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Lully - Armide / Laurens · Crook · Gens · Rime · Deletré · Ragon · Collegium Vocale · La Chappel Royale · Herreweghe
CD DetailsEdition: Music CD Format: Import CD Release Date: 1993-05-03 Music Label: Harmonia Mundi, U.S.A. Soundtracks: Music CD 1- Armide: Overture
- Armide: 'All The Universe Must Yield' (La Gloire)
- Armide: Entree
- Armide: Minuet Gavotte en rondeau
- Armide: 'Let Us Follow Our Hero' (La Sagesse)
- Armide: Entree
- Armide: Minuets I & II
- Armide: Overture (Reprise)
- Armide: Ritornello 'Das un jour de triomphe' (Armide, Phenice, Sidonie)
- Armide: Armide: 'Un songe affreux m'inspire une fureur nouvelle' (Armide, Phenice, Sidonie)
- Armide: 'Armide, que le sang qui m'unit avec vous' (Hidraot, Armide, Phenice, Sidonie)
- Armide: Marche. Hidraot & choeur: 'Armide est encore plus aimable'
- Armide: Rondeau. Phenice & choeur: 'Suivons Armide'
- Armide: Aronte: 'O ciel! O disgrace cruelle' (Aronte, Hidraot, Armide, Phenice, Sidonie)
- Armide: Artemidore: 'Invincible Heros' (Artemidroe, Renaud)
- Armide: Prelude. Hidraot: 'Arretons-nous ici' (Hidraot, Armide)
- Armide: Prelude. 'Plus j'observe ces lieux' (Renaud)
- Armide: 'Au temps heureux ou l on sait plaire' (Une Naiade)
- Armide: Prelude. Choeur: 'Ah! Quelle erreur!'
- Armide: Airs I & II. Une bergere heroique: 'On s' estonnerait moins'
- Armide: 'Enfin, il est en ma puissance' (Renaud, Armide)
Music CD 2- Armide: Act III, Scene 1: 'Ah! If Of Liberty I Must Be Bereft'
- Armide: Act III, Scene 2: 'Alas! I Fear My Own Heart'
- Armide: Act III, Scene 3: 'Come, Come, Implacable Hate,'
- Armide: Act III, Scene 4: 'I Answer Your Call, Your Voice Was Heard'
- Armide: Act III, Scene 4: 'The Attendants Of Hate Eagerly Break And Burn Love's Weapons'
- Armide: Act III, Scene 4: Air - 'Quit, Quit Armida's Heart, Love, Break Your Chains.'
- Armide: Act IV, Scene 1: 'Everywhere We Find Nothing But Gaping Abysses.'
- Armide: Act IV, Scene 2: Air - 'Behold The Delectable Retreat Of Perfect Felicity;'
- Armide: Act IV, Scene 2: 'Come, Why Do You Delay?'
- Armide: Act IV, Scene 2: Air (Reprise) - 'At Last I Behold The Lover For Whom My Heart Languishes,'
- Armide: Act IV, Scene 3: 'Reason Disengages Me From The Strongest Charms,'
- Armide: Act V, Scene 1: 'Armida, You Will Leave Me!'
- Armide: Act V, Scene 1: Passacaille
- Armide: Act V, Scene 2: 'Away, Get You Gone From Me'
- Armide: Act V, Scene 3: Prelude - 'He Is Alone; Let Us Take Advantage Of This Precious Moment'
- Armide: Act V, Scene 4: 'Rinaldo! Heavens! O Mortal Pain!'
- Armide: Act V, Scene 5: 'The False Rinaldo Has Left Me;'
- Armide: Act V, Scene 5: 'Traitor, Wait, I Hold Him And His Treacherous Heart,'
Music reviews of Lully - Armide / Laurens · Crook · Gens · Rime · Deletré · Ragon · Collegium Vocale · La Chappel Royale · HerrewegheMusic Review: Lully's masterpiece? Rating: 5 Stars
Many will probably now own the Minkowski recording of Gluck's Armide.
But I invite you to travel back in time nearly one hundred years to a very different world, a world without clarinets and Jean-Philippe Rameau. This is the world of the Sun King, Lully and his Tragédie Lyriques.
I cannot recommend this recording too highly. The cast is first class - Guillemette Laurens, Howard Crook, Véronique Gens, Bernard Deletré, Gilles Ragon and Noémi Rime are here. The incredibly beautiful and talented harpsichordist and conductor, Emmanuelle Haïm, is one of the four keyboardists in the continuo section.
This opera is not inferior to Gluck's later work in any way. In fact, some scenes - as in Acte II, Scène 3, "Plus j'observe ces lieux" - are actually superior to the same scenes in Gluck's setting of the same libretto. I think that this may be Lully's greatest opera.
I hope that this work is recorded on DVD one day. However, until that time comes, please seriously consider this superb recording of this opera.
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