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Release Date: 19 September 2025
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3701624511695
Composer/Series: Le Coeur et la Raison
Description
Since the creation of their ensemble La Nereide in 2019, the three sopranos Camille Allerat, Julie Roset and Ana Vieira Leite have wanted to tell stories about women, women who are courageous, vulnerable, passionate, powerful, secretive -- and sometimes all of these at once. Le Coeur et la Raison imagines the fate of a young noblewoman sent to the Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, where she received a meticulous education, particularly in music; she took part in services and sang works by its organist Louis-Nicolas Clerambault (1676-1749) -- including his magnificent Miserere -- and by Jean-Francois Lalouette (1651-1728), a pupil of Lully. When she returned to her family, however, she sang the melodies of fashionable court airs, which she then shared with her fellow students at Saint-Cyr, to the great disapproval of the religious authorities. She and her colleagues then rewrote the song texts transforming the declarations of love into statements of faith. Today, these three friends and artists present an emotionally charged programme, accompanied by a first-rate instrumental trio.
Justin Taylor
Emmanuel Ceysson; Veronique Gens; Quatuor Voce
Barbara Hannigan; David Chalmin; Katia Labeque; Marielle Labeque
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Ensemble Altera; Christopher Lowrey
Paavo Jarvi; Estonian Festival Orchestra; Kalle Randalu; Estonian National Male Choir; Ellerhein Gi
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich; Paavo Jarvi
Theo Ould
Anna Lucia Richter, Gurzenich Orchestra Cologne, Jordan de Souza
Schola Romana Ensemble
Richard Resch; Ensemble La Silla
Ensemble Altera; Christopher Lowrey
Concerto Soave
Chanticleer
Veronique Gens; Herve Niquet; Choeur et Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
Reginald Mobley; Brandon Acker; Douglas Balliett
