French Romantic Canatas / Deshayes
) | Label: Zig Zag Catalog: ZZT337 Format: CD Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano; Opera Fuoco, David SternLuigi Cherubini (1760-1842) Médée – Opéra en trois actes 1- Ouverture (version de Bruxelles) Xavier Boisselot (1811-1893) Velléda – Cantate 2- Chant du matin Louis-Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) Ariane – Cantate 3- Introduction Luigi Cherubini Médée – Opéra en trois actes 4- Air de Néris : « Ah ! nos peines seront communes… » (acte II, scène 4) Charles-Simon Catel (1773-1830) Sémiramis – Tragédie Lyrique en trois actes 5- Ouverture Luigi Cherubini Circé 6- Cantate This recording, produced by the Bru-Zane Foundation and released by ZZT, is an invitation to discovery: that of Romantic French cantatas by Cherubini, Hérold and Boisselot in the company of an exceptional guide, mezzo- soprano Karine Deshayes, and with the attentive complicity of Opera Fuoco and its conductor, David Stern Composed between 1789 and 1836, these scores bear witness to a genre, the French Cantata, very much present during the Baroque era and restored to favour in the 19th century as a sort of alternative to the Italian stage, generally perceived in France as being overly exuberant. So discoveries combined with the pleasure of again finding the splendid voice – particularly well adapted to this repertoire – of Karine Deshayes.  Price: $27.98 |