Les Paladins & Jérôme Correas - Molière at the Opera (Stage music by Jean-Baptiste Lully) (2016)

With 'Molière à l opéra' Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins bring their much-admired combination of Baroque stylishness and varied vocal techniques to comédies-ballets composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marc-Antoine Charpentier during the reign of Louis XIV. The musical and theatrical partnership involving Lully and Molière they were dubbed 'les deux Baptiste' was one of the most invigorating ever entered into, marrying melody, words, acting and a shared hunger for fame. The collaboration spanned ten works over a decade from 1661. Although Molière never provided the words for a Lully opera, the great dramatist clearly inspired the composer in his later tragédies lyriques, a view upheld by the essayist for this recording, Elisabeth Giuliani. As well as presenting scenes from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, this new Glossa recording draws on the humorous end of the Molière/Lully partnership in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac as well as more tragic airs from 'Psyché', by way of the trio grotesque from Charpentier s score for Le Mariage forcé. Luanda Siqueira, Jean-François Lombard, Jérôme Billy and Virgile Ancely are the versatile vocal quartet brought together by Jerôme Correas, alive to the daunting and frequently crazy characterisations demanded by Lully and Molière.

Tracklist:
01. La pastorale comique, LWV 33: Déesse des appas … O toi, qui peux rendre agréable - Jean-François Lombard
02. La pastorale comique, LWV 33: Ah, qu'il est beau… Qu'il est joli - Jean-François Lombard
03. La princesse d'Elide: Quand l'amour à nos yeux - Luanda Siqueira
04. Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41: La polygamie est un cas pendable - Jérôme Billy
05. Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41: Piglialo sù - Jérôme Billy
06. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Sé que me muero de amor - Jean-François Lombard
07. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Ay qué locura - Virgile Ancely
08. Les amants magnifiques: Quand je plaisais à tes yeux - Luanda Siqueira
09. Le Sicilien, LWV 34: Le sicilien: Ouverture - Paladins, Les
10. Le mariage forcé: La, la, la, bonjour - Jean-François Lombard
11. Psyché, LWV 56: Deh, piangete al pianto mio - Luanda Siqueira
12. Psyché, LWV 56: Le dieu qui nous engage - Jean-François Lombard
13. Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42: Menuet - Paladins, Les
14. Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42: Vous chantez sous ces feuillages - Jean-François Lombard
15. Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42: Ah! Que sur notre coeur - Luanda Siqueira
16. Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42: Dormez, beaux yeux - Jean-François Lombard
17. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: À moi, Monsieur - Luanda Siqueira
18. Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Quels spectacles charmants - Luanda Siqueira