Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs - Lully: Thesee (2007)

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Artist: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs
Title: Lully: Thesee
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: CPO
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 02:53:17
Total Size: 872 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1
01.Prologue: Overture - 1:51
02. Les Jeux and les Amours (Chorus of Cupids, Graces, Pleasures and Games) - 4:04
03. Revenez, Amours revenez (Venus) - 2:39
04. La descente de Mars - 1:10
05. Que rien ne trouble icy (Mars) - 1:07
06. Les Hautbois - 0:59
07. Partez, allez, volez redoutable Bellonne (Mars, Venus) - 3:42
08. Qu'il passe au gre de ses desirs (Mars, Venus, Chorus, Ceres, Bachus) - 2:59
09. Premiere Air - 0:47
10. Trop heureux qui moissonne (Ceres) - 1:11
11. Second Air - 1:42
12. Pour les plus Fortunez, pour les plus Malheureux (Bachus) - 1:15
13. Qu'il passe au gre de ses desirs (Mars, Venus, Chorus) - 1:51

14.Overture: Entr'Acte - 1:55

15.Act I Scene 1: Avancons, avancons; que rien ne nous estonnie (Chorus of Warriors) - 0:59
16. Scene 2: Quel que soit mon destin (Aegle, Warriors) - 1:11
17. Scene 3: Est-ce aux Atheniens, est-ce au Party contraire (Aegle, Cleone) - 2:49
18. Scene 3: Il faut perir, Il faut perir (Warriors) - 0:32
19. Scene 4: Le Ciel ne veut-il point mettre fin a nos peines? (Aegle, Arcas, Cleone) - 1:17
20. Scene 5: Laissons aller la Princesse (Cleone, Arcas) - 4:08
21. Scene 5: Avancons, avancons; que rien ne nous estonne (Warriors) - 0:59
22. Scene 6: Prions, prions la Deesse (High Priestess of Minerva, Aegle, Cleone) - 0:51
23. Scene 6: Mourez, mourez, perfides Coeurs (Warriors, High Priestess of Minerva, Aegle, Cleone) - 2:33
24. Scene 6: O Minerve! Arrestez la cruelle furie (High Priestess of Minerva, Aegle, Cleone) - 1:35
25. Scene 6: Liberte, liberte (Warriors) - 0:59
26. Scene 6: Prelude - 0:53
27. Scene 7: Les Mutins sont vaincus (King of Athens, High Priestess of Minerva, Attendants) - 1:11
28. Scene 8: Cessez, charmante Aegle, de repandre des larmes (King of Athens, Aegle) - 5:04
29. Scene 9: Prelude: Le Sacrifice - 0:34
30. Scene 9: Cet Empire puissant que vostre soin conserve (High Priestess of Minerva, Chorus of Priestesses) - 4:32
31. Scene 9: March - 1:18
32. Scene 10: O Minerve scavante! (High Priestess of Minerva, Chorus) - 2:45
33. Scene 10: Entrance of Warriors - 1:38
34. Scene 10: Que la Guerre sanglante (Chorus, High Priestess of Minerva) - 2:15
35. Scene 10: La Marche pour l'Entr'acte - 0:34

CD 2
01.Act II Scene 1: Doux repos, innocente paix (Medee, Dorine) - 6:45
02. Scene 2: Je voy le succes favorable (King of Athens, Medee, Attendants of the King) - 4:06
03. Scene 3: Seignur, songez a vous (Arcas, King of Athens) - 0:28
04. Scene 4: Demeure, escoute un mot, Arcas (Dorine, Arcas) - 0:52
05. Scene 5: C'est donc la tout le prix d'une amour trop sincere (Dorine) - 0:56
06. Scene 6: Regnez, Heros indomptable (Chorus, Dorine) - 0:48
07. Scene 6: Premier Air pour l'Entree triomphante de Thesee - 0:46
08. Scene 7: Que l'on doit estre (Chorus, 2 Old Athenian Men) - 2:01
09. Scene 7: Second Air and Pour le peu de bon temps (2 Old Athenian Men) - 2:52
10. Scene 7: C'est assez, amis, c'est assez (Thesee) - 0:44
11. Scene 8: Thesee ou courez-vous? (Medee, Thesee) - 3:41
12. Scene 9: Depit mortel, Transport jaloux (Medee) - 1:09
13. Scene 9: Air pour l'Entr'Acte - 0:53

14.Act III Scene 1: Vous allez voir bien-tost (Aegle, Cleone) - 3:02
15. Scene 2: Le Roy m'ordonne de vous dire (Arcas, Aegle, Cleone) - 2:42
16. Scene 3: Princesse, scavez-vous ce que peut ma colere (Medee, Aegle) - 4:43
17. Scene 3: Prelude - 1:13
18. Scene 4: Dieux! ou sommes-nous! (Aegle, Cleone, Arcas) - 0:23
19. Scene 5: Contre ce monstre qui m'allarme (Cleone, Arcas, Dorine) - 3:46
20. Scene 6: Qu'on ne me trouble point (Medee, Cleone, Arcas) - 0:18
21. Scene 6: Invocation: Ritournelle - 0:26
22. Scene 7: Sortez, Ombres, sortez de la Nuit eternelle (Medee, Chorus of the Inhabitants of Hell, Chorus) - 5:23
23. Scene 8: Que tous fremisse (Aegle, The Shadows) - 1:10

CD 3
01.Act IV Scene 1: Cruelle, ne voulez-vous pas (Aegle, Medee) - 2:44
02. Scene 2: Quel spectacle vient me surpendre? (Aegle, Medee) - 0:43
03. Scene 3: Faut-il voir contre may tous les Enfers armez? (Aegle, Medee) - 2:46
04. Scene 3: Ritournelle - 0:42
05. Scene 4: Voyez ce que j'ay soin de faire (Medee, Thesee) - 2:33
06. Scene 5: Aegle ne m'ayme plus (Aegle, Thesee) - 4:55
07. Scene 6: Finissez vos regrets, c'est trop (Medee, Aegle, Thesee) - 4:01
08. Scene 7: Que nos prairies (2 Shepherdesses) - 5:23
09. Scene 7: Aimons tout nous y convie (2 Other Shepherdesses) - 5:40
10. Scene 7: Quel plaisir d'aimer (One of the Inhabitants of the Enchanted Island, Chorus) - 2:45

11.Act V Scene 1: Ah! Faut-il me vanger (Medee) - 2:56
12. Scene 2: Que Thesee est content (Dorine, Medee) - 1:28
13. Scene 3: Ce Vase par mes soins vient d'estre empoisonne (Medee, King of Athens) - 2:27
14. Scene 4: Ne craignez rien parfaits Amants (King of Athens, Medee, Chorus) - 1:43
15. Scene 4: Oublions le passe, ma colere est finie (King of Athens, Thesee) - 1:41
16. Scene 5: Ah! Perfide Medee! (King of Athens, Thesee, Aegle) - 1:43
17. Scene 5: Que l'hymen prepare des noeuds pleins d'attraits (King of Athens, Chorus, Thesee, Aegle, Cleone, Arcas) - 2:24
18. Scene 6: Vous n'estes pas encor delivrez de ma rage (Medee) - 0:48
19. Scene 7: Secourez-nous, justes Dieux! (Chorus) - 1:07
20. Scene 7: Prelude - 1:16
21. Scene 8: Le Ciel veut ecarter (High Priestess of Minerva) - 0:44
22. Scene 8: Vivez, vivez contents (High Priestess of Minerva, Chorus of Divinities in Glory, Chorus of Athenians in the Palace) - 2:37
23. Scene 8: Premier Air pour la derniere Entree - 1:37
24. Scene 8: Second Air - Le plus sage (Arcas, Cleone) - 3:50

Jean-Baptiste Lully, born Giovanni Battista Lulli in Florence in 1632, moved to France early in his career. By the time he turned 30, he had been named music master to the royal family and elevated to the nobility. Italian opera, particularly the works of Cavalli, had become hugely popular in France, and Lully took up the task of creating a tradition of native French opera. In 1775, in collaboration with librettist Philippe Quinault, Lully produced Thésée, a "tragédie en musique," which marked a turning point in the synthesis of music, dramaturgy, and dance, and became the model for French opera for nearly a century, until the reforms of Gluck. CPO's splendid new recording of the opera finally gives listeners the opportunity to hear what made the opera so historic. Thésée's plot is complex, but not incomprehensible or ridiculous -- the characters are distinctly drawn, motivated by simple hopes and fears with which any audience could easily identify. Lully's music aptly underlines the dramatic situations, and while he doesn't use anything as specific as leitmotivs, the various characters are associated with particular styles of music. His recitatives are naturalistically set and are more like arioso than secco recitative, and they flow easily into the set pieces. The music is strongly expressive, full of variety, and the orchestration is colorfully inventive. The performance by the orchestra and chorus of the Boston Early Music Festival, led by Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, is above reproach, bringing the music and drama fully to life. The soloists are uniformly jaw-droppingly accomplished, which is quite an achievement in an opera with over a dozen important roles. Each soloist sings with gorgeous tone, powerful, dramatic characterization, and complete assurance in the subtleties of period ornamentation. The sound quality is ideal -- natural sounding and also absolutely clean, with excellent balance. CPO's Thésée is easily one of the finest Baroque operas on disc; serious opera lovers deserve to treat themselves to this historic and revelatory recording. -- Stephen Eddins

Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs - Lully-Thesee (2007).rar - 872.5 MB