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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2021)

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2021)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 642 Mb | Total time: 53:34+68:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS037 | Recorded: 2019

An ancient hero, a dragon, a young goddess: love and glory are at the heart of Lullys first opera, first performed in front of Louis XIV. As in his previous works - divertissements, ballets de cour and comédies- ballets - Lully makes the voices and the orchestra sparkle, multiplying the pieces which stand out and that were appealing to the court. But with the help of the librettist Philippe Quinault, he introduced the dramatic force of French classical tragédie in an exclusively musical work: and here the audience was bewitched by the mythical love stories so sumptuously portrayed.

Eva Zaïcik, Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Vivaldi, Razzi: Nisi Dominus (2021)

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Eva Zaïcik, Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Vivaldi, Razzi: Nisi Dominus (2021)

Eva Zaïcik, Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Vivaldi, Razzi: Nisi Dominus (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 58:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 724 | Recorded: 2020

In the seventeenth century, the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice took in young orphan girls who received advanced musical instruction. The concerts given there attracted visitors from all over the world, curious to hear these divine voices which remained invisible, since the girls performed hidden behind the grilles of the chapel gallery. Vivaldi became Maestro de’Concerti of the Pietà in 1714, and it was his pupils who performed his famous Nisi Dominus.

Le Poème Harmonique, Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Vincent Dumestre - Mon amant de Saint-Jean (2023)

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Le Poème Harmonique, Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Vincent Dumestre - Mon amant de Saint-Jean (2023)

Le Poème Harmonique, Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Vincent Dumestre - Mon amant de Saint-Jean (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 249 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 138 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:32
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classicsl, Outhere Music

Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stéphanie d’Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean , their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a recital in which the atmosphere of the chansons of the Années Folles infuses early music with its sweet madness. In 1904, the great cabaret singer Yvette Guilbert was invited to the home of the Casadesus family, the founders of the Société des Instruments Anciens (Early instrument society): the Baroque fraternised with the café-concert. Around the same time, in the revue Paris qui chante, an aria by Scarlatti rubbed shoulders with the coarse language of Aristide Bruant and Paulin, while Gaston Dumestre, a singer at the cabaret Le Chat Noir (and one of Vincent’s ancestors!), sang chansons réalistes while accompanying himself on the theorbo presented to him by Oscar II of Sweden: ‘It is in language that we must seek the common driving force. These cabaret singers relished a very special flavour, a vigour, a raciness in the words of the Baroque era’, concludes Vincent Dumestre.

Vincent Dumestre, Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poeme Harmonique - Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum (2013)

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Vincent Dumestre, Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poeme Harmonique - Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum (2013)

Vincent Dumestre, Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poème Harmonique - Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 55:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # 952 | Recorded: 2013

The large-scale sacred music of the French court remains among the most neglected repertories of the Baroque era. Here's an excellent place to start with it. The Te Deum, the quintessential Catholic hymn of praise, was a favored text for big moments at court, and the two examples here must be among the finest. Jean-Baptiste Lully's Te Deum, LWV 55, during whose premiere the composer fatally stabbed himself in the foot with a staff, was composed to celebrate the Sun King's recovery, via a pretty ghastly surgery, from what appears to have been a severe case of hemorrhoids. The more cheerful occasion of Charpentier's setting was a French military victory in the Low Countries. In both cases you get full-scale splendor, with chorus, brass, and orchestra in harmonically static settings.

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Francesco Cavalli: L'Egisto (2023)

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Francesco Cavalli: L'Egisto (2023)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Francesco Cavalli: L'Egisto (2023)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 580 Mb | Total time: 125:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS076 | Recorded: 2021

In 1643 in Venice, Cavalli's new opera caused a sensation among the audience of the Teatro SanCassiano. L'Egisto takes its name from the piece's main character, an Arcadian shepherd who is misled by an ambiguous inscription into believing his love is lost. A succession of misunderstandings ensues, along with spectacular pieces of music, a scene of madness and a descent into the Underworld for this would-be Orpheus searching for his Eurydice. The sumptuousness of the music, which masterfully illustrates the emotions involved in a love quadrangle, offers Vincent Dumestre and his cast the opportunity to paint with dazzling colours and virtuoso strokes for this first great labyrinth of Baroque sentiment.

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi (2021)

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi (2021)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Michel-Richard de Lalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 59:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS048 | Recorded: 2020

Parmi les œuvres emblématiques de Versailles, les Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi figurent au premier plan. Musiques d’un Palais convoquant un monde de passions, de caractères, d’intrigues, d’échos de batailles… ennobli par le faste des trompettes et des hautbois, elles résonnent jusqu’à nos jours comme les musiques du Plus Grand Roi du Monde. Certes, ce sont des « Musiques de Table » comme on en trouve ailleurs en Europe (le Banchetto Musicale de Schein en 1617, la Tafelmusik de Telemann en 1733), mais quel Prince peut aligner pour ce faire les 24 Violons du Roi, et les vents de sa royale Ecurie ? Avec le luxe d’un orchestre d’Opéra, voici Louis XIV mangeant en public chaque jour, un moment essentiel de la journée.

Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre - Coeur: Airs de Cour Francais de la fin du XVIe siecle (2015)

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Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre - Coeur: Airs de Cour Francais de la fin du XVIe siecle (2015)

Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre - Coeur: Airs de Cour Francais de la fin du XVIe siecle (2015)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 64:09 | 341 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha | Catalog: ALPHA 213

In this new release, Vincent Dumestre’s Le Poème Harmonique once again immerses us in the France of the second half of the 16th century, which witnessed the emergence of new centres of artistic activity. These ‘bourgeois’ societies were initiated by patron princes concerned with building their prestige through the arts and letters just as much as by arms. At the same time, refined circles held by cultivated women enabled them to rub shoulders with the leading poets of the time, as well as musicians sensitive to humanist research, all profiting from a context propitious to the invention of new artistic forms and practices.

Eva Zaïcik, Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Nisi Dominus (2022)

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Eva Zaïcik, Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Nisi Dominus (2022)

Eva Zaïcik, Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Nisi Dominus (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 252 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 135 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:29
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

In the seventeenth century, the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice took in young orphan girls who received advanced musical instruction. The concerts given there attracted visitors from all over the world, curious to hear these divine voices which remained invisible, since the girls performed hidden behind the grilles of the chapel gallery. Vivaldi became Maestro de’ Concerti of the Pietà in 1714, and it was his pupils who performed his famous Nisi Dominus. Today they are succeeded by the mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, who brings out the full poignancy of the aria ‘Cum dederit’. Another motet by Vivaldi, Invicti bellate, also composed for the Pietà, features in this programme planned and conducted by Vincent Dumestre. He invites us on a musical journey centred on the figure of woman and on divine praise, with composers awaiting discovery such as Serafino Razzi (1534-1619) and Soto de Langa (1531-1611).

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2020)

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2020)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Lully: Cadmus & Hermione (2020)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 647 Mb | Total time: 122:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS037 | Recorded: 2019

An ancient hero, a dragon, a young goddess: love and glory are at the heart of Lullys first opera, first performed in front of Louis XIV. As in his previous works - divertissements, ballets de cour and comédies- ballets - Lully makes the voices and the orchestra sparkle, multiplying the pieces which stand out and that were appealing to the court. But with the help of the librettist Philippe Quinault, he introduced the dramatic force of French classical tragédie in an exclusively musical work: and here the audience was bewitched by the mythical love stories so sumptuously portrayed.

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Pagliardi: Caligula (2018) [BDRip]

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Pagliardi: Caligula (2018) [BDRip]

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Pagliardi: Caligula (2018) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2762 kbps / 29,97 fps | 82 min | 2,91 Gb
Audio: Italiano / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Alpha | Sub.: French, English

From Suetonius to Camus, Caligula has constantly inspired historians, poets and playwrights, to the point of becoming a myth: that of madness steeped in cruelty . . . Caligula raves, Caligula is crazed, but his gaze is that of the visionary, his derangement of the senses is an opening towards the fantastical. Now it is precisely that fantastical (and also comical) dimension that is inscribed in the fable set to music Giovanni Pagliardi in Venice in 1672, which Vincent Dumestre brings back to life here. But above all, this portrait of Caligula as a hero of the impossible, a showman of wonders, has been rounded off with an idea that suddenly seems self-evident: Caligula, and all the characters around him, could only be wooden actors , puppets.

Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Sebastián Durón: Coronis (2022)

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Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Sebastián Durón: Coronis (2022)

Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Sebastián Durón: Coronis (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 540 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 228 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:39:05
Classical, Opera | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular narrative, whose music was falsely attributed to Antonio Literes before Sebastián Durón (1660-1716) was acknowledged as its composer in 2009! Another peculiarity of the work is that it is sung by seven sopranos, who are even given the roles of Apollo, Neptune and the monster Triton. Only the part of an old man, the seer Proteus, is assigned to a tenor. Ana Quintans in the title role, Isabelle Druet, Anthea Pichanick, Caroline Meng and Cyril Auvity are among the cast of this colourful zarzuela, whose modern stage premiere in 2019 enjoyed great success.

Splendeurs de Versailles - Music in the Royal Court of Versailles [10CDs] (2016)

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Splendeurs de Versailles - Music in the Royal Court of Versailles [10CDs] (2016)

Splendeurs de Versailles - Music in the Royal Court of Versailles [10CDs] (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3.02 Gb | Total time: 10:47:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 260 | Recorded: 1999-2013

Versailles: its court, its atmosphere and its music… So many splendours emblematic of a monument with an incomparably rich history. The works associated with the palace have travelled down the centuries and today represent a precious part of our heritage. In this ten-CD set, Alpha retraces the musical life of the unique and luminous universe of Versailles. Le Poème Harmonique, Café Zimmermann, Capriccio Stravagante and many others invite themselves into the company of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Jean-Henry d’Anglebert and share with us for a few hours the sumptuous concerts that made Versailles a place like no other.

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Phaéton (2019)

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Phaéton (2019)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Phaéton (2019)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 159 min | 7,57 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | Sub: English, Deutsch | Recorded: 2018

This is the story of Phaéton, valiant driver of the Sun’s chariot, led here by Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar, armed with a rich acquaintance of two decades of Lullyist cooperation. Just like at the time, they will make the Versailles Opera resonate with this production of this flamboyant tragédie lyrique which was first presented in Perm in Russia in 2018.

Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Allegri & Monteverdi: Anamorfosi (2019)

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Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Allegri & Monteverdi: Anamorfosi (2019)

Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre - Allegri & Monteverdi: Anamorfosi (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 368 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 193 Mb | Covers included | 01:13:08
Classical, Choral | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Allegri’s Miserere, its heartbreaking harmonies, its verses alternately chanted and ornamented, its seraphic voices: sheer Baroque magic. Since its composition in Rome in 1630, the work has constantly been transformed. Le Poème Harmonique approaches the score through the prism of its metamorphoses, the ornaments and transpositions added since the time when Mozart himself transcribed the piece, then jealously guarded by the Vatican, which punished publication of it with anathema.

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique [20CDs] (2019)

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Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique [20CDs] (2019)

Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique [20CD] (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 5,79 Gb | Total time: 21h 28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 568 | Recorded: 1998-2017

Le Poème Harmonique, one of the most important early music ensembles in France, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For this occasion ALPHA CLASSICS has compiled twenty CDs from the catalogue in an attractively designed box. Award-winning recordings can be heard, some of them with an unusual repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. For loyal fans and those who want to become fans!