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| Jean-Baptiste Lully: Psyche | 
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Category: Music
Publisher: Cpo Records
Studio: Cpo Records
Manufacturer: Cpo Records
Label: Cpo Records
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 761203736720
EAN: 0761203736720
ASIN: B0019BCKNE
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Prologue. Ouverture | | • | Prologue. Recit. Ce n'est plus le temps de la Guerre | | • | Prologue. Air pour Driades, Silvains - Dialogue de Vertumne et de Palemon | | • | Prologue. Menuet de Flore. Menuet - Est-on sage | | • | Prologue. Choeur. Nous goutons une paix profonds | | • | Prologue. Pourquoy du Ciel m'obliger a descendre? | | • | Prologue. Symphonie | | • | Prologue. Mon Fils, si tu plains mes mal-heurs | | • | Prologue. Entr'Acte (Ouverture) | | • | Act 1. Scene 1. Ritournelle. Enfin ma Soeur, le Cielest appaise | | • | Act 1. Scene 1. Tout succede a nos desir | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Ah! Princesse! | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Pleurons, pleurons | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Plainte Italienne | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Deh, piangete al pianto mio | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Rispondete a miei lamenti | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Com' esser puo fra voi | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Nume fiero | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Air | | • | Act 1. Scene 2. Ahi ch'indarno si tarda | | • | Act 1. Scene 3. Psyche vient, a la voir je tremble | | • | Act 1. Scene 4. Seigneur, vous soupirez vous-mesme? | | • | Act 1. Scene 4. Entr'Acte. Air |
Disc 2
| • | Act 2. Scene 1. Ritournelle. Cyclopes, achevez ce superbe palais | | • | Act 2. Scene 2. Pressez-vous ce Travail que l'Amour vous demande? | | • | Act 2. Scene 2. Les Forgerons-Depeschez, preparez ces lieux | | • | Act 2. Scene 2. Ritournelle. Zervez bien un Dieu si charmant | | • | Act 2. Scene 3. Ritournelle pour Scene 3. Quoy, vous vous employez pour la fiere Psyche | | • | Act 2. Scene 4. Prelude pour Scene 4 | | • | Act 2. Scene 4. Ou suis-je? | | • | Act 2. Scene 5. Quels agreables sons ont frappe mes oreilles? | | • | Act 2. Scene 6. Et bien, Psyche, des cruautez du Sort | | • | Act 2. Scene 6. Aimable Jeunesse | | • | Act 2. Scene 6. Air - L'Amour a des charmes | | • | Act 2. Scene 6. Entr'Acte. Air | | • | Act 3. Ritournelle | | • | Act 3. Scene 1. Pompe que ce Palais de tous costez etale | | • | Act 3. Scene 2. Que fais-tu! | | • | Act 3. Scene 4. Arrestez, cher Amant, ou fuiez-vous si viste? | | • | Act 3. Scene 5. Ah! Nymphe, venez-vous soulager mes ennuis? | | • | Act 3. Scene 6. Vous m'abandonnez-donc, cruel & cher Amant? | | • | Act 3. Scene 7. Arreste, c'est trop tost renoncer a l'espoir | | • | Act 3. Scene 7. Entr'Acte. Air |
Disc 3
| • | Act 4. Scene 1. Par quels noirs & facheux passages | | • | Act 4. Scene 2. Prelude pour Scene 2 - Ou penses-tu porter tes pas | | • | Act 4. Scene 2. Air des Demons | | • | Act 4. Scene 3. Air pour Scene 3 - Venez, Nymphes de l'Acheron | | • | Act 4. Scene 3. Entr'Acte. Air | | • | Act 5. Ritournelle | | • | Act 5. Scene 1. Si je fais vanite de ma tendresse extreme | | • | Act 5. Scene 2. Enfin, insolente Rivale | | • | Act 5. Scene 3. Vous croyez trop la jalouze colere | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Prelude pour Scene derniere - Venus veut-elle resister? | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Prelude pour Apollon - Recit. Unissons-nous, Troupe Immortelle | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Choeur. Celebrons ce grand Jour | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Prelude pour Bacchus, Mome et Mars - Recit. Si quelque fois | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Recit. Je cherche a medire | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Choeur. Chantons les plaisirs charmants | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Premier Air pour Bergers - Chanson. Le Dieu qui nous engage | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Air - Chanson. Ce seroit grand dommage | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Deuxieme Air - Gardez-vous, Beautez severes | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Air - Chanson. On ne peut aimer sans peines | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Air pour Menades - Chanson. Admirons le Jus de la Treille | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Deuxieme Air - Chanson. Bacchus veut qu'on boive a longs traits | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Air - Chanson. Ce Dieu rend nos voeux satisfaits | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Trio. Voulez-vous des douceurs parfaites? | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Air - Chanson. Plaisantons, ne pardonnons rien | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Prelude de Trompettes pour Mars | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Chanson. Laissons en paix toute la Terre | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Derniere Entree | | • | Act 5. Final Scene. Choeur. Chantons les Plaisirs charmants |
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| Customer Reviews:
Psyche great August 27, 2008
I love Lully and after Thesee had to have this one. Beautiful. I love the Boston group and next time I'm in the US hope to see them. They never get to Australia so I have to go there. The recording is A1 as is the performance. The music of course is lovely and beautifully done in period performance. If you don't have it and you love Versailles operas this is one to get. The price is terrific too.
a feast for gods and mortals too August 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Psyche was not only the highlight of last year's Boston Early Music Festival but one of the highlights of Boston's year in music altogether. This was a very ambitious production with dozens of singers, dancers and musicians, with dozens more behind the scenes to produce an elaborate historically minded production. Although you mat be drawn to the star singers and music directors this recording demonstrates the highest level of musicianship from top to bottom. Karina Gauvin and Carolyn Sampson, the two star sopranos in question, certainly deliver in the lead roles but all the singers excel, and the chorus too.
The orchestra, led by the lutenist team of Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, along with Richard Mealy from the King's Noyse, is just fantastic. Lully's bright and festive music is given a detailed but never fussy or clinical treatment. The festival itself was called "A Feast of the Gods" and there is plenty for you mere mortals to feast on here.
Fans of Lully and the French Baroque in general will know what to expect and explorers will be well rewarded. Very highly recommended, along with the other BEMF recordings.Johann Georg Conradi: AriadneLully - Thesee
Another performance with Stubbs and O'Dette worth getting August 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After the many disappointing recordings of Baroque and Classical operas by American groups, I had reservations about buying this, or the earlier recording of Thesee. Anyway, I went to a local record shop (Silver Platters, if you happen to be from Seattle), to look for this recording of Psyche. They were sold out, and I ended up getting Thesee instead. This was a year after that recording was released, and, as it turns out, I shouldn't have waited that long to get it, for my fears were in vain. Anyway, I bought this one not long after, and it is just as well performed. The only problem it has is the fact that as far as plot, it ranks near the bottom of Lully's output, for the libretto is a hash of certain parts by Corneille, some from Lully's earlier ballet by the same name, some by Lully's usual librettist, Quinault. Perhaps the best parts are the prologue and the Italian lament in the first act. But, like Isis, that other less than dramatic Lully opera (and the reason why this one doesn't have a libretto by Quinault), it has excellent music throughout, as you would expect from Lully.
O'Dette & Stubbs strike gold once again. August 7, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just like they did with last year's Thesee, O'Dette, Stubbs and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus strike gold once more with Lully's PSYCHE. Though hardly as well known as some of Lully's later successes, it is, nevertheless, first rate Lully. And even though the cast is comprised largely of American and British (with a smattering of French-Canadian) singers, they, for the most part, imbue their singing with not only period sensibilities but also a Gallic refinement, with more than respectable French pronunciation. No doubt a native French speaker would disagree with me, but as someone who speaks the language, I found it an honorable effort on everyone's part. O'Dette and Stubbs direction is really fantastic, with an unerring attention to dynamics and phrasing. The music ebbs and flows with just the right amount of urgency and delicacy. The percussion and trumpets were appropriately regal and bold without overwhelming the woodwinds and strings. Carolyn Sampson is, not surprisingly, outstanding in the principal role of Psyche, but she is not, by any means, the only stellar singer here. My one complaint would have to be Jose Lemos's Silene. His countertenor voice is not the purest I've heard, with a distinct vibrato and somewhat "white" tone that I found to be a bit grating, though his tasteful musicality more than compensates for the lack of tonal vocal quality. This is really too minor a thing to even take into serious consideration. I mention it strictly in passing. If you love baroque opera, or more specifically French baroque opera, you will find little to gripe about here. I've already listened to it three times and could very easily listen to it just as many times again.
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