Lully - Phaeton / Люлли - Фаэтон 1994

Lully - Phaeton / Люлли - Фаэтон

Жанр: Classical opera
Страна-производитель диска: Made in Germany
Год издания диска: 1994
Издатель (лейбл): Erato Disques S.A. / Radio France
Номер по каталогу: 4509-91737-2
Дата записи: 1993
Аудиокодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 71'02 + 69'20 / 2 Hours 24 Mins. / 02:19:51
Источник: релизер
-источник/ник/другое: Bodtje, подарок; Рой Моврич - сканы (jpeg) и cue; wdilbert - сканы (png); Caterina Sforza - нечеловеческая работа с cue, доп. сканы
: да, полный авторский буклет pdf, 203 страницы; также сканы старинной партитуры

Треклист

CD1

1. Prologue: Ouverture

2. Cherchons La Paix Dans Cet Asile

3. Dans Cette Paisible Retraite

4. Dans Ces Lieux, Tout Rit Sans Cesse

5. Que Les Mortels Se Rejouissent

6. Un Heros Qui Merite Une Gloire Immortelle

7. Suivons Ce Heros, Suivez-Nous

8. Air Pour Les Suivants De Saturne

9. Plaisirs Venez Sans Crainte

10. On A Vu Ce Heros Terrible Dans La Guerre

11. Reprise De L'ouverture

12. Act 1: Scene 1: Heureuse Une Ame Indifferente

13. Scene 2: Je Ne Vous Croyais Pas Dans Ce Lieu Solitaire

14. Scene 3: Vous Passiez Sans Me Voir

15. Scene 4: Vous Paraissez Chagrin, Mon Fils

16. Scene 5: Heureux, Qui Peut Voir Du Rivage

17. Scene 5: Prenez Soin Sur Ces Bords Des Troupeaux De Neptune

18. Scene 6: Vous Avec Qui Le Sang Me Lie

19. Scene 7: Que Protee Avec Nous Partage

20. Scene 7: Le Plaisir Est Necessaire

21. Scene 7: Vos Jeux Ont Des Appas, Je Les Quitte Avec Peine

22. Scene 7: C'est Un Secret Qu'il Faut Qu'on Vous Arrache

23. Scene 8: Le Sort De Phaëton Se Decouvre А Mes Yeux

24. Scene 8: Reprise

25. Act 2: Scene 1: Protee En A Trop Dit, Je Fremis Du Danger

26. Scene 2: Il Me Fuit, L'inconstant!

27. Scene 3: Que L'incertitude Est Un Rigoureux Tourment

28. Scene 4: Quel Malheur

29. Scene 4: Que Mon Sort Serait Doux

CD2

1. Act 2: Scene 5: Roys Qui Pour Souverain Devez Me Reconnaitre

2. Scene 5: Que De Tous Cotes On Entende Le Nom De Phaeton

3. Scene 5: Chaconne

4. Scene 5: Petit Air Pour Les Mesmes

5. Act 3. Scene 1: Ah Phaeton Est-Il Possible...

6. Scene 1: Pour Regir L'univers Les Destins M'ont Fait Naitre

7. Scene 2: Suivez-La, Ma Presence Irrite Ses Douleurs

8. Scene 3: Songez-Vous Qu'isis Est Ma Mere?

9. Scene 4: Marche

10. Scene 4: Air Pour Les Mesmes

11. Scene 4: O Vous Pour Qui L'amour Des Plus Beaux De Ses Noeuds

12. Scene 4: Nous Reverons Votre Puissance

13. Scene 4: Vous Qui Servez Isis

14. Scene 5: Entree Des Furies

15. Scene 6: Le Ciel Trouble Votre Bonheur

16. Scene 6: Vous Etes Son Fils, Je Le Jure

17. Scene 6: Ce Dieu Semble Approuver Le Sement Que Je Fais

18. Act 4. Scene 1: Sans La Dieu Qui Vous Eclaire

19. Scene 1: C'est Par Vous, O Soleil, Que Le Ciel S'illumine

20. Scene 1: Redoublez La Rejouissance

21. Scene 1: Air

22. Scene 1: Dans Ce Palais, Bravez L'envie

23. Scene 2: Approchez, Phaeton, Que Rien Ne Vous Etonne

24. Scene 2: C'est Toi Que J'en Atteste

25. Scene 2: Tous Mes Tresors Vous Sont Ouverts

26. Scene 2: Allez Repandre La Lumiere

27. Act 5. Scene 1: Assemblez-Vous, Habitans De Ces Lieux

28. Scene 2: Dieu Qui Vous Declarez Mon Pere

29. Scene 3: O Rigoureux Martyre

30. Scene 3: Dieu! Epaphus!

31. Scene 3: Helas, Une Chaоne Si Belle

32. Scene 4: Que L'on Chante, Que Tout Reponde

33. Scene 4: Bourree - Premier Air

34. Scene 4: Ce Beau Jour Ne Permet Qu'а L'aurore

35. Scene 5: Changer Ces Doux Concerts En Des Plaintes Funebres

36. Scene 5: C'est Votre Secours Que J'implore

37. Scene 5: Dieu Qui Lancez Le Tonnerre

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Исполнители

Jean-Baptiste Lully
Phaëton, LWV 61 (1683)
Howard Crook - Phaëton (Tenor)
Rachel Yakar - Clymène (Soprano)
Jennifer Smith - Théone (Soprano)
Véronique Gens - Libye (Soprano)
Gérard Théruel - Epaphus (Baritone)
Philippe Huttenlocher - Mérops (Baritone)
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt - Triton, Le Soleil, La Déesse de la Terre (Tenor)
Laurent Naouri - Saturne, Protée (Baritone)
Virginie Pochon - Astrée, Une Heure du jour (Soprano)
Jérôme Varnier - L'Automne, Jupiter
Florence Couderc - Une Bergère, Une Heure du jour (Soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Sagittarius Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Audio CD (June 7, 1994)

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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Beguiling to my ears are the many dances at which Lully excelled. In short, all this is engaging music, imaginatively performed and thoroughly entertaining. Recorded sound is excellent.
Marc Minkowski now adds the tragedie en musique, Phaeton, to a steadily growing discography of Lully's operas, to which William Christie (Atys, 7/87), Philippe Herreweghe (Armide, 8/93) and Jean-Claude Malgoire (Alceste, 4/93), have also made notable contributions. Phaeton was first produced not at the Palais-Royal Theatre in Paris but modestly at Versailles in January 1683. In the spring of that year it transferred to the Palais-Royal and was well enough thought of to enjoy revivals at regular intervals into the early 1740s. Indeed, rather as Atys became known as the 'King's opera' and Isis as the musicians', Phaeton acquired its sobriquet, 'the opera of the people'. Among the many attractive airs 'Helas! Une chaine si belle' (Act 5) was apparently a favourite duet of Parisian audiences, while 'Que mon sort serait doux' (Act 2), another duet, was highly rated by Lully himself. In 1688 Phaeton was chosen to inaugurate the new Royal Academy of Music at Lyon where, as Jerome de la Gorce remarks in his excellent introduction, it was so successful 'that people came to see it from forty leagues around'. The present recording is a co-production between Erato and Radio France, set up to mark the occasion of the opening of the new Opera House at Lyon.
The libretto is by Lully's regular collaborator, Philippe Quinault, who based his version of the famous legend on the account in Ovid's Metamorphoses. That is, of course, after the customary adulatory Prologue in which a return to the Golden Age is envisaged, with the promise of peace and pleasure. Phaeton is loved by Theone, daughter of the god Protee. But Phaeton is ambitious, with his eye on the Egyptian throne; and the quickest, surest path to that is to marry Libye, daughter of the Egyptian king, Merops. Merops not only offer Libye in marriage to Phaeton but announces his abdication in favour of his proposed son-in-law. But Phaeton has reckoned without the intervention of Epaphus, the disappointed lover of Libya. He questions Phaeton's pedigree obliging Phaeton to pay a visit to the Palace of the Sun so that his father, the Sun God, can declare his legitimacy. That is still not enough for Phaeton who wants to prove his father's identity by driving his chariot. The remainder of the story is indeed, legendary. Phaeton loses control of the Chariot of the Sun and Jupiter, seeing that his lack of horsemanship could set the Earth on fire, strikes him with a thunderbolt. Phaeton plunges to the ground and is killed.
All this afforded composer and librettist ample opportunity for evocative and colourful writing and the score is generously endowed with divertissements, an invigorating overture and a supple swiftly moving chaconne. The casting is effective, by and large, and notably for the stylish, alluring and impassioned singing of Veronique Gens. Hers is one of the finest voices engaged at the moment in French baroque music and she goes from strength to strength. This much is apparent right from the start where her melancholy air, 'Heureuse une ame indifferente' ('Happy the soul that is indifferent') strikes an affectingly sombre note. Jennifer Smith is authoritative as the hapless princess Theone; her diction is excellent and her careful placing of notes comparably so. The exchanges with Phaeton are passionately sung, with Howard Crook in the title-role engaging vigorously in the dialogue. Only occasionally, as in her touching Act 2 monologue 'Il me fait, l'inconstant' is there the slightest hint of vocal strain. Third in this impressive triumvirate of princesses is Rachel Yakar who, as Clymene, Phaeton's mother, is affectio