Monteverdi and Cavalli and manages also to foreshadow Handel and Rameau. He dreams up a multi-hued score, capable unquestionably of recapturing in Paris both the carnival spirit in general and that of the legendary Venice in particular.
With this Carnaval de Venise Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet add a new title to their tireless work of recovering operatic jewels from those prodigious 17th and 18th centuries, amongst which we can mention here Proserpine by Lully, Sémélé by Marais and Andromaque by Grétry, all released on Glossa.
It is not only discerning music lovers around the globe who are giving a warm welcome to the recordings which are being published on Glossa; critical approval in the specialist media has been joining in as well. One example of the latter is the newly-instigated International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) which, for its inaugural 2011 edition, has chosen no less than nine of Glossa’s recent releases in its initial nominations. [read more...]
Hervé Niquet is far less interested in being known as a Baroque music specialist than for his passionate interest in all of French music, especially its vocal and lyrical compositions and nowadays he is as liable to be found directing a symphony orchestra as his own period instrument ensemble Le Concert Spirituel. It may come, for some, as a surprise to find Niquet teaming up with the Brussels Philharmonic to record Debussy but this future release will mark the inauguration of a new adventure for Niquet and Glossa focusing on the music associated with the Prix de Rome competition which drew in scores of leading French composers all the way from 1803 through 1968. [read more...]
For its first DVD release Glossa has chosen a veritable spectacular, combining the strong creative ideas represented by one of its established artistic teams in Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel, the fabulously funny and hugely-successful French comedy duo of Shirley and Dino (Corinne and Gilles Benizio in real life), a film director in Olivier Simonnet with proven experience in the music of the Baroque and a masterpiece of a dramatick operatic score in Henry Purcell’s King Arthur. [read more...]
Taking a leading role in the revival of tragédies lyriques (or tragédies en musique), the best of the French Baroque opera tradition, is a long, daunting (and expensive) challenge but one which Hervé Niquet has been keen to accept. Present as a singer in the chorus of Les Arts Florissants in 1987 when William Christie put on Lully’s Atys, Niquet formed his own ensemble, Le Concert Spirituel that same year. Since that time he has balanced his own endeavours to stage (and record) key French tragédies with his other musical interests, which extend from Monteverdi to Purcell and Handel (soon to be reissued – now on SACD – is Niquet’s recording of the Fireworks and Water Music suites) right the way through to later composers such as Schumann, Gounod and d’Indy.[read more...]