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Campra, Andre (1660-1744)

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Hervé Nicquet's masterpiece reissued! Campra: Opera Ballet "The Carnival of Venice"! Hervé Nicquet & Conseil Spirituel's journey of revival and restoration of the unknown French Baroque music! André Campra (1660-1744), the music director of Notre Dame Cathedral, who was fascinated by stage music as well as a composer of excellent religious music such as the masterpiece "Requiem", has reappeared with his opera ballet "The Carnival of Venice"! Campra was responsible for the establishment and development of a new style of stage music in the French Baroque, the "opera-barre". Although he was not allowed to be both a clergyman and a composer of stage music, and was dismissed from his position as the music director of a cathedral, "The Carnival of Venice" was completed in Paris in 1699, just before the arrival of the 18th century, and is regarded as one of Campra's representative works of stage music, along with his highly successful "Elegant Europe". Hervé Niquet and Conseil Spirituel are also renowned for their performance and interpretation of Campra's "religious music. BBC Music Magazine said, "Hervé Nicquet conducts a superb ensemble that understands the Campra score.The singers are expressive, Salome Allaire's Isabelle is magnificent, and Andrew Foster-Williams' Rodolphe is compelling. Financial Times). Tokyo M-Plus