Alpha - up to 45% off
Until 20th November 2024, we're offering up to 45% off all recordings on the Alpha label including downloads. Please note that some titles are while stocks last and will be removed from the offer once sold out.
Alpha - up to 45% off, Lully (composer)
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Special offer. Lully, Charpentier & Desmarets: Passion
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble Les Surprises, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Words are Gens’s secret weapon. She brings out their meanings and sonic qualities like no other singer: spiked rhythms register her vitriol, towering anger splits open her vowels on top notes... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Special offer. Lully: Persée 1770
Mathias Vidal, Hélène Guilmette, Katherine Watson, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean Teitgen, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Marie Lenormand, Cyrille Dubois, Marie Kalinine, Thomas Dolié, Zachary Wilder
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet’s musical direction is admirably fluent. The orchestral playing and choral singing are magnificent throughout in a suitably resonant recording…Katherine Watson as Mérope stands... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Record Review, 25th March 2017, Recording of the Week
2 CDs
Original price ($38.25) Reduced price $30.60Downloads
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Solo Recital Recording
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Special offer. Lully: Armide 1778
Katherine Watson (soprano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Chantal Santon Jeffrey (soprano), Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Tassis Christoyannis (bass), Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
The story is a splendid vehicle for Véronique Gens…She is in glorious voice...Van Mechelen is ideal as his namesake, mellifluous and attentive to the text. The other singers, familiar specialists... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Recording of the Month
2 CDs + Book
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Special offer. Lully: Dies Irae, De Profondis & Te Deum
Choeur De Chambre Namur, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón
These works demand a conductor with theatrical instincts, and Leonardo García Alarcón certainly supplies that...his ability to shape expressive gestures within the music through added rests,... — More…
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Special offer. D'Anglebert - Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully
Céline Frisch (harpsichord)
Café Zimmermann
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Special offer. Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum
Le Poème Harmonique, Capella Cracoviensis, Vincent Dumestre, Amel Brahim Djelloul, Benoît Arnould, Aurore Bucher, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Jeffrey Thompson, Frédéric Rivoal, Sylvia Abramowicz
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Special offer. Doux Silence
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Julie Roset, Lucile Richardot
François Lazarevitch
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The actors are splendid...This engaging issue deserves wide circulation — More…
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Special offer. L'Opéra des Opéras
Katherine Watson (soprano), Karine Deshayes (mezzo), Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
If the story is thin, the music stylishly performed by Le Concert Spirituel is often magnificent…If the orchestra, particularly the principal flautist and trumpeter, rather overshadow the soloists,... — More…
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