Plaisirs D'amour

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Rene Aubry Did Want this Solo Album Totally Different Than the Previous Ones: Acoustic, Intimist, Warm, in One Word: 'full of Love'. 'plaisirs D'amour' is Essentially Based on Guitars.

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Average customer rating: A very exciting recording "Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque" 10 thumbs up! Gorgeous Swing for Le Roi-Soleil The Sun King's Most Beloved Composer Really Shines in this Performance! Recommended highly

Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Lully | Lully, Jean-Baptiste | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lully: Les Divertissements de Versailles François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux Lully - Ballet Music for the Sun King / Mary Enid Haines · Aradia Baroque Ensemble · Kevin Mallon Orchestra of Louis XIII Marin Marais: Pièces de Viole du Second Livre, 1701 ASIN: B000031WY0 Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

1. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Ov
2. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Gavotte
3. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Canaries
4. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Marche Pour La Ceremonie Turque
5. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Premier Air Des Espagnols: Sarabande
6. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Second Air Des Espagnols: Gigue
7. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': L'Entree Des Scaramouches, Trivelins Et Arlequins
8. Premiere Ste 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme': Chaconne Des Scaramouches, Trivelins Et Arlequins
9. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Danse De Neptune
10. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Les Suivants De Neptune
11. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Prld Des Trompettes Et Autres Instruments Pour Mars
12. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Les Hommes Et Femmes Armes
13. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Rondeau Du Mariage Force
14. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Second Air ('Le Mariage Force')
15. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Bourree Du Mariage Force
16. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Bourree Du Divertissement De Chambord
17. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Sym Des Plaisirs
18. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Les Esclaves
19. Deuxieme Ste 'Le Divertissement Royal': Menuet Pour Les Trompettes
20. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Marche Des Combattans
21. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Menuet
22. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Loure Pour Les Pecheurs
23. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Echos
24. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Rondeau De La Gloire
25. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': La Pompe Funebre
26. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Rondeau Pour La Fete Marine
27. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Les Vents
28. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': La Fete Infernale: 1er Air
29. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': 2eme Air, Les Demons
30. Troisime Ste 'Alceste': Marche Des Assiegeants
31. Chaconne De L'Amour Medecin

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A very exciting recording.......2006-09-23

This is a marvellous introduction to the French Baroque music, 17th century music and the music from the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully. I bought this CD because I love Lully and because I am a fan of Jordi Savall and his Concert des Nations.

So what is on this CD?

Well, for your money you get some excellent recordings of orchestral movements from the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully. These movements are in the various dance forms popular in the French court in the 17th century. The music is colourful, rhythmic and stylish. Lully was a great tunesmith and he had a great feel for dance.

Please, if you buy no other CD of Lully's music in your life, please consider this one.

"Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque" 10 thumbs up!.......2006-08-17

If you love Lully's music you will give it 10 stars. Great recording too!

Gorgeous Swing for Le Roi-Soleil.......2006-03-25

Although I used to study music and I knew his name, I hadn't listened Jean-Baptiste Lully's music. I listened to music of Ramaeu, Vivaldi, Purcell, J.S.Bach, and Handel but no Lully's.
First time I listened his music was from French film "Le Roi Danse" which was a story about Lully's life with Louis XIV and Moliere. Music impressed me so much that even I thought it was not by Lully, but it was.

So I bought this CD to listen in a complete way to "la musique pour le roi-soleil (the music for the sun king)". I would say, the music is like as gorgeous as Château de Versailles. The first suit "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman)" is called as the masterpiece of Lully and Moliere collaboration. I love fourth piece, Marche pour la C?r?monie turque (March for the Turkish ceremony)" which was also used in the film, and 13th melancholy piece is also my favorite.

My impression of Lully's music is swing, suppose French baroque style upright swing. Lully himself danced balley and he composed many pieces for ballet for Louis XIV dances. "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" is also a ballet, a comedy-ballet. Listening to his music, tapping feet, I wonder the ballet at that time focused on jump rather than turn, step, or movement.
Performance by Le Concert De Nations is also impressive and commentary by Philippe Beaussant is interesting as a view of music history.

One another I like about this CD is the package. It is paper three-fold and put the music score inside, very fashionable. The front picture if the King family is gorgeous too. Usually I drop packages to change to thin plastic cases but I will keep this package.

The Sun King's Most Beloved Composer Really Shines in this Performance!.......2005-10-13

As the main reviewer mentions, the French Baroque style is completely original in its sound so that even one with little familiarity in Baroque styles will recognize instantly. Jean-Baptiste Lully's music is probably the most regal, warm, and literally gay of all the Baroque music composed in France, but also one of the least performed. Lully is actually a very underrated composer and this album is probably the best example of how underrated he has remained which is unfortunate because his work is highly original and as complex as any other contemporary Baroque work. Jordi Savall and Le Concert Des Nations are undisputably a very few the very best performers of French Baroque pieces and each use 17th-18th century authentic instruments. The recording quality of this album is also stupendous. This album is a gem for anyone looking to expand their horizons in Baroque music or curious about French Baroque specifically.

Jean-Baptiste Lully was actually of Italian origins and his French style was influenced in some parts by his native Italy but mostly by French Late Renaissance and very early Baroque folkloric styles. Lully was active in the mid-17th century in the court of Louis XIV, The Bourbon Sun King and founder of Versailles who, in addition to having reigned for about 75 years, was the greatest patron of the arts and sciences in Europe during his time. This is of course music for the Sun King and so the pieces usually have a regal Baroque weightiness to them in trying to portray the absolute monarch as the mighty Jove who appeared as thunder but who moved on in his royal procession as regally and lightly as a cloud. Such techniques in the strings were mostly imitated and refined by contemporaries and used in later German Baroque concerto works such those of Bach, Telemann, and Handel. This regal weightiness is also carried by a lot of brass but Lully always presents his brass arrangements lightly unlike his heavier German and especially English Baroque counterparts. Accentuating its classicist themes, the music simultaneously conveys both the typical aristocratic fluff of the Bourbon court as well as its weighty Olympian pageantry demonstrated in his Turkish procession. In other parts, some of the ballad pieces make one feel as if they have just left the stuffy aristocratic halls of Versailles to join some jovial musketeers merrily drinking in a common nearby tavern instead. Lully's music is highly unique, expressive, and generally jovial with a lot of tonality: he uses a lot of period dances for his pieces such as sarabandes, gavottes, etc. There's also a lot more use of the viola da gamba, lute, and various percussion than other contemporary Baroque pieces but somewhat typical in French ones. The most moving pieces in these arrangements might just be those for solo Baroque violin and lute or a small accompaniment: they are very expressive and as hauntingly beautiful and divine as any of Biber's comparable works or those of Marais. Lully was simply a genius in very evocative music that seemed to defy its own excess demands for pomp and frivolity. He is certainly one of the most innovate composers of the Baroque period. Lully is actually the main founder of both modern ballet and opera as forms of art which he first performed in the court of Versailles as distinctive musical repertoires incorporating theatrical and dance forms. Louis XIV was indeed so enamoured with Lully's majestic works that he ignored Cardinal Mazarin's resentments and France's own capital laws against homosexuality so that he could keep him under the patronage of his court. Although tragic, Lully's death is somewhat ironically as fatalistic as many of the classicist subjects of his ballets and operas: as if he had been a gifted muse who rendered Apollo jealous and so was struck down by Fate. While passionately conducting a piece using a heavy set staff weighing several pounds, he accidentally crushed his foot and died of gangrene soon after. He was an artist who died from his passion in a true sense and this is always a touching end for an artist in terms of posterity. He was replaced by Marin Marais as court composer whose pieces are also exquisitely performed by Jordi Savall solo on the viola and with Le Concert Des Nations for his orchestral works.

Lully was definitely an accomplished master of music and very original. A composer who is more obscure simply for the fact that he's not played as much as Bach or Vivaldi and that the French Baroque is not as common in performance circles. Lully however was certainly no less accomplished in his genius than any other of the great Baroque masters. Although many French composers such as Marais and Rameau would imitate his expressive style throughout the 18th century particularly in their operas and ballets, none of them could ever match it. In terms of French Baroque, I strongly recommend you get every piece you can by Jordi Savall and Le Concert Des Nations as they are few of the very foremost experts on performing in the French style. Another decent group is Les Arts Florrisants who have done various French Baroque performances. There are few other groups and artists that perform Lully or any French Baroque besides the latter anyway and most of them that do don't even compare to them. Their CDs are typically more expensive than the common labels and might have to be ordered but the quality of the performances and the recordings are really worth every penny believe me. Many of Savall's earlier performances are also starting to become hard to find.

Recommended highly.......2002-04-16

I am not as familiar as some with the music of Lully, but enough to know where Handel must have taken some of his points when he himself became the master splendour and majesty in music!

The music is astounding to say the very least. Though I am still quite partial to the 'Handelian' brand of grandeur, Lully also seems to have stolen my heart with this most royal and dignified collection of pieces, a fascinating and important compilation. I commend warmly the performers and conductor for an astounding example of excellence in interpretation, and recommend highly this recording to all.

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Roi Danse Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lully | Lully, Jean-Baptiste | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Antiqua Musica | ( A ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cologne Musica Antiqua | ( C ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Sonaten aus Dresden Le Roi Danse (Original French Version with English Subtitles) Rameau - Les Indes Galantes / Petibon, Croft, Hartelius, Agnew, Rivenq, Berg, Strehl, Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Paris Opera ASIN: B000207LZU Release Date: 2004-08-10

Tracks:

1. Te Deum: Symphonie
2. Bocanne Primitive
3. Bocanne Compliqu
4. Phan: Troupe d'AstrDansante (Prologue)
5. Ballet de la Nuit: Ouverture
6. Ballet des Plaisirs: Sarabande
7. Ballet de la Nuit: Le Roi Reprntant le Soleil Levant
8. Xerx Air Pour Les Matelots Jouant des Trompettes Marines
9. Xerx Air Pour Les Esclaves et Singes Dansants
10. Xerx Air Pour Les Postures de Scaramouche
11. Xerx Air Pour Les Docteurs, Frivelins et Polichinelles
12. Xerx Air Pour Les Esclaves Dansants
13. Idylle Sur la Paix: Air Pour Madame la Dauphine
14. Ballet d'Alcidiane: Ritournelle et Air de Mademoiselle Hilaire
15. Ballet d'Alcidiane: Ouverture
16. Triomphe de l'Amour: Ouverture
17. Pers Entrdes DivinitInfernales (Acte III, Sc 10)
18. Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Marche Pour la Cmonie des Turcs
19. Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Giourdina
20. Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Chaconne des Scaramouches, Frivelins et ...
21. Ombre de Mon Amant (Air de Cour)

Tracks:

1. Triomphe de l'Amour: Prde de la Nuit
2. Pomone: Passons Nos Jours Dans Ces Vergers (Acte I, Sc 1)
3. Pomone: Que Voyez-Vous, Mes Yeux? (Acte II, Sc 1)
4. Armide: Plus J'Observe Ces Lieux (Acte II, Sc 3) [Instrumental]
5. Atys, Le Sommeil: Dormons, Dormons Tous (Acte III, Sc 4)
6. Armide: Passacaille (Acte V)
7. Armide: Prde (Acte II, Sc 5)
8. Folies d'Espagne
9. Amants Magnifiques: Entrd'Apollon
10. Triomphe de l'Amour: Entrd'Apollon
11. Triomphe de l'Amour: Deuxi Air (Acte IV, Sc 2)
12. Isis: C'est Lui Dont Les Dieux Ont Fait Choix - Publions en Tous Lieux
13. Armide: Que l'lat de Son Nom (Prologue)
14. Amadis: Esprits EmpressNous Plaire - Que le Ciel Annonce la ...

Average customer rating: Man, That woman really can sing ! Delicious singing, gorgeous music... this is a must-have. I would give this CD seven stars if I could! Perfect! Affect and early music performance

Patricia Petibon ~ French baroque arias (Rameau, Lully, Charpentier, Grandval) / Les Folies Françoises, Cohen-Akenin Jean-Philippe Rameau , Marc-Antoine Charpentier , Jean-Baptiste Lully , Nicolas Racot de Grandval , Patrick Cohen-Akenine , Patricia Petibon , and Les Folies Françoises Manufacturer: Virgin Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Charpentier | Charpentier, Marc-Antoine | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lully | Lully, Jean-Baptiste | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rameau | Rameau, Jean Philippe | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Arias | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Handel - Arcadian Duets / Dessay, Gens, Petibon, Claycomb, Lascarro, Panzarella, Mijanovic, Mingardo, Asawa, Agnew, Le Concert d'Astrée, Haïm Sandrine Piau - Handel Opera Seria Vivaldi Edition: Arie d'Opera Tragédiennes Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel · Scarlatti · Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski ASIN: B00005IA1U Release Date: 2002-02-12

Tracks:

1. Platee: Air De Clarine: Soleil, Fuis De Ces Lieux
2. Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Ariette De L'Amour: Volez, Plaisirs, Celebrez Ce Beau Jour
3. Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Entree Des Egyptiens
4. Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Ariette De L'Egyptienne: L'Amant Que J'Adore
5. Les Fetes De L'Hymen Et De L'Amour: Ariette De L'Egyptienne: Amour, Lance Tes Traits
6. Platee: Air De Folie: Formones Les Plus Brillants Conc...Aux Langueurs D'Apollon
7. David Et Jonathas: A-t-on Jamais Souffert Une Plus Rude Peine?
8. Armide: Prld/Armide: Enfin, Il Est En Ma Puissance
9. Armide: Le Perfide Renaud Me Fuit
10. Les Indes Galantes: Air De Phani: Viens, Hymen
11. Les Indes Galantes: Air De Zima: Regnez, Plaisirs Et Jeux
12. Les Indes Galantes: Chaconne
13. Rien Du Tout

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This program of scenes and arias by Rameau, Charpentier, Lully, and Grandval is well designed to display Patricia Petibon's consummate vocal technique and historically informed artistry. Her florid coloratura, going up to high D- and E-flat (in the low period-instrument tuning) is clearly articulated and perfectly in tune. She can change color, nuance, and expression on a single note, and her mastery of the style is complete. She captures the seriousness as well as the humor in Rameau's two cantatas, the sorrow of Jonathan's lamentation in Charpentier's "David and Jonathan," the vacillation between reluctant attraction and furious vengeance in Lully's dramatic scene "Armide," and the rollicking fun in the final tour-de-force, Grandval's "Rien du tout"--a wicked parody of all singers and singing styles.

The voice itself takes some getting used to. In keeping with period practice, it is mostly lacking vibrato and so cool and bright as to seem shrill and strident. In the Lully, however, it becomes warmer, darker, and truly expressive. A large group of strings, winds, and percussion supports her splendidly, sometimes with only one or two instruments, sometimes with full orchestral effects that set the stage and underline mood and atmosphere. The musicians come into their own in the numerous instrumental sections, which are played with great verve, rhythmic incisiveness, character, and a wonderful sound. --Edith Eisler

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Man, That woman really can sing !.......2006-11-09

In addition to Veronique Gens that is..........

Delicious singing, gorgeous music... this is a must-have........2004-04-30

Fine champagne fizzing from a French goblet... exquisite use of flirtation's fan behind cocquettish eyes... bitter-sweet laments and sighs over love and life... all with unmistakable French style and elegance. This is how Patricia Petibon has conveyed her performances of these fine baroque French arias.

As a fellow soprano specialising both in early music and other later classical vocal styles, I am extremely fastidious in my likes and dislikes when it comes to singers. When, therefore, I find a singer whose voice, intelligence and musicality produce ravishing quality like this, I am in alt...

In contrast to some of the comments here, I do not find Ms Petibon's voice shrill or white (except when she uses it so deliberately in order to create a particular emotional or stylistic effect). On the contrary, it is of a crystalline purity which she is able to tinge with warmer colours when necessary. I was hugely impressed by this recording, a worthy follow-up to the unbelievably beautiful recording of the Couperin Leçons de tènèbres which was sung by Petibon and Sophie Daneman.

What a sense of fun Patricia Petibon has! It's marvellous to hear baroque music performed with such stylish humour and grace, instead of the tediously uninterpreted choir-boy style which is considered by some to be the "correct" way of singing this type of aria. I listened with particular closeness to the arias from "Armide", which I had just performed myself - and was enchanted by Petibon's singing of them. Even though her voice is light in colour, she is perfectly adept at conveying vengeful hatred, despairing love, and a right royal snarling bad humour!

The accompanying instruments are taut, graceful, and beautifully recorded. The result is a treat to hear.

This CD is most highly recommended by me - and believe me, sopranos are tough critics of each other...!

I would give this CD seven stars if I could!.......2004-04-24

The beautiful and talented Patricia Petibon is simply stunning in this recording! If you've never listened to much Baroque opera this would be a great place to start! The music ranges from deeply emotional to whimsical. Petibon sings everything with style, panache, pizzazz and a deep commitment to the music and the composers.
The Baroque orchestra that accompanies her is new to me and they play with great verve.

What is so wonderful about this disc is that it is a genuine first - it is, as far as I know, the only disc in existence devoted the arias of Rameau, Lully, Charpentier and Grandval from a single singer. Bored with predictable collections of Opera Seria arias? Fed up with all the collections of the same Handel arias made by various sopranos, mezzos, countertenors, et cetera? Wondering what, exactly, the French were doing while the rest of Europe was worshipping castrati?

Well, look no further! You have it all here on this one marvelous CD! Here new 'French Touch' CD (on DECCA) shouldn't be missed either!

Long live Patricia Petibon!

Perfect!.......2003-11-19

This was one of the first opera aria recital CD's that I've ever purchased, and it got me hooked on Baroque opera, French or otherwise. I picked up this record originally because I found the singer very attractive; not the deepest reason, but the MUSIC turned out to be immnesely enjoyable, even if they would've put artwork or a photo of an opera-house on the cover.

To begin with, Petibon's voice is beautiful. As the other reviewer(s) put it, it is a cool, vibrato-less voice that might SEEM shrill, but her voice is never unpleasant. In fast or slow pieces, she is always a pleasure to listen to. Besides the sheer beauty of timbre of her voice, her musicanship is incredible: her interpretations are always appropriate, coloring the piece with humor, excitment, sex appeal (especially the Armida piece), anger, you-name-it. Technically she is very impressive, and handles the disc's runs, cascades, top-notes, etc. very well. (This disc is by no means a firweworks display though).

The orchestra plays with the same degree of musicianship, technicality and beauty. In some of the Rameaus pieces (especially the march), the instrumental textures really show off the great harmonies and voicings that Rameau is famous for; this disc is a great introduction to the composer's music, I wish she recorded Rameau more often.

Finally, the music itself is unique, interesting and entertaining all at the same time. The 2 two excerpts from Lully are not conventional arias, but they display how well the composer was able to blend drama into music. His music is both at the same time, and it soudns cliched but you have to hear it to treally understand it. The piece from Charpentier from "David and Jonathan" is stirring, and shows off what a talented singer and skilled orchestra can do with good music: it is musical, stirring, anguished and not something you will (probably) ever hear at the Met.
A wordy review, but this is one of my favorite records, one that I think everyone who has an intrest in the Baroque period should listen to. If you''re looking for an introduction to this very unique corner of classical music, try this CD.

Affect and early music performance.......2003-04-24

Patricia Petibon's performance on this recording seems wholly appropriate for the Baroque era repertoire she is singing. Early music performance in general stresses that the musician clearly present the affect of the piece. This, Petibon does. She is not afraid to sound thin, shrill or even ever so slightly out of tune. These artistic allowances, I'm sure are all intended and allow for word painting. She has a versatile style, sounding warm and serene, cold and sharp, and even overly-dramatic and funny.
In the small company of early music performers who strive to be authentic as possible, she is welcome.

Average customer rating: Music to transport you to Versailles (and make you get up and dance !)

Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil Jean-Baptiste Lully , Jordi Savall , and Le Concert des Nations Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Vivaldi: La Viola da Gamba in Concerto Orchestra of Louis XIII Boccherini: Fandango, Sinfonie & La Musica Notturna di Madrid Elizabethan Consort Music ASIN: B000071XA6 Release Date: 2003-04-08

Customer Reviews:

Music to transport you to Versailles (and make you get up and dance !).......2007-07-19

This is a stunning disc: if you don't know the music of the French Baroque it will convert you - if you know the music already the performance and interpretation will dazzle you. Lully wrote with what I hear as an incredibly modern sense of melody - his tunes (and most of the pieces are short) are instantly accessible to a modern ear and are impossible to shake off, but these are more than simply pop songs; they are layered and varied, from exuberance to melancholy, to resignation and tears, to delight. And why buy this one rather than another interpretation ? Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations combine technical virtuosity with a beautiful musicality that allows you to hear the layers in the music, and they play with a sense of joy, and at times wildness, that make me wish I could dance. It is easy to see France under Louis XIV purely as grotesque, as the parody we see so often in film or literature; the affectation, the wigs, the thick cracking make up, the gilt clothing and the rancid sweat, the inept aristocracy and the starving peasantry. Lully and Savall remind us that these were people, with fears and hopes and exuberance and joy, and the skill and passion in the writing and performance of this music transport me instantly to Versailles under the Sun King, and make it a place I love being.Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil

Average customer rating: A great musician plaisirs d'amour Simply the Best A CD with charisma Rene Aubry

Plaisirs d'Amour René Aubry Manufacturer: Wagram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Apres la Pluie Signes Memories du Futur Seuls Au Monde Invites Sur La Terre ASIN: B0000253I9 Release Date: 1999-09-10

Tracks:

1. Salento
2. Trou de Memoire
3. Zig Zag
4. Fil de Verre
5. Vent - Renubry, Georges Brassens
6. Sirtaki a Helsinki
7. Demi Lune
8. Scirocco
9. Prima Donna
10. Lungomare
11. Petite Cascade
12. Grande Cascade
13. Flow

Album Details

Rene Aubry Did Want this Solo Album Totally Different Than the Previous Ones: Acoustic, Intimist, Warm, in One Word: 'full of Love'. 'plaisirs D'amour' is Essentially Based on Guitars.

Customer Reviews:

A great musician.......2002-09-27

Rene Aubry is worth being discovered. His guitar is excellent. An exciting experience for any kind of listener.

plaisirs d'amour.......2001-05-15

such a wonderful music! you'll be jumped in a real introspective world, i recommend it for real dreamers!!

Simply the Best.......2001-05-13

Simply the BEST new age electronic musician that very few people know about. I have all of his CD's. This is the best

A CD with charisma.......2000-12-16

Nowadays it is so hard to find a CD that you can listen to from beginning to end. Plaisirs d' amour has a certain charisma and is full of wonderful melodies that remind me of Manos Hadzidakis. I have the full discography of Aubry but this one a certain "must" for a beginner in his music.

Rene Aubry.......1999-12-31

Incredible classical guitar compositions with a hint of Spanish flair. Great melodies

Average customer rating: A beautiful rare gem from the soundtracks universe A perfect way to introduce yourself to the Clemencic Consort

Molière (1978 Film) Jean-Baptiste Lully , Henry Purcell , René Clemencic , and Alfred Deller Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lully | Lully, Jean-Baptiste | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Soundtracks | Imports | Stores | Music CDs Under $7 | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00004TVG8 Release Date: 2000-09-25

Tracks:

1. Nicomede
2. Rencontre Des Italiens
3. L'Ecole Des Femmes
4. L'Homme Oiseau
5. La Chanson De La Mere
6. La Foire De Saint-Laurent/Premiere Partie/Deuxieme Partie
7. Theme De L'Amour
8. La Foire De Toulouse
9. La Voyage
10. Armande
11. La Princesse Elide
12. Carnaval Et Revolte
13. Armande
14. La Mort De Madeleine
15. Le Combat Des Enfants
16. La Chambre Aux Miroirs
17. La Mort De Moliere: Henry Purcell, Extrait De King Arthur

Customer Reviews:

A beautiful rare gem from the soundtracks universe.......2006-03-18

I bought this CD with certain hesitation because it is a soundtrack. However, when hearing it the subtle sounds, the masterful interpretations, the beautiful voices of Marjorie Vance and Elisabeth Guy-Kummer and the master direction of Rene Clemencic, moved my soul tremendously. La Princesse Elide, Carnaval et Revolte, Armande and La Mort de Moliere will be, for sure, amongst the favourites of most listeners of this not to be missed album, a rare find in Amazon.com although normal in Amazon.fr. And hear carefully to the compelling percussions in La Foire de Toulouse. Buy and enjoy.

A perfect way to introduce yourself to the Clemencic Consort.......2003-11-12

The early-music group led by Rene Clemencic puts on a tremendous performance in this soundtrack disc of the 1978 film MOLIERE. This compilation allows you to sample the consort's instrumentals (uniquely historical) their lively interpretations, excellent vocals by the Deller consort, plus original Clemencic compositions. A great way to introduce yourself to this reknowned group of international artists.

Average customer rating: Great Opera

Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rameau | Rameau, Jean Philippe | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rameau - Zoroastre / Padmore · Berg · Mechaly · Panzarella · Lecroart · Bazola · Bonnet · Revidat · Les Arts Florissants · Christie Rameau - Les Fetes d'Hebe / Daneman, Connolly, Fouchecourt, Agnew, Felix, Les Arts Florissants, Christie Rameau - Orchestral Suites ~ Naïs · Zoroastre / Orchestra of the 18th Century · Brüggen Rameau - Orchestral Suites from Naïs & Le Temple de la Gloire / PBO · McGegan Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire ASIN: B000005E5O Release Date: 2002-08-12

Tracks:

1. Ouverture
2. Ritournelle
3. Entree Des Crotoniates
4. Rigaudon
5. Entree Des Suivants
6. Mouvement De Chaconne (Ii)
7. Annonce De Diane
8. Rondeau (I)
9. Entree Des Sirenes (Ii)
10. Sommeil D'anacreon (Iii)
11. Gavotte Tendre Pour Les Graces

Customer Reviews:

Great Opera.......2007-01-24

This one is 5 star and Rameau's "La Princess de Navarre" is 6 star!

Average customer rating:

Les Plaisirs d'Amour Manufacturer: Helicon Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000006C5X Release Date: 1998-09-01

Tracks:

1. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Frere Jehan'
2. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Amour m'a mis'
3. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Fault-il pour ung verre casse'
4. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Comment mon coeur'
5. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'De noz deux cueurs'
6. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'En languissant'
7. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Si les oyseaulx'
8. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Mariez-moy mon pere'
9. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Souspir d'amours'
10. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Amour et moy'
11. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Comment mon coeur'
12. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Ha, quel torment'
13. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Trac, trac! Qu'est la?'
14. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Dictes ouy'
15. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Oeil importum'
16. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Doeul, double doeul'
17. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Rien n'est plus cher'
18. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Vive sera'
19. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Piene et travail'
20. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Or my rendez mon karolus'
21. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Soyez seur'
22. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Cueur sans mercy'
23. Les Plaisirs d'Amour - Sixteenth Century Chansons From The French Provinces: 'Gaultier rancontra janeton'

Average customer rating: Not really drinking songs, but nice anyway

Les Plaisirs du Palais: Drinking Songs of the Renaissance Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gombert, Nicolas | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005BCY2 Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

1. Priere devant le repas, O souverain Pasteur
2. En Tour la feste Saint Martin
3. En languissant avoir secours j'attens
4. C'est tout abus
5. Triquedon daine
6. Hau. hau je boys
7. Je pers espoir
8. Aupres de vous a 2 voix
9. Secouez moy
10. Si vous n'avez madame
11. La chasse au lievre
12. Bransle de Champaigne/Alemande du pied de cheval/Bransle de Poictou
13. Que n'est elle aupres de moy
14. Aupres de vous a 4 voix
15. Ung souvenir me conforte
16. Laissons amour
17. Mirelaridon
18. Musae Jovis
19. Pour quelque paine que j'endure
20. Ung vray musicien
21. Priere apres le repas, Pere esternel

Customer Reviews:

Not really drinking songs, but nice anyway.......2003-04-22

I find it difficult to rate anything without putting it in context. I expected ribald drinking songs similar to "Gaudeamus Sigiture"(sp?) (Latin for "drink to friendship".) For those who never heard of it, think of a bunch of mideval college students who are a wee bit over-trained in Latin and a wee bit intoxicated - hanging out in an alehouse. Well, that's what I was expecting, but not what I got.

These songs are more about eating than drinking. There IS a drinking song or two. There are also two prayers. (aka Grace).

Nicely done. Just, different from what I expected!

Good for someone trying to improve their French. I think. (I'm not sure if the singers are using current French or Olde French, and would appreciate hearing from someone who can tell me!

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