Loris Barrucand – Fêtes persanes (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Loris Barrucand - Fêtes persanes (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Loris Barrucand – Fêtes persanes (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:42 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles

The East and its Thousand and One Nights (published in France in 1717) were a fantasy of French opera, and Rameau wrote on this theme for three decades. Far from merely shifting the action to the mysterious lands of “Persia” with its cruel yet salacious customs, the composer amplified the personalities of its characters and made their music sparkle more than ever.

The Suites taken from Rameau’s greatest masterpieces, from Les Indes galantes to Les Boréades, are reproduced with great energy by the two virtuoso harpsichords of Clément Geoffroy and Loris Barrucand. The century of Louis XV dances to the rhythm of the tambourins, sizzling irresistibly with “savages”, flowers, pleasures and infernal spirits.
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Loris Barrucand – Rebel & Boismortier: Les caractères d’Ulysse. Suites pour deux clavecins (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Loris Barrucand – Rebel & Boismortier: Les caractères d’Ulysse. Suites pour deux clavecins (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:01 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles

The discovery of Rebel’s (1666-1747) Dance Symphonies, a genre mixing dance and pantomime in which the narration is delivered by the dancer alone, was a defining moment in the passion of harpsichordist duo Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy. Rebel, the author of a single Lyric Tragedy, Ulysse (1703), and Elémens (1737) a suite of symphonies famed for its initial Chaos, was first and foremost a composer of symphonies that were made to be danced. Among them is Les Caractères de la Danse (1715), an uninterrupted succession of fourteen dances that enjoyed a dazzling success. Remaining faithful to his time, Rebel intended for them to be played “like a piece on the harpsichord”. So why not two? The mastery of four virtuoso hands brings the two historic harpsichords of the Château de Versailles alive, playing them as a duet for the first time. The ten year partnership of the two performers brings all the flamboyance of Boismortier’s Ballet de Village to Ruckers’ (1628) and Blanchet’s (1746) harpsichords, while distilling the lightness of Belle Danse and the rebellious Characters of Ulysse.

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