Héloïse Gaillard, Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Ensemble Amarillis – Portraits de la Folie (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:18 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Having been relegated to a moral space of exclusion and fear in the Middle Ages, madness subsequently became a major social phenomenon: brought under control and personified as ‘Folly’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it provided scope for social and moral criticism, leading composers and librettists to give it a prominent place on the operatic stage. Here Stéphanie d’Oustrac and the Amarillis Ensemble present its multiple facets, from seduction to passionate love, from despair to joy, revealing the underlying truths of humanity in the Baroque era.
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Sonya Yoncheva, Karine Deshayes, Ensemble Amarillis – Pergolesi Stabat Mater (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:09 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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A rapidly rising star on today’s opera scene, Sonya Yoncheva appears in this album alongside ‘Lyric Artist of the Year’ winner Karine Deshayes in a masterwork of the sacred music repertoire; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
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Ensemble Amarillis – Handel: Melodies in Mind (Suites & Trio Sonatas) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:16 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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When the ensemble Amarillis focuses on Handel, the musicians reinvent the genre of the baroque suite. They take advantage of their variable formation to concoct a joyous musical ballet in homage to the most Italian of the English composers. No voice here, and yet what lyricism in these pages!
Thanks to transcriptions that constantly renew the instrumentation of the program, the performers emphasize the colours of this contrasting and special anthology of Handel’s Suites and Trio Sonatas.
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Ensemble Amarillis – Bach & Telemann: Effervescence concertante (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:04 minutes | 977 MB | Genre: Classical
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“The idea of this program is to feature concertos for several ensemble instruments in a variety of sound combinations. For example, Telemann’s Concerto for flute and recorder is a response to Bach’s Concerto for violin and oboe. Telemann chooses the four-movement form, thereby recalling the old sonata da chiesa, whereas Bach adopts the three-movement form created by Vivaldi. The Concerto for harpsichord in F major BWV 1057 is a retranscription Bach himself made of his Fourth Brandenburg Concerto for a command performance in Leipzig. Like other composers of the baroque period, Bach saw no harm in recycling themes or even whole pieces, tweaking them as he wished. The personalities of both of these composers blossom fully with the concertante form. Although they adopt different structures, both show their mastery of the form… Justifiably, they have become true baroque music ‘hits’. For a present-day performer, these two figures are complementary. With the musicians of Amarillis, we wanted to bring out and enhance each one’s rhythmic élan, sensibility, and formal inventiveness. Both of them led us to surpass the limits of each instrument, making them resonate together and speak with the same eloquence. Let us hope that this effervescence, which carried us throughout this recording, is infectious!” Héloïse Gaillard
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Ensemble Amarillis, Maïlys de Villoutreys, Héloïse Gaillard – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Judith & Sémélé (2022)
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Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre was a virtuoso harpsichordist, as well as the author of many pioneering works. She left an abundant output of cantatas, both secular and sacred. Here the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys, Héloise Gaillard and her Ensemble Amarillis pay tribute to her with the cantatas Judith and Sémélé, inspired by two women, who embody virtue and courage on the one hand, temerity and pride on the other. Whether intimate or more operatic, both works highlight the composer’s innate sense of drama.
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Ensemble Amarillis, Mariana Delgadillo, Maîtrise des Pays de la Loire – Jubilation vénitienne (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:18 minutes | 592 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Jubilation vénitienne” is an invitation to celebrate joy with two outstanding composers: Antonio Caldara and Antonio Vivaldi. By establishing a dialogue between their two musical worlds, this program aims to recreate, in all it’s diversity of colors, a concert in Baroque Venice where children’s voices combine with the singing of the flautino, the oboe, the trumpet and the strings, in an explosion of joy and jubilation.
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