Isis (LULLY ou le Musicien du Soleil, Vol. VII)

Isis (LULLY ou le Musicien du Soleil, Vol. VII)

Isis (LULLY ou le Musicien du Soleil, Vol. VII)
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Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Conductor: Hugo Reyne
Orchestra: La Simphonie du Marais
Performer: Françoise Masset
Performer: Isabelle Desrochers
Performer: Valérie Gabail
Performer: Guillemette Laurens
Performer: Robert Getchell
Performer: Howard Crook . Renaud Delaigue
Performer: Bernad Deletré Bertrand Chuberre
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-11-07
Music Label: Accord (Universal Classics)

Music reviews of Isis (LULLY ou le Musicien du Soleil, Vol. VII)

Music Review: M. Reyne, please stop!
Rating: 2 Stars

I have a great passion for the music of the French Baroque, especially the works of Lully. This should be a great time for fans of Lully because Hugo Reyne and his group La Simphonie du Marais has set out to record most of Lully's operas, including all the unrecorded ones. The problem is that his recordings are frankly dull and lack passion.

Old recordings made of Lully before the 1980s made him sound florid and stuffy. Then came William Christie & Les Arts Florrisants who revolutionized the French Baroque and made it wonderful and popular. Other groups led by his students Marc Minkowski and Christophe Rousset have continued this tradition of great new interpretations of Lully and Rameau. Reyne studied with Christie, but seem to have learned nothing.

I was especially disappointed by "Isis" since this is one of Lully's greatest works. There are wonderful excerpts of "Isis" by Christie on his magnificent "Les Divertissements de Versailles" and others on an excellent soundtrack of "Le Roi Dance" by Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln. These made me crave a full version of "Isis"

Reyne's work came as a huge disappointment even after I was conditioned to such let-downs by Reyne's other vapid releases.

What makes this unbearable is that Lully's operas are rarely recorded. Even Christie and Minkowski's excellent ensembles are overly busy making recordings of Handel operas of which we already have several recordings.

So who will record these operas again after Reyne already has? Opera Lafayette did a decent job of "Armide." Boston Early Music Festival did a good recording of "Thésée" and a serviceable version of "Psyché." But Christie, Minkowski and Rousset have left the field for now and Reinhard Goebel's Musica Antiqua Köln seems to have only done the soundtrack to "Le Roi Dance." This is a shame.

At this point, we can only hope that Hugo Reyne will stop!

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