New Chamber Opera Ensemble, Gary Cooper - Rameau: Complete Cantatas (1998)

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Artist: New Chamber Opera Ensemble, Gary Cooper
Title: Rameau: Complete Cantatas
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: ASV Digital
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 02:12:19
Total Size: 656 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1
Orphee
1. Recitatif - Air tres gai
2. Reciitatif - Air gracieux
3. Recitatif accompagne - Air
4. Recitatif - Air gai
Aquilon et Orithie (revised version)
5. Recitatif - Air un peu gai
6. Recitatif - Air vivement
7. Recitatif - Air gracieusement et un peu pique
Les Amants Trahis
8. Recitatif- Duo
9. Recitatif - Air
10. Recitatif en Duo - Air & Duo
11. Recitatif - Air
12. Recitatif - Air
13. LRecitatif - Duo
Cantate pour le Jour de la Saint-Louis
14. Prelude- Recitatif - Air - Andante
15. Recitatif- Air gracieux et vif
16. Recitatif- Air vif

CD 2
Aquilon et Orithie (original version)
1. Rceitatif- Air un peu gai
2. Recitatif- Air vivmeent
3. Recitatif - Air gracieusement et un pei pique
Le Berger Fidele
4. Recitatif - Air plaintif
5. Recitatif - Air gai
6. Recitatif accompagne - Air vif et gracieux
L'Impatience
7. Recitatif - Air gai
8. Recitatif - Air tendre
9. Recitatif - Air leger
Thetis
10. Prelude gravement
11. Recitatif - Air vivement
12. Recitatif - Air leger
13. Recitatif - Air gracieusement et sans lenteur
14. Cantate pour le Jour de la Saint-Louis- Air vif (version 2)

Performers:
Rachel Elliot - soprano
James Gilchrist - tenor
Roderick Williams - baritone
Thomas Guthrie - bass
New Chamber Opera Ensemble
Conductor: Gary Cooper

The New Chamber Opera Ensemble made an impact upon me a year ago with its first recording for ASV of Charpentier’s Le mariage forcé and Les fous divertissements. Now it follows that release with a two-disc set of Rameau’s complete cantatas – seven of them, with two versions of Aquilon et Orithie – and it is another fine effort that puts them at the very forefront of the youngest generation of practitioners of period-style performance. Each cantata is a beautifully distilled scene, rather more than mere proving ground for Rameau’s operas (all but the Cantata for St Louis’s Day, of around 1740, predate them). And as one might expect there are many delights to be found in the instrumentation, a department in which Rameau excelled all his contemporaries. Gary Cooper, who directs from the harpsichord, shapes every phrase with a sure instinct and unfailing elegance, knowing exactly when to push the music onward, when to indulge his listeners, and his vocal team – Rachel Elliott, James Gilchrist, Roderick Williams and Thomas Guthrie – sing with the easy flowing lines and deft ornamentation that this lovely music demands. Stephen Pettitt

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