Release Date: 25 September 2011
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 747313322930
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Lully
Description
By the age of twenty-one Jean-Baptiste Lully had become Composer of the King's Instrumental Music and for the next thirty years he almost completely dominated music life at the court and in French theatres, winning in 1672 the exclusive right to produce opera. His output ranged from Church music to ballets de cour and notable collaborations with Moliere in the form of comedies-ballets such as Le bourgeois gentilhomme. He died working, stabbing himself in the foot with his conducting cane whilst directing a performance of his Te Deum. In these works, written for the Chapel Royal, Lully is inspired to paint a whole sweep of emotions, at once melancholy, sweet, tragic, noble and victorious. Observe his mastery of colour. Listen to how choral and orchestral textures, now in five, now in ten parts, change with the rhythm of the text. Note how subtle touches of orchestral colour highlight the meaning of a word or the sweetness of a modulation.
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Various
Various
Lully
Soloists:Aradia Ens
Concert Spirituel
Concert Spirituel
Kuijken/Davis/Livingston
STEPHANE FUGET; LES EPOPEES
Le Poeme Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre
Veronique Gens; Ensemble Les Surprises; Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas
