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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Scene 1: Ritournelle | |||
| 2. Scene 1: "Peut-on être à la fois si tendre et si volage?" | |||
| 3. Scene 1: "Ranimez-vous..." | |||
| 4. Scene 1: "Toi qui vis mon erreur" | |||
| 5. Scene 1: "Mais j'entends les bergers que ta fête rassemble" | |||
| 6. Scene 2: Air gracieux | |||
| 7. Scene 2: "Hâtons-nous..." | |||
| 8. Scene 2: Menuets | |||
| 9. Scene 3: "Zélide, nos plaisirs n'ont rien qui vous amuse?" | |||
| 10. Scene 3: "Tout languit dans nos bois..." | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Scene 1: Prélude | |||
| 2. Scene 1: "Les Nymphes de Diane approchent de ces lieux" | |||
| 3. Scene 1: "On vient; sous cet épais feuillage" | |||
| 4. Scene 2: Gavottes | |||
| 5. Scene 2: "Ô Diane, pourquoi vous séparer de nous?" | |||
| 6. Scene 3: "Où courez-vous, Nymphe charmante?" | |||
| 7. Scene 3: "Où suis-je?" | |||
| 8. Scene 3: "L'Amour a des appas toujours victorieux" | |||
| 9. Scene 4: "Courons, signalons notre zèle!" | |||
| 10. Scene 5: Air | |||
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La Guirlande ou Les Fleurs Enchantées, acte de ballet
Composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau
with Sophie Daneman, Francois Bazola, Paul Agnew
Conducted by William Christie
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Zéphire ou les Nymphes de Diane, acte de ballet
Composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau
with Rebecca Ockenden, Galle Mechaly
Conducted by William Christie
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Though entitled acte de ballet, these two works are really small operas, since the action is carried on mainly by recitatives and arias. However, there is also a profusion of dances: courtly, gracious, stately as well as lively, sometimes in sets amounting to entire suites. They supplement the chorus's commentary on the action and reflect the characters' mood and state of mind. Both works have idyllic, pastoral settings and very flimsy librettos, the first about love among shepherds and shepherdesses, the second between gods, goddesses, and nymphs. It is Rameau's music that infuses these contrived, artificial characters and situations with vibrant life and human emotions, and it is beautiful, with an unfailing crystalline purity, whether expressing joy, pleading, or nostalgia. The orchestra sets and underlines mood and atmosphere with evocative tone-painting; the winds not only imitate whole choirs of birds, but illustrate sighs and emotions; hunting horns herald the goddess Diana. The performance is exemplary, the sound transparent but not thin, and the dances have a supple, lilting rhythm. The singers negotiate their florid arias with ease and communicate tenderness, passion, remorse, anguish, and forgiveness. In La Guirlande, countertenor Paul Agnew and soprano Sophie Daneman are outstanding; in Zéphyre, whose three parts are all sung by sopranos, the wind-god's voice is much brighter than that of the nymph he courts. Described as among Rameau's lesser works, these two pieces seem to have been neglected unjustly. --Edith Eisler
Though entitled acte de ballet, these two works are really small operas, since the action is carried on mainly by recitatives and arias. However, there is also a profusion of dances: courtly, gracious, stately as well as lively, sometimes in sets amounting to entire suites. They supplement the chorus's commentary on the action and reflect the characters' mood and state of mind. Both works have idyllic, pastoral settings and very flimsy librettos, the first about love among shepherds and shepherdesses, the second between gods, goddesses, and nymphs. It is Rameau's music that infuses these contrived, artificial characters and situations with vibrant life and human emotions, and it is beautiful, with an unfailing crystalline purity, whether expressing joy, pleading, or nostalgia. The orchestra sets and underlines mood and atmosphere with evocative tone-painting; the winds not only imitate whole choirs of birds, but illustrate sighs and emotions; hunting horns herald the goddess Diana. The performance is exemplary, the sound transparent but not thin, and the dances have a supple, lilting rhythm. The singers negotiate their florid arias with ease and communicate tenderness, passion, remorse, anguish, and forgiveness. In La Guirlande, countertenor Paul Agnew and soprano Sophie Daneman are outstanding; in Zéphyre, whose three parts are all sung by sopranos, the wind-god's voice is much brighter than that of the nymph he courts. Described as among Rameau's lesser works, these two pieces seem to have been neglected unjustly. --Edith Eisler
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