Château de Versailles
Mozart: L’Enlèvement du sérail (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
A mixed bag of achievements for the first recording in French of Mozart’s singspiel [MP]
Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Château de Versailles)
A misconceived performance of a great Purcell ode [JW]
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
A new presentation, strong and full of woe, but only partially successful [PH]
Charpentier: Choral music (Château de Versailles)
A carefully devised programme enabling us to understand how Italian polychoral works so heavily influenced Charpentier’s expansive, insistent idiom [RMo]
Clérambault: Choral music (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
More of Clérambault’s sacred music should be explored if it is of such quality [RWe]
d’Orléans: Suite d’Armide ou Jérusalem délivrée (Château de Versailles)
A Baroque masterpiece that has been skillfully prepared but is compromised by irritating microphone placement [MP]
Clérambault: Te Deum, La femme adultère (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
An impressive testimony of Clérambault’s qualities in the field of sacred music [JV]
The Last Castrato. Arias for Velluti (Château de Versailles)
Mostly unheard gems by less familiar composers of the Bel canto era [MP]
Lully: Alceste (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
Relive the Golden Age of the Tragédie lyrique in a performance of insight and conviction [PH]
The Last Castrato, Arias for Velluti (Château de Versailles)
Valuable both for the singing of Fagioli and for the rare repertoire that has been rescued for posterity after two centuries of neglect [GF]
De Grigny: Premier Livre d’Orgue (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
De Grigny’s early death deprived future generations of a great deal his genius had to offer [SG]
Monteverdi: L’Orfeo (Château de Versailles)
L’Orfeo with a difference, especially in instrumental colour and dramatic projection [RWe]
Cimarosa: L’Olimpiade (Château de Versailles)
Rousset and his team earn a gold medal for this premiere recording of a long-unheard opera [MP]
Cimarosa: L’Olimpiade (Château de Versailles)
L’Olympiade is a worthy addition to the Cimarosa discography [GF]
Charpentier: Airs sérieux et à boire (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
An outstanding and enjoyable production [JV]
Mademoiselle Duval: Les Génies (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
A Baroque opera rarity is one of CVS’s happiest releases of recent years [MP]
Collection Grands Motets No 9: Lully – Te Deum Vol 4 (Château de Versailles)
The final disc in a series of four devoted to Lully’s choral motets [JV]
Gloire immortelle! Grandes oeuvres patriotiques (Château de Versailles)
A pleasant romp through the realm of French patriotic music and beyond [MP]
Lully: Atys (Château de Versailles)
This will bring much pleasure to lovers of French Baroque [SG]
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (Château de Versailles)
Too strident for my liking [DJB]
Gilles: Messe des Morts (Château de Versailles)
Pleasant music in good but not exceptional performances [MP]
Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux (Château de Versailles)
Elegance and refinement were highly appreciated at the time, and that is exactly what we get here [JV]
The Harpsichord of Louis XV (Château de Versailles)
Tradition and innovation in a compelling recital of French harpsichord music [JV]
Charpentier: Te Deum (Château de Versailles)
One of the main attractions of this disc is the magnificent De profundis [JV]
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