Les Ombres, Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Mélodie Ruvio – Handel, Marais & Destouches: Sémélé (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:39 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mirare presents another fine recording by the talented ensemble Les Ombres, led jointly by group members Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre. Baroque music combines violence and gentleness, unity and plurality. This disc dedicated to the myth of Semele and Icarus combines music by Marin Marais, André Cardinal Destouches and George Frederic Handel.
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Lea Desandre, Nathalie Pérez, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Opera Fuocom and David Stern – Berenice, che fai ? (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:41 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Around the Franco-Italian mezzo soprano Lea Desandre – who made her big début with William Christie in the Jardins des voix, then won the “Lyrical Revelation” prize in the Victoires de la musique in 2017 – the sopranos Nathalie Pérez and Chantal Santon-Jeffery have concocted a programme that takes in many different lyrical incarnations of Berenice of Egypt and her misadventures with the King, Antigono Gonatas, through the prism of Metastasio’s Antigone, which has been set to music by well over thirty composers, some focusing more on Antigone, others on Berenice. We will hear little-known airs like those of Haydn, Mozart, Johann Christian Bach and Hasse: the principle virtue of this album is that it allows us to discover these rarities, which often call for virtuoso vocal talents, and so are perfect for the voices of the three singers presented here. A rarity among rarities, we will also find a stunning air from Marianna von Martinez who held a musical salon in Vienna which received visits from… Haydn and Mozart.
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Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort – Lagrime e sospiri (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:03 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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The life of Stradella, murdered on a Genoese piazza at the age of forty-two on the orders of a jealous rival in love, has achieved mythical status and inspired several novels and operas featuring Stradella the adventurer, the rebel and above all Stradella the Don Juan, whose amorous escapades, from abducting a novice from a convent in Florence to a flight across Italy with the high-born fiancée of a senator, were never a hindrance to his flourishing musical career.
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Chantal Santon Jeffery – Brillez, astres nouveaux ! (Airs d’opéra baroque français) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:31 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classique
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Chantal Santon-Jeffery and the Orfeo Orchestra, conducted by György Vashegyi, take us through a musical journey that leads straight to the French Enlightenments. Glorious time of the “sopranos légères”, whose agile voices allowed all fantasies and ornaments, it’s during Louis the Beloved’s reign that French opera reaches new heights: the public hastens to every representation to delight in hearing the demoiselles vocalize with their brilliant voices. Chantal Santon-Jeffery pays tribute to these opera virtuosos with a beautiful recital that celebrates all the splendours of the repertoire, in association with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles: with numerous unrecorded works, Chantal Santon-Jeffery brings this admirable singing back to life.
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