Opéra Baroque

Les plus belles scènes de l'Opéra Baroque - Baroque Opera, The most famous scenes
Various Ensemble
Harmonia mundi HMX 290 869

Contents:

    Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
  1. Opening toccata

  2. Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
  3. Illustravi o cieli (Ulisse / Penelope)

  4. Claudio Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea
  5. Addio Roma (Octavia)

  6. Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto
  7. Piante ombrose (Calisto) / In recovro più ombroso (Giove)

  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide
  9. Enfin il est en ma puissance (Armide)

  10. Jean-Baptiste Lully: Atys
  11. Sleeping scene: Dormons, dormons

  12. Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Le Malade Imaginaire
  13. Zerbinetti (an old woman)

  14. Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
  15. Thy hand Belinda / When I am laid in earth (Dido)

  16. Henry Purcell: King Arthur
  17. What Power are thou (Genius)

  18. Georg Friedrich Haendel: Flavio
  19. Rompo i lacci (Guido)

  20. Georg Friedrich Haendel: Giulio Cesare
  21. Al lampo dell'armi (Cesare)

  22. Carl Heinrich Graun: Cleopatra & Cesare
  23. Tra le procelle assorto (Cleopatra)

  24. Georg Philipp Telemann: Orpheus
  25. Trà speranza e trà timore (Orpheus
    So hat die Rache denn gesieget (Orasia)

  26. Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor & Pollux
  27. (Telaïre) Tristes apprêts (Télaïre)
    (Orasia) So hat die Rache denn gesieget

  28. Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes
  29. Danse des Sauvages: / Forêts paisibles

Playing time: 76' 52"

Excerpts from (original release):
[1] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1553/54 [CDx2]Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, favola in musica
[2] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1427/29 [CDx3] Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patriaa
[3] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1330/32 [CDx3] Claudio Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea
[4] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1515/17 [CDx3] Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto
[5] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1456/57 [CDx2] Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide
[6] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1257/59 [CDx3] Jean-Baptiste Lully: Atys
[7] Harmonia mundi HMC 1336 [CD] Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Le Malade imaginaire
[8] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 5173 [CD] Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
[9] Harmonia mundi HM 252 / 253 [LPx2] Henry Purcell: King Arthur - Deller Consort
[10] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1312/13 [CDx2] George Fridric Handel: Flavio
[11] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1385/87 [CDx3] George Fridric Handel: Giulio Cesare
[12] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1561/63 [CDx3] Carl Heinrich Graun: Cleopatra & Cesare
[13] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1618/19 [CDx2] Georg Philipp Telemann: Orpheus
[14] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1435/37 [CDx3] Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor & Pollux
[15] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1367/69 [CDx3] Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes

Recording site and date:
Various sites [1978 - 1997]

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Pierre-F. Roberge