Lully - Atys
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Composer: Jean-Baptiste LullyConductor: William Christie
Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants
Performer: Guy de Mey
Performer: Guillemette Laurens
Performer: Gilles Ragon
Performer: Jean-Paul Fouch?court
Performer: V?ronique Gens
Performer: Agn?s Mellon
Performer: Jean-Fran?ois Gardeil
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1992-12-09
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prologue: Ov - Orch Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
- Prologue: Le Temps: En Vain, J'ai Respecte/Chor Des Heures: Ses Justes Iois - Bernard Deletre/Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Prologue: Air Pour Les Nymphes De Flore/Le Temps: La Saison Des Frimats - Monique Zanetti/Bernard Deletre
- Prologue: Air Pour La Ste De Flore - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Prologue: Prld Pour Melpomene/Air Pour La Ste De Melpomene - Arlette Steyer/Orch Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
- Prologue: Ritournelle - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Prologue: Menuet/Reprise De I'Ouverture - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte I: Scene I: Ritournelle/Scene 2: Vous Veillez - Jacques Bona
- Acte I: Atys, Ne Feignez Plus - Jacques Bona
- Acte I: Scene 3: Allons, Allons, Accourez Tous/Ecoutons Les Oiseaux - Agnes Mellon/Guy De Mey
- Acte I: Scene 4: Atys Est Trop Heureux/Un Amour Malheureux - Agnes Mellon/Francoise Semellaz
- Acte I: Scene 5: On Voit Dans Ces Campagnes/Scene 6: Sangaride, Ce Jour/Si I'hymen Unissait - Agnes Mellon/Guy De Mey
- Acte I: Scene 7: Mais Deja De Ce Mont Sacre/Commencons De Celebrer - Agnes Mellon/Guy De Mey
- Acte I: Entree De Phrygiens/Second Air Des Phrygiens - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte I: Scene 8: Prld/Venez Tous Dans Mon Temple - Guillemette Laurens/Orch Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
- Acte II: Scene 1: Ritournelle/Qu'un Indifferent Est Heureux - Guy De Mey
- Acte II: Scene 2: Prld/Je Veux Joindre - Guillemette Laurens
- Acte II: Scene 3: Tu T'etonnes, Melisse/J'ai Cru Me Faire Un Coeur/Fais Venir Le Sommeil - Guillemette Laurens
- Acte II: Scene 4: Celebrons La Gloire Immortelle - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte II: Entree Des Nations/Entree Des Zephirs - Orch Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
- Acte II: Que Devant Vous/Indigne Que Je Suis/Que Devant Nous/Reprise De I'Air Des Zephirs - Guy De Mey/Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte III: Scene I: Ritournelle/Scene 2: Peut-On Ici Parler/Dans I'empire Amoureux/Je Souhaite, Je Cr - Guy De Mey/Francoise Semellaz/Jacques Bona
- Acte III: Le Plus Juste Parti/Scene 3: Mais Le Sommeil Vient Me Surprendre - Guy De Mey
- Acte III: Scene 4: Prld/Le Sommeil: Dormons, Dormons Tous/Prld - Orch Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
- Acte III: Ecoute, Ecoute, Atys/Que I'Amour A D'attraits/Goute En Paix/Trop Heureux Un Amant - Jean-Paul Fouchecourt/Michel Laplenie/Bernard Deletre
- Acte III: Un Songe Funeste: Garde-Toi D'offenser/L'amour/Scene 5: Venez A Mon Secours - Guy De Mey/Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte III: Scene 6: Je Sais Trop/Scene 7: Qu' Atys Dans Ses Respects/Deux Coeurs A Feindre - Guy De Mey/Guillemette Laurens/Noemi Rime
- Acte III: Va Melisse/Scene 8 - Guillemette Laurens/Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte IV: Scene I: Quoi! Vous Pleurez!/Trop Heureux Un Coeur/Apres Une Trahison/Qu'une Premiere Amour - Agnes Mellon/Francoise Semellaz
- Acte IV: Scene 2: Prld/Belle Nymphe/Scene 3 - Jean-Francois Gardeil
- Acte IV: Scene 4: Ritournelle/Qu'il Sait Peu Son Malheur/Mon Pere Vient Ici - Guy De Mey/Francoise Semellaz
- Acte IV: Scene 5: Prld/Que I'on Chante - Orch Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
- Acte IV: Gavotte/Menuet/Un Grand Calme - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte IV: Scene 6: Venez Former - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte V: Scene 1: Ritournelle - Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte V: Scene 2: Venez Vous Livrer/Toi Qui Porte Partout/Ciel! - Guillemette Laurens/Jean-Francois Gardeil
- Acte V: Atys Lui-Meme/Scene 4: Un Calme Heureux/Quoi! Sangaride Est Morte! - Guy De Mey/Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
- Acte V: Scene 5: Je Commence A Trouver/Scene 6: Il S'est Perce Le Sein - Guillemette Laurens/Jacques Bona
- Acte V: Scene Derniere: Ritournelle/Venez, Furieux Corybantes - Guillemette Laurens
- Acte V: Entree Des Nymphes/Premiere Entree Des Corybantes/Seconde Entree - Orch Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
- Acte V: Que Le malheur D'Atys - Guillemette Laurens/Chor Les Arts Florissants/Olivier Schneebelli
Music reviews of Lully - Atys
Music Review: Not to be missed
Rating: 5 Stars
The previous reviewers have said it all and have said it very well. Anyone who loves Baroque opera and enjoys the works of Handel and Vivaldi will, I am sure, love this work. Lully's works are vastly different from those two greats, his work is distinctively French (although Lully was Italian). It is brilliant and exciting. Christie has no peer and for Atys he has assembled a cast which absolutely beggars the imagination. He seems to have recruited every great singer of French Baroque music right down to the minor roles. It is three hours of listening pleasure.
Description of Lully - Atys
Jean-Baptiste Lully has long been known as the father of French opera; this 1987 recording was the first to suggest his works are fit for something more than the library shelf. Though the 1676 Atys lacks the depth of texture and characterization (as well as the sheer weirdness) found in Rameau, the opera is like a catalog of French Baroque recitative and aria techniques in this Dangerous Liaisons-style story of love and jealousy amid royals and gods. Ironically, when the title character goes to sleep in act 3, the music truly wakes up in an imaginative, strikingly mellifluous evocation of abstract gods such as Morpheus and Phantasmus. William Christie's direction isn't quite as crisp and polished as later recordings, but his sense of style and ability to find passion behind the operatic formality is rock solid, with fine vocal contributions by Guy de Mey (Atys), Agnes Mellon (Sangaride), and Guillemette Laurens (Cybele). --David Patrick StearnsAll Works by Lully CDs
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