Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Marc-Antoine Charpentier: La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Marc-Antoine Charpentier: La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers (2017)
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier always had an ambiguous relationship with opera. While living in Rome in the late 1660s he had a chance to familiarise himself with this fast-expanding vocal genre. When he returned to Paris, some time around 1670, he was able to witness the creation of the Académie Royale de Musique, followed by the birth of the tragédie en musique, that typically French genre elaborated by Jean-Baptiste Lully over a lengthy period. Although his functions with his new patrons, particularly the Jesuits and the Grand Dauphin, tended to push him in the direction of sacred music, Charpentier was often tempted to write operatic works. Unfortunately, like all his contemporaries, he came up against the hegemony of the jealous Lully, who ensured the doors of the Opéra remained closed to him. It was not until 1693, six years after the Lully’s death, that he finally gained access to that institution; his only tragédie en musique, Médée, was a failure – deemed too dense, too learned. Yet Charpentier’s attraction for musical theatre may be observed throughout his career, in the numerous scores of incidental music, his two biblical tragedies intended for the Jesuit colleges, and above all the divertissements. Charpentier’s divertissements are on a small scale (a few scenes or else short one-act pieces) and conceived for relatively modest forces. Their inspiration is mythological, allegorical or heroic; they mingle light-hearted and dramatic elements. In all these respects, they owe a great deal to the genre of the pastorale en musique, the earliest specimens of which contributed to the rise of French opera. Alongside his motets and histoires sacrées in Latin intended for the devotions of the princess, Charpentier invented for her more secular recreations, small vocal forms sung in French, genuine miniature operas tailor-made for the little company of musicians she maintained at her Parisian town house.

Tracklist:
1-01. Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte: Ouverture (02:02)
1-02. Ensemble Correspondances, Caroline Weynants, Violaine Le Chenadec, Caroline Dangin-Bardot, Caroline Arnaud and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 1: Inventons mille jeux divers (04:46)
1-03. Ensemble Correspondances, Caroline Weynants and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 1: Compagnes fidèles (03:01)
1-04. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé and Caroline Weynants – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 1: Soutiens-moi, chère Œnone (01:01)
1-05. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé and Robert Getchell – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 2: Ah ! Bergers, c’en est fait (02:17)
1-06. Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 2: Entrée de Nymphes et de Bergers désespérés (01:16)
1-07. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé and Robert Getchell – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 2: Lâche amant (00:40)
1-08. Ensemble Correspondances, Etienne Bazola, Sébastien Daucé and Robert Getchell – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 3: Ne tourne point, mon fils (02:05)
1-09. Ensemble Correspondances, Robert Getchell and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Premier Acte, Scène 3: Que d’un frivole espoir (03:46)
1-10. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé, Stephen Collardelle, Davy Cornillot and Etienne Bazola – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 1: Affreux tourments (01:14)
1-11. Ensemble Correspondances, Robert Getchell and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 2: Cessez, cessez fameux coupables (02:04)
1-12. Ensemble Correspondances, Stephen Collardelle, Etienne Bazola, Sébastien Daucé and Davy Cornillot – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 2: Quelle touchante voix (01:32)
1-13. Ensemble Correspondances, Robert Getchell and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 2: Je ne refuse point (01:01)
1-14. Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 2: Il n’est rien aux Enfers (01:20)
1-15. Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 2: Entrée des Fantômes (01:06)
1-16. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé and Nicolas Brooymans – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Que cherche en mon palais (00:55)
1-17. Ensemble Correspondances, Robert Getchell and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Je ne viens point ici (02:33)
1-18. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé and Caroline Arnaud – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Pauvre amant (01:13)
1-19. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé and Robert Getchell – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Eurydice n’est plus (02:24)
1-20. Ensemble Correspondances, Nicolas Brooymans, Caroline Arnaud and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Le destin est contraire (01:31)
1-21. Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé and Robert Getchell – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Tu ne la perdras point (02:19)
1-22. Ensemble Correspondances, Caroline Arnaud, Sébastien Daucé and Nicolas Brooymans – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Quel charme impérieux (01:29)
1-23. Ensemble Correspondances, Robert Getchell and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Souviens-toi du larcin (02:52)
1-24. Ensemble Correspondances, Robert Getchell, Sébastien Daucé and Nicolas Brooymans – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 3: Je cède, je me rends (02:13)
1-25. Ensemble Correspondances, Etienne Bazola, Stephen Collardelle, Sébastien Daucé and Davy Cornillot – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 4: Vous partez donc (04:52)
1-26. Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé – La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, H. 488, Second Acte, L’Enfer, Scène 4: Entrée des Fantômes (03:06)