Conductor(s): Brown, Ryan
Label: Naxos
Genre: Opera; Vocal
Period: Baroque
Catalogue No: 8.557993
Barcode: 0747313299324
Release Date: 09/2007

RAMEAU: Operatic Arias for Haute-contre

This recording of airs from Rameau’s heroic ballets and lyric tragedies features the renowned haute-contre Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, one of the main exponents of the French Baroque repertoire for the last decade and who, most recently, has been closely associated with Rameau’s opera Platée. In these excerpts, Rameau’s colourful palette of musical characterization traverses a wide range of emotion, from the profoundly moving Lieux funestes (Dardanus) to the witty and imaginative air Charmant Bacchus (Platée) when, for example, Rameau cleverly employs ‘drunken’ part writing under Thespis’ words “Dussé-je être mal écouté” (“Even at the risk of being misunderstood”).

Tracklist

Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Autreau, Jacques - Lyricist
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
1 Act I: Ariette badine: Que ce sejour est agreable (Platee) 03:52
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
2 Act I: Ariette vive: Quittez nymphes, quittez (Platee) 02:26
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
3 Act II: A l'aspect de ce nuage (Platee) 07:56
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
4 Act III: Marche pour la danse - Dans cette fete: Mouvement de menuet - Marche pour la danse (Platee) 03:45
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
5 La Guirlande de fleurs, Scene I: Peut-on etre a la fois si tendre (Myrtil) 07:57
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Bernard, Pierre-Joseph - Lyricist
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
6 Castor et Pollux, Act IV: Sejour de l'eternelle paix (Castor) 04:48
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Cahusac, Louis de - Lyricist
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
7 Nais, Act III: Prelude: La jeune nymphe que j'adore (Neptune) 07:34
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
8 Les Festes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Act I: Gigue - Air graieux: Que vous connaissez mal (Osiris) 06:43
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Leclerc de La Bruere, Charles-Antoine - Lyricist
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
9 Dardanus, Act IV: Lieux funestes (Dardanus) 04:59
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Cahusac, Louis de - Lyricist
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
10 Zoroastre, Act II: A mes tristes regards (Zoroastre) 03:45
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
11 Zais, Act II: Prelude: Charmes de coeurs ambitieux… (Zais) 04:46
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
12 Nais, Act III: Cessez de ravager la terre (Neptune) 02:54
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Autreau, Jacques - Lyricist
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)
13 Platee, Prologue: Ariette un peu legere: Charmant Bacchus (Thespis) 02:39
Fouchécourt, Jean-Paul (haute-contre)
Brown, Ryan (Conductor)
Opera Lafayette Orchestra (Orchestra)

Total Playing Time: 01:04:04