Le Concert Spirituel - Proserpine - Lyric Tragedy [CD]

Jean-Baptiste Lully's Proserpine was composed in 1680 in collaboration with his trusted librettist Philippe Quinault.

The first recording on GLOSSA was made in 2006/2007 following stage performances in Paris and Versailles with a first-class group of soloists who were very familiar with the special demands of French Baroque vocal technique.

Herve Niquet and his ensemble Le Concert Spirituel gave us a magnificent musical firework display of French baroque opera on the first release, which still ignites today.

"Herve Niquet directs a superb ensemble performance in excellent recorded sound" - BBC Music Magazine

"Niquet... is capable of generating an almost visceral excitement and urgency, not just in Lully's glorious and imaginative choral writing but in the sensual urgency of his orchestral textures." Gramophone Magazine

Ouverture (Prologue)

Les beaux jours et la paix

Heros, dont la valeur etonne l'univers

Premier air - Que notre vie - Belles fleurs

Air

Deuxieme air - Quand un coeur est trop sensible

Soupirez, triste Paix, malheureuse captive

Premier air (Reprise) - Nous reverrons bien-tot Ceres dans ces beaux lieux

Bruit de trompettes - Ce bruit que la Victoire

Ritournelle

Air pour les trompettes - Venez, aimable Paix, la Vainqueur vous appelle

Infernales Divinitez secondez mon amour

Orgueilleuse Victoire

Proserpine, repondez-nous

O! Cruel esclavage

N'aurois-je point innocemment

Prelude - La Vainqueur est comble de gloire

Ceres revient, ah! quelle peine

Gavotte

Prelude - Je vais revoir ma fille - Ritournelle - J'ay rendu les Humains heurueux

Menuet - Il est temps que l'amour nous enchaine

Ma fille n'est pas avec vous

Prelude - On a quitte les armes

Je ressens vos ennuis et j'en suis trop

Ouverture

Prelude - O malheureuse Mere - Ritournelle - Ah! qu'elle injustice cruelle

Goutons dans ces aimables lieux (1. Akt)

Ritournelle - Apres un si sensible outrage

Ritournelle - Mercure, quel dessein

Air - Que tout se ressente de la fureur

La Phrygie a besoin de mes dons precieux

Prelude - Loin d'icy, loin de nous

Ritournelle - Vaine Fierte

Ritournelle - Ma chere liberte

Arretez, Nymphe trop severe

Est-ce une illusion dont le charme m'abuse

Prelude - Ceres va nous oter

Prelude - Venez-vous contre moy deffendre

Ritournelle - Vous qui voulez

Que l'on suspende icy

Celebrons la victoire

Air - Dans les Enfers

Air

Prelude - Vous qui reconnoissez

Ce Palais va tomber; o dieux!

Prelude - Desert ecartez, sombres lieux

Ritournelle - Jupiter a dompte

Prelude - Quels abimes se sont ouverts

Venez gouter icy le doux air qu'on respire

Ne m'apprendrez-vous point ou ma Fille

Ritournelle - Amants qui n'etes point

Tous les Dieux

Ritournelle - Ingrate, ecoutez-moy

Prelude - Ceres, que de vos pleurs le triste

Est-il vray que mon coeur

Demeurez Arethuse; Alphee, eloignez-vous

Ritournelle - J'ay peine a concevoir

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 8424562216358
• Release Date: May 16, 2025

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