Credits:

Netherlands Radio Philhar

Description:

The group of Reinaut van Mechelen, an old music singer who has been actively presenting the music of the French 17th and 18th centuries to the world through recordings on the Alpha label, A Nocte Tempolis. On the other hand, Vox Luminis, a small group of talented singers from France, Belgium, and Germany, with only two to three members per part, has presented a wide range of repertoire from the three major German S (Schütz, Schein, and Scheidt) to Handel. These two talented groups at the forefront of European ancient music research and live performance have joined forces to record a substantial album that confronts head-on two masterpieces by Charpentier, one of the greatest composers of the French Baroque. During the reign of Lully, the royal music director at the court of Louis XIV, Charpentier was kept away from the royal court and was prevented from composing major operas by Lully, but instead left many masterpieces of small-scale vocal music.The story of Orphe (Orpheus), the lyre virtuoso who goes to the underworld to retrieve his lover Eurydice, who has died prematurely, is told in two pieces, a long and a short one, and the ensemble of A Nocte Tempolis, which plays the song of Van Mechelen with vivid old instrumental accompaniment, is magnificent. The ensemble of A Nocte Tempolis is magnificent. The ensemble is led by the talented Antony Romanyuk, who also played the harpsichord on Patrizia Kopatchinskaja's famous "Take Two" album. The participation of the talented vocal group Vox Luminis is also very encouraging, and convincingly conveys that Charpentier's music, full of theatricality, is a sound world that should be confronted in the 21st century. Naxos Japan

Tracklisting:

1.Orphee Descendant Aux Enfers, H.471~Prelude
2.Orphee Descendant Aux Enfers, H.471~Recit d'Orphee, violon lentement
3.Orphee Descendant Aux Enfers, H.471~Effroyables enfers, ou je conduis mes pas
4.Orphee Descendant Aux Enfers, H.471~Quelle douce harmonie a frappe mon oreille?
5.Orphee Descendant Aux Enfers, H.471~Vos plus grands criminels ronges par des vautours
6.Orphee Descendant Aux Enfers, H.471~Ne cherchons plus d'ou vient cette tendresse
7.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Ouverture
8.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Inventons mille jeux divers
9.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Compagnes fideles
10.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Soutiens-moi, chere Enone
11.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Qu'ai-je entendu? Que vois-je?
12.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Ah! Bergers c'en est fait
13.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Entree de Nymphes et de Bergers desesperes
14.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Lache amant, pourrais-tu survivre
15.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Ne tourne point, mon fils
16.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Que d'un frivole espoir
17.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Affreux tourments, genes cruelles
18.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Cessez, cessez fameux coupables
19.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Quelle touchante voix
20.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Je ne refuse point ce secours
21.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Il n'est rien aux Enfers
22.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Entree des Fantomes
23.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Que cherche en mon palais ce mortel temeraire?
24.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Je ne viens point ici, Monarque des Enfers
25.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Pauvre amant, quel c?ur de rocher
26.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Eurydice n'est plus, et mon feu dure encore
27.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Le destin est contraire a ce que tu souhaites
28.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Tu ne la perdras pint, helas, pour me la rendre
29.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Quel charme imperieux m'excite a la tendresse?
30.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Souviens-toi du larcin que tu fis a Ceres
31.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Je cede, je me rends, aimable Proserpine
32.La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers, H.488~Vous partez donc, Orphee?