Maïlys de Villoutreys – Romances d’Empire – Sophie Gail (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Maïlys de Villoutreys – Romances d’Empire – Sophie Gail (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:14 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles

Like a shooting star, the french singer Sophie Gail filled her short life with music and passion. Publishing her first romances at he age of 15 in 1790, this divorcée who had a free life (with four children from four different fathers) achieved fame as a composer at Opéra-Comique in 1813, while having her romances hummed by all of the Empire’s “Belle société”.
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La Rêveuse, Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton & Maïlys de Villoutreys – Buxtehude: Cantates pour voix seule – Manuscrits d’Uppsala (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

La Rêveuse, Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton & Maïlys de Villoutreys – Buxtehude: Cantates pour voix seule – Manuscrits d’Uppsala (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:22 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

In the Seventeenth Century, Buxtehude and his contemporaries composed an innovative sacred repertory for solo voice, nurtured by Italian cantatas, rhetoric and drama, which brought renown to the Hanseatic cities of north Germany and inspired the young Bach.

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Juliette Hurel, Maïlys De Villoutreys, Ensemble les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Bach Inspiration (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Juliette Hurel, Maïlys De Villoutreys, Ensemble les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Bach Inspiration (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:29 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Virtuoso flautist Juliette Hurel offers us two pillars of the Cantor’s work for transverse flute: the essential Suite in B Minor for flute and strings, which ends in the world-famous Badinerie, and the unique Partita (or Sonata, the editors can’t quite decide) for solo transverse flute; and the no-less famous BWV 1013 of the 1720s. Around these twin pillars, Hurel weaves an intricate and varied tapestry, bringing in the Sonata for Trio BWV 1038, which gives every indication of being the work of Johann Sebastian, whereas it was in fact written by Carl Philipp Emanuel – or, at the very least, was a father-son collaboration. And finally we can hear the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys performing the St Matthew Passion, the “Coffee Cantata”, the Cantata “Ich habe genug” and the Easter Oratorio, in which the solo flute takes centre stage. By way of accompaniment we have the Les Surprises ensemble, a rather continuo string quintet and, on the keyboards (harpsichord and organ), we have Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.

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Ensemble Amarillis, Maïlys de Villoutreys, Héloïse Gaillard – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Judith & Sémélé (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ensemble Amarillis, Maïlys de Villoutreys, Héloïse Gaillard – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Judith & Sémélé (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:54 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Evidence

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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