Les Épopées, Les Pages etz les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles & Stéphane Fuget – Lully: Te Deum (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:24 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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Of all the performances of the Te Deum conducted during Lully’s lifetime, history retains only the last, which sealed the composer’s death in 1686: it was while beating time that, carried away by his zeal, he pierced his foot with the end of his cane… Ten years earlier, Lully composed this considerable score, for the christening of his own son, thus establishing an “official” genre for a century. Also intended to celebrate the great events of the reign, the grand motet Exaudiat Te Dominus is a dazzling glorification of the King, whose arms God has come to bear. Stephane Fuget, with his ensemble Les Epopees, brings to a close this collection devoted to Lully’s sumptuous Grands Motets, accompanied by the Pages et Chantres of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles: To the Glory of God and the King!
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Les Epopées, Stéphane Fuget – Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:02:06 minutes | 3,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ulysses and Monteverdi: passion and action at the heart of musical drama. Penelope sings of her endless wait, her hope to see the king of her heart again, while her suitors besiege her to take her hand and the throne. The return of Ulysses to Ithaca after twenty years of wandering brings the drama to a close. Travelling incognito disguised as an old man, he arrives at the palace for the contest that Penelope has arranged: whoever manages to bend Odysseus’ former bow will have the hand of the queen. The old man in rags presents himself to the court, and achieves his revenge… Stéphane Fuget conducts this masterpiece, using every instrumental spell to fulfil his great ambition: to restore to Monteverdi’s music and singing all of it’s ornaments and colors, thanks to a magnificent cast and their passionate support.
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Stéphane Fuget – Benedictus (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:18 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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Here, four exceptional Grands Motets composed by Lully to the greatest glory of Louis XIV have been brought together: Plaude Laetare Gallia was performed in 1668 as a jubilant celebration of the birth of his first son, the Grand Dauphin; Benedictus is a piece of extraordinary architecture that transcends the sacred drama; Notus in Judea Deus, composed in 1685 shortly before Lully’s death, is a true victory song celebrating the glory of God; finally, Domine Salvum fac Regem, an energetic “God save the King”, was systematically sung in honour of the sovereign. The sublime Magnificat by Henry Du Mont, who was in charge of the Music of the King’s Chapel until 1683, adds yet more splendour. Stephane Fuget has brought together the best performers, a veritable “army of generals” with a vast choir composed of exceptional singers, to bring these legendary pieces back to life amid the magnificence of Versailles.
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Stéphane Fuget & Les Epopées – Auprès du feu l’on fait l’amour (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:29 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Percé jusques au fond du coeur” (“Pierced to my heart’s depths”) is a tragic proclamation of Le Cid’s voice, at last put to music by “Mr Charpentier, famed for a thousand works that charmed all of France”. This collection of courtly arias, serious songs and drinking songs, played both at the Court of Louis XV and in the inner circles of the French bourgeoisie, is a marvellous maze on the Map of Tendre developed by Charpentier, a poet-musician whose sophistication vies with an irresistible sense of theatricality! Under the direction of Stéphane Fuget, the cream of French vocalists restores the original aura of these gems, with glittering ornamentation.
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Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget – Lully – Dies Irae (Collection Grands motets, Vol. 1) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:07 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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The notion of interpretation constantly raises the question of how to read a score, and therefore of the very subject matter of the score. Particularly in the Baroque period, and especially in the seventeenth-century, the score is but an infrastructure that the composer leaves behind to allow his work to be brought to life. One should not be led astray by it as you might by a trompel’œil; it lacks a great deal of information: nuances, instrumentation, ornaments, playing styles, etc. The majority of these composers thus leave the performers a great deal of latitude for the completion of their scores in order to bring them to back to life.
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