Lully: Ballets & récits italiens [Import]

Jean-Baptiste Lully (Composer), Fabio Bonizzoni (Conductor), La Risonanza (Orchestra), Emanuela Galli (Performer), Yetzabel Arias Fernández (Performer), Stefanie True (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Emanuela Galli, Yetzabel Arias Fernández, Stefanie True
• Orchestra: La Risonanza
• Conductor: Fabio Bonizzoni
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
• Audio CD (September 29, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Glossa
• ASIN: B002OR185I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #690,153 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. La raillerie, ballet, LWV 11: Ouverture - Ritournelle - Trio 'L'un dell'altro ognun si burla'

2. Psyché, tragédie-ballet, LWV 45: Air: 'Deh, piangete al pianto mio'

3. Alcidiane, ballet, LWV 9: Chaconne des Maures

4. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, comédie-ballet, LWV 43: Quatrième entrée - Air: 'Di rigori armata il seno'

5. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, comédie-ballet, LWV 43: Entrée des Scaramouches - Chaconne

6. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, comédie-ballet, LWV 43: Duo "Bel temp che vola" - Réjouissance

7. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, comédie-ballet, LWV 43: Chaconne

8. Amour malade (L'Amor malato), ballet, LWV 8: Ritournelle - Air: 'Que les jaloux sont importuns' - Ritournelle

9. Amour malade (L'Amor malato), ballet, LWV 8: Air: "E che sarebbe amor senza cochette?"

10. Alcidiane, ballet, LWV 9: Ouverture - Ritournelle - Air: "Amiam dunque, infin ch'è lecito"

11. Flore, ballet, LWV 40: Plainte de Vénus: 'Ah, quelle cruaute'

12. Alcidiane, ballet, LWV 9: Petite chaconne - Duo: "Cede al vostro valore"

13. Les amours déguisés, ballet, LWV 21: Plainte d'Armide: 'Ah, Rinaldo, e dove sei?'

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive airs and ballets, December 2, 2009

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Stephen Midgley (Tarbrax, West Calder, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lully: Ballets & récits italiens (Audio CD)

Here is a recital of Lully airs and ballet movements with a difference. Far removed from the larger-scale orchestral performances of Lully's music which have been common on disc in the past, this programme is designed more in the manner of a 17th-century musical soirée, with selected airs and instrumental movements from various operas and ballets performed by a small chamber ensemble.

For the occasion La Risonanza, one of a number of extremely talented early music ensembles who have been turning up regularly on the enterprising Glossa label, are ideally suited to this repertory. Here they offer a nicely balanced and contrasted programme which also brings us some delicious duet and trio singing from the three sopranos Emanuela Galli, Yetzabel Arias Fernández and Stefanie True; Galli has the lion's share of the solo airs, but all three singers do a splendid job. The instrumental group deliver delightfully pointed and sprightly playing throughout, with generous ornamentation in exemplary baroque style, and they sound as if they are thoroughly enjoying themselves. In fact their playing is so addictive that in several numbers they'll have you wanting to leave your chair and dance around the room - try, for example, some of the movements of the Ballet des Nations from "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme".

One magazine review I saw mentioned that there are an awful lot of chaconnes (four, in fact) in this recital; but if, like me, you suffer from incurable chaconne dependency, then you certainly won't be complaining - least of all about the so-called Petite chaconne (11 minutes) from "Alcidiane", performed with brilliant style and poignancy by the ensemble and with truly gorgeous duetting from Galli and Fernández. For baroque fans seeking a taste of Lully's music for the stage, but not necessarily wanting to sit through a whole opera, this disc offers a succession of beautiful melodies played and sung with infectious enthusiasm under Fabio Bonizzoni's inspired direction; altogether, it's a complete success and a delight to the ear.