Charpentier: Médée

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Médée
Les Arts florissants - William Christie, dir.
Harmonia mundi HMC 1139 / 41 [LPx3]
Harmonia mundi HMC 40 1139 / 41 [Cass. x3]
Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1139 / 41 [CDx3]
Harmonia mundi "musique d'abord" 290 1139 / 41 [CDx3]

Contents:

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier

    Médée H 491

Playing time: 61' 08" + 59' 01" + 61' 06" = 3h 1' 15"

Performers:
Les Arts florissants
Jill Feldman (soprano - Médée), Jacques Bona (bass - voice, Cron) Agnès Mellon (soprano - Créuse), Gilles Ragon (tenor - Jason) Philippe Cantor (baritone - voice, Oronte), Sophie Boulin (soprano - Nérine) François Fauché (bass - voice, Chef du peuple, Vengeance), Marie-Claude Vallin (soprano - Victoire, 1er fantôme), Catherine Bignalet (soprano - Gloire - Jalousie), Dominique Visse (counter-tenor - Berger, Captif), Michel Laplénie (tenor - Arcas, Jalousie), Françoise Paut (soprano - Amour), Monique Zanetti (soprano - Cleone), Catherine Molmerret (soprano - 2ème fantôme)
William Christie, dir.

Recording site and date:
Théâtre du Château de Versailles, Versailles, France [04/1984];
Rel.: 1984

Excerpts:
[ ] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1316 / 18 [CDx3] Les Arts florissants - 10 ans: Moulinié Charpentier, Lully... [et al.]
[ ] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 605 / 607 [CDx3] Opéra Baroque: les moments forts.
[ ] Harmonia mundi "HM-Plus" HMP 390 802 [CD] Grands compositeurs baroques - Marc-Antoine Charpentier
[ ] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 801 / 810 [CDx10] Prélude baroque

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

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