Lully. Amadis. Auvity / Les Talens Lyriques / Rous
) | Label: Aparté Catalog: AP 094 Format: CD Hasnaa Bennani (soprano), Ingrid Perruche (soprano), Bénédicte Tauran (soprano), Virginie Thomas (soprano), Judith Van Wanroij (soprano), Caroline Weynants (soprano), Cyril Auvity (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Benoît Arnould (baritone), Pierrick Boisseau (baritone), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (baritone), Choeur de chambre de Namur, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe RoussetComposed by: Lully: Amadis Following on acclaimed releases of Bellérophon and Phaéton, Christophe Rousset continues his revival of Lully's tragédies lyriques for the Aparté label with Amadis. One of the composer's finest scores, Amadis is a masterpiece of French Baroque music. It was Louis XIV himself who asked Lully and his librettist Quinault to base an opera on Montalvo's Amadis de Gaula. Avoiding the usual mythological subjects gave the composer and librettist an opportunity to expand the scope of the tragédie lyrique genre.  Price: $67.98 |