Anthony Lewis - Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (1965) [2019]
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BAND/ARTIST: Anthony Lewis
- Title: Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
- Year Of Release: 1965 [2019]
- Label: Decca / Eloquence
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 02:25:47
- Total Size: 761 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
The first commercial recording of Rameau’s first opera.
Thanks to several Eloquence releases, the pioneering work of Anthony Lewis in the field of Baroque opera is now readily available: ‘The Fairy Queen’ (482 7449) of Purcell, Handel’s ‘Semele’ (482 5055) and a compilation albums of Handel arias (482 4759) were all critically acclaimed at the time of their original release in the 1950s and 60s and they have gained a new and appreciative audience through the new Eloquence remasterings.
As director of an annual series of staged operas at the Barber Institute in the University of Birmingham, Lewis conveyed to first a local audience and then a more international one with these Decca and Argo recordings that Baroque opera should no longer be the preserve of scholars but contained as much lively and powerful drama as the works of Mozart and Puccini.
Rameau’s place in the pantheon of Baroque composers alongside Bach and Handel is now assured but only thanks to the persuasive force and intensity of recordings such as ‘Hippolyte et Aricie’ which was made in Decca’s West Hampstead studios in July 1965, a few months after the Barber Institute staging. The plot describes Phaedra’s incestuous love for her son Hippolytus, his equally hopeless love for Aricia and much violent divine intervention and retribution.
Even the usually sober Grove dictionary praises it as ‘a powerful and committed performance’. In fact this Classical-themed tragedy never enjoyed the reputation of other stage works by Rameau during his lifetime, but it is now recognised (again, not least, thanks to Lewis’s efforts) as one of the peaks of the composer’s output.
Tracks:
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Bergers, vous allez voir combien"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: Prélude.Inexorable Roi de L'Empire infernal!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Prélude."Quoi! La terre et le ciel contre moi"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Prélude."Ne vous alarmez pas d'un projet téméraire"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: "Princesse, ce grand jour par des noeuds éternels"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Marche."Dans ce paisible séjour"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: "Princesse, quels apprêts me frappent"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: "Temple sacré, séjour tranquille"
Hippolyte et Aricie: Overture
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: "Eh bien! viendra-t-il en ces lieux"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: Prélude."Cruelle mère des amours"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: Prélude.Neptune vous demande grâce"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Ah! qu'on daigne du moins.Puisque Pluton"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Dieux! que d'infortunés gémissent"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Qu'à servir mon courroux tout l'enfer se prépare!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Laisse-moi respirer, implacable Furie!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: Chaconne
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Grands Dieux! de quels remords je me sens dechiré!
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: "Quelle plainte en ces lieux m'appelle?"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: "Faisons partout voler nos traits!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: "C'en est donc fait, cruel, rien n'arrête vos pas"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: Prélude."Ah! faut-il, en un jour"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: "Quels biens! Je frémis quand j'y pense"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: Marche."Que ce rivage retentisse"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: Marche."Chantons sur la musette"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Voi des Zephirs.Où suis-je transporté?"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Peuples toujours soumis à mon obéissance"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Descendez, brillante immortelle"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Où suis-je? De mes sens j'ai recouvré l'usage"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Arrête!.Pour un fils quelle pitié vous presse?"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Rossignols amoureux, répondez à nos voix"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Prélude."Mes yeux commencent d'entrevoir"
Personnel:
Aricie – Angela Hickey
Hippolyte – Robert Tear
High Priestess – Sylvia Rhys-Thomas
Phèdre – Janet Baker
Œnone – Patricia Blans
Diane – Rae Woodland
Arcus – Edgar Fleet
Thésée – John Shirley-Quirk
Tisiphone – Gerald English
Pluto – Roger Stalman
Fate I – John Whitworth
Fate II – Keith Erwen
Fate III – John Noble
Mercury – Nigel Rogers
Priestess – Jill Gomez |
Neptune – Christopher Keyte
St. Anthony Singers
Thurston Dart, harpsichord
English Chamber Orchestra
Anthony Lewis
Thanks to several Eloquence releases, the pioneering work of Anthony Lewis in the field of Baroque opera is now readily available: ‘The Fairy Queen’ (482 7449) of Purcell, Handel’s ‘Semele’ (482 5055) and a compilation albums of Handel arias (482 4759) were all critically acclaimed at the time of their original release in the 1950s and 60s and they have gained a new and appreciative audience through the new Eloquence remasterings.
As director of an annual series of staged operas at the Barber Institute in the University of Birmingham, Lewis conveyed to first a local audience and then a more international one with these Decca and Argo recordings that Baroque opera should no longer be the preserve of scholars but contained as much lively and powerful drama as the works of Mozart and Puccini.
Rameau’s place in the pantheon of Baroque composers alongside Bach and Handel is now assured but only thanks to the persuasive force and intensity of recordings such as ‘Hippolyte et Aricie’ which was made in Decca’s West Hampstead studios in July 1965, a few months after the Barber Institute staging. The plot describes Phaedra’s incestuous love for her son Hippolytus, his equally hopeless love for Aricia and much violent divine intervention and retribution.
Even the usually sober Grove dictionary praises it as ‘a powerful and committed performance’. In fact this Classical-themed tragedy never enjoyed the reputation of other stage works by Rameau during his lifetime, but it is now recognised (again, not least, thanks to Lewis’s efforts) as one of the peaks of the composer’s output.
Tracks:
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Bergers, vous allez voir combien"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: Prélude.Inexorable Roi de L'Empire infernal!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Prélude."Quoi! La terre et le ciel contre moi"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Prélude."Ne vous alarmez pas d'un projet téméraire"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: "Princesse, ce grand jour par des noeuds éternels"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Marche."Dans ce paisible séjour"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: "Princesse, quels apprêts me frappent"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: "Temple sacré, séjour tranquille"
Hippolyte et Aricie: Overture
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: "Eh bien! viendra-t-il en ces lieux"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: Prélude."Cruelle mère des amours"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: Prélude.Neptune vous demande grâce"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Ah! qu'on daigne du moins.Puisque Pluton"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Dieux! que d'infortunés gémissent"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Qu'à servir mon courroux tout l'enfer se prépare!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II: "Laisse-moi respirer, implacable Furie!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: Chaconne
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Grands Dieux! de quels remords je me sens dechiré!
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: "Quelle plainte en ces lieux m'appelle?"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: "Faisons partout voler nos traits!"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: "C'en est donc fait, cruel, rien n'arrête vos pas"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV: Prélude."Ah! faut-il, en un jour"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: "Quels biens! Je frémis quand j'y pense"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act III: Marche."Que ce rivage retentisse"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: Marche."Chantons sur la musette"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Voi des Zephirs.Où suis-je transporté?"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Peuples toujours soumis à mon obéissance"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Descendez, brillante immortelle"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Où suis-je? De mes sens j'ai recouvré l'usage"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Arrête!.Pour un fils quelle pitié vous presse?"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: "Rossignols amoureux, répondez à nos voix"
Hippolyte et Aricie, Act I: Prélude."Mes yeux commencent d'entrevoir"
Personnel:
Aricie – Angela Hickey
Hippolyte – Robert Tear
High Priestess – Sylvia Rhys-Thomas
Phèdre – Janet Baker
Œnone – Patricia Blans
Diane – Rae Woodland
Arcus – Edgar Fleet
Thésée – John Shirley-Quirk
Tisiphone – Gerald English
Pluto – Roger Stalman
Fate I – John Whitworth
Fate II – Keith Erwen
Fate III – John Noble
Mercury – Nigel Rogers
Priestess – Jill Gomez |
Neptune – Christopher Keyte
St. Anthony Singers
Thurston Dart, harpsichord
English Chamber Orchestra
Anthony Lewis
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