La musique au temps des Castrats

La musique au temps des Castrats - Music from the age of Castratos
Various performers
Astrée (Auvidis) "le Club" E 8552

Content:

    Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
  1. Act II, scene 2: Les Champs-Élysées
    1. Symphonie descriptive
    2. Danse
    3. Arioso

    2. Antonio Vivaldi: Montezuma
  2. Act III, scene 10: Aria « Dov'è la figlia »

    3. Gregorio Allegri
  3. Motet (a 3v & continuo): De ore prudentis

    4. Antonio Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus
  4. De torrente

    5. Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  5. Salve Regina (a 3v), H 23

    6. Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
  6. Act III, scene 1: Che faró senza Euridice ?

    7. Antonio Vivaldi: Montezuma
  7. Act I, scene 2: Aria « Gl'oltraggidella sorte »

    8. Gregorio Allegri
  8. Motet (a 3v & continuo): Repleti sunt omnes

    9. Antonio Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus
  9. Sicut erat - Amen

    10. Ricardo Broschi, inserted in Artaserse by J. A. Hasse
  10. Aria « Son qual nave ch'agitata »

Playing time: 47' 31"

Performers, recording site and date:
See links below;
Rel.: 11/22/1994

Excerpts (from original release)
[1], [6] Astrée (Auvidis) E 8538 [CDx2] Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (James Bowman & La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy - Jean-Claude Malgoire, dir.)
[2], [7] Astrée (Auvidis) E 8501 [CDx2] Antonio Vivaldi: Montezuma (Dominique Visse & La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy - Jean-Claude Malgoire, dir.)
[3], [8] Astrée (Auvidis) E 8524 [CD] Gregorio Allegri: Miserere, Missa Vidi turbam magnum, Motets
[4], [9] Astrée (Auvidis) E 8520 [CD] Antonio Vivaldi: Vêpres pour la nativité de la Vierge (James Bowman & La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy - Jean-Claude Malgoire, dir.)
[5] Astrée (Auvidis) E 8713 [CD] Marc Antoine Charpentier (ca 1643-1704): Canticum ad Beatam Virginem Mariam
[10] Travelling (Auvidis) K 1005 [CD] Farinelli, il castrato: (original film soundtrack) (Ewa Mallas-Godlewska, Derek Lee Ragin, Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, dir.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

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Pierre-F. Roberge