Camille Delaforge – Mademoiselle Duval: Les Génies ou les Caractères de l’Amour (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Camille Delaforge – Mademoiselle Duval: Les Génies ou les Caractères de l’Amour (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:53 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles

Would you know Miss Duval, composer of a single opera, The Geniuses, performed nine times in 1736, which was a great success and has never been revived since its creation at the Royal Academy of Music in Paris? Singer and composer, Mademoiselle Duval is the second woman to have created an opera there, following Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. If her life remains mysterious, this harpsichordist confirmed to the point of dazzling the public by holding the continuo to the creation of the Geniuses, wrote a work of contemporary entertainment of the Gallant Indies, deploying with each act a new love intrigue centered on the Geniuses of the Waters (The Nymphs), the Air (The Sylphs), the Earth (The Gnomes) and Fire (The Salamanders). It is a little wonder that Camille Delaforge’s curiosity finally delivers us, passionately directing this rarity of the French repertoire with absolute happiness!

Opera-ballet in a prologue and four acts on a libretto by Jacques Fleury, premiered at the Royal Academy of Music in Paris in 1736.

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Camille Delaforge, Ensemble Il Caravaggio – Héroïnes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Camille Delaforge, Ensemble Il Caravaggio – Héroïnes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:02 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles

Armide, Clorinde, Procris, Lucrèce : les Héroïnes peuplent la tragédie lyrique et la cantate dans la France musicale baroque, de Lully à Montéclair, et même dans la chanson populaire. Guerrières ou magiciennes, amoureuses ou victimes, leurs destinées fascinèrent les compositeurs et le public. Camille Delaforge réunit un florilège de musiques exaltantes, où ces femmes hors du commun sont élevées sur le piédestal de la gloire et de l’amour.

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Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Guilhem Worms, Ronald Martin Alonso, Camille Delaforge – La Dame de mes Songes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Guilhem Worms, Ronald Martin Alonso, Camille Delaforge – La Dame de mes Songes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:39 minutes | 1005 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty

In the third of the four songs of Don Quixote by Alexandre Arnoux and Jacques Ibert, Dulcinea is sung of as “La Dame de mes songes” (The lady of my dreams). The title of the present album could also refer to that Spain as dreamed by French composers between 1830 and 1930, unfairly reduced to Andalusia and flamenco. The ensemble Il Caravaggio (here only in trio with baritone, viola da gamba and harpsichord), in its exploration of the colorful and passionate Spanish-French song world in the 20th century, stops not only in Andalusia, but also in Old Castile, Extremadura and Murcia.

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Ensemble Il Caravaggio & Camille Delaforge – Madonna della Grazia (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Ensemble Il Caravaggio & Camille Delaforge – Madonna della Grazia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:11 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Klarthe Records

With this program entitled Madonna della grazia by allusion to one of the popular songs the component, the Ensemble Il Caravaggio proposes to illustrate a journey around the figure of the Woman in Italy. Mother, washerwoman, beloved, the Woman is portrayed in all these beauties. Present in Italian culture, Marie also finds an important musical reflection in learned and popular Italy. Thus, at the detour of fishermen who celebrate the Madonna in their wild tarantella, the Ensemble Il Caravaggio criss-crosses the Italian alleys and makes heard learned songs and folk songs that radiate to the confines of the sacred and the profane.

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