Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla & Glaucus [3CD]

Muzyka Barokowa
premiera polska: 2015-12-09
kontynent: Europa
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
Jean-Marie Leclair, a pure product of the 18th century, was at the crossroads of styles, cultivating a virtuosic art. Combining melodies à la française and Italian virtuosity stemming from Corelli and Vivaldi. He was 49 when he undertook his first (and only) lyric tragedy: Scylla et Glaucus. In the greatest French tradition, this work combines sumptuous numbers of sentimental outpourings with frightening scenes of fury and terror, in which the orchestra, with forceful passages, plays a dazzling role. A veritable masterpiece, revealing the obvious influence of Rameau, Scylla et Glaucus left a strong mark on French opera. First performed at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1746, this opera, which had a run of 17 performances and enjoyed great success, was only rediscovered in the 1980s (by John Eliot Gardiner in Lyon). For this re-creation, recorded at the Royal Opera and featuring in the Alpha/ Château de Versailles collection, Sébastien d’Hérin, a connoisseur of Rameau and that era, has surrounded himself with top-notch performers, including the promising amorous duo of Anders Dahlin and Emöke Barath, for a resurrection of what the great musicologist Cuthbert Girdlestone considered ‘probably, along with those of Rameau et Gluck, the finest French opera of the century’.

BBC Music Magazine * * * *
Leclair's only opera is virtually unknown today but, musically, it's a masterpiece…[d’Hérin favours] a more restrained and elegant approach, drawing graceful and animated playing from his crack ensemble…Anders Dahlin makes an ardent Glaucus, his voice lucid and his phrasing eloquent. Emöke Barath's soprano is aptly mellifluous for the role of Scylla…the sheer quality of the music makes this an irresistible disc.

Gramophone Magazine - February 2016
[The music] is excellent and deserves to be better known…Les Nouveaux Caractères under Sébastien d’Hérin sing and play splendidly. Anders J Dahlin, an old hand at this repertoire, is in excellent voice. Emoke Barath catches the tender and fiery sides to Scylla's character perfectly, and Caroline Mutel's summoning of the infernal deities is gripping…a wholehearted recommendation

muzycy:
Les Nouveaux Caractères
Sébastien d’Hérin

utwory:
Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla & Glaucus
CD1: Prologue - Acte 1
CD2: Acte II, Acte III
CD3: Acte IV, Acte V

wydano: 2015
more info: www.outhere-music.com