Rivales

Bach, Johann Christian, Cherubini, Luigi, Dalayrac, Nicolas, Edelmann, Jean-Frédéric, Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Gretry, André-Ernest-Modeste, Loiseau de Persuis, Louis-Luc, Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre, różni kompozytorzy, Sacchini, Antonio

Chauvin, Julien, Gens, Veronique, Le Concert de La Loge, Piau, Sandrine

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Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens have a longstanding rapport and dreamed of making a recording together. Here they pay tribute to two singers who, like them, were born within a year of each other, Mme Dugazon (1755-1821) and Mme Saint-Huberty (1756-1812): both enjoyed triumphant careers in Paris, inspiring numerous librettists and composers. Gluck even nicknamed Saint-Huberty ‘Madame-la-Ressource’, while ‘a Dugazon’ became a generic name for the roles of naïve girls in love, and later of comical mothers. Rivals? They very likely were, given the quarrelsome spirit of the operatic world of the time, even if they never crossed paths on stage. Intermingling airs and duets, Piau and Gens here play the heroines of Gluck, Grétry, Monsigny, J. C. Bach, Piccinni, Edelmann and Cherubini. Developed in collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, this programme on the cusp between Classicism and pre-Romanticism is very much the heart of the repertory championed by Julien Chauvin’s Le Concert de la Loge.

Works:
•Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny: Aria ou suis-je aus La Belle Arsene
•Johann-Friedrich Edelmann: Mais, Thesee est absent aus Ariane dans l’île de Naxos
•Johann Christian Bach: Me Infelice aus La Clemenza di Scipione
•Christoph Willibald Gluck: Se Mai senti aus La Clemenza di Tito; Divinites du Styx aus Alceste
•Loiseau de Persuis: O Divinite tutelaire aus Fanny Morna
•Andre Modeste Gretry: Des Notre enfance unis tous deux aus L'Embarras des Richesses; Cher Objez de ma Pensee aus Aucassin et Nicolette
•Luigi Cherubini: A l'Autel aus Demophoon
•Antonio Maria Sacchini: Barbare amour, Tyran des Coeurs aus Renaud
•Nicolas Dalayrac: Ciel protecteur des malheureus aus Camille

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3/31/22

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