Charpentier: La descente d'Orphée aux enfers, H. 488 Cyril Auvity, Ensemble Desmarest & Ronan Khalil 

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Album-Release:
2018

HRA-Release:
18.05.2018

Label: Glossa

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Cyril Auvity, Ensemble Desmarest & Ronan Khalil 

Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

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  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 1704): La descente d'Orphée aux enfers, H. 488:
  • 1Overture03:02
  • Act I:
  • 2Inventons mille jeux divers02:17
  • 3Ruisseau qui dans ce beau séjour02:43
  • 4Compagnes fidèles02:28
  • 5Qu'il se croira fortuné01:10
  • 6Soutiens moi, chère Œnone - Qu'ai-je entendu, que vois-je?01:23
  • 7Ah! Bergers, c'en est fait03:22
  • 8Entrée de nymphes et de bergers désespérés01:32
  • 9Lâche amant00:42
  • 10Ne tourne point, mon fils02:19
  • 11Que d'un frivole espoir - Juste sujet de pleurs03:25
  • Act II:
  • 12Prélude - Affreux tourments01:44
  • 13Prélude - Cessez, fameux coupables02:23
  • 14Quelle touchante voix02:03
  • 15Je ne refuse point le secours - Il n'est rien aux enfers02:42
  • 16Entrée de fantômes00:57
  • 17Prélude - Que cherche en mon palais00:59
  • 18Je ne viens point ici - Pauvre amant04:26
  • 19Euridice n'est plus02:53
  • 20Le destin est contraire - Ah! Puisqu'avant le temps01:33
  • 21Tu ne la perdras point, hélas!02:32
  • 22Quel charme impérieux - Courage Orphée01:32
  • 23Souviens-toi du larcin03:55
  • 24Je cède, je me rends - Amour, brûlant amour02:19
  • 25Vous partez donc, Orphée06:13
  • Total Runtime01:00:34

Info for Charpentier: La descente d'Orphée aux enfers, H. 488



Cyril Auvity heads the cast in a new recording of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers in a production being released by Glossa. Auvity is the lovelorn Orpheus who ventures, with his lyre, into the Underworld to plead with Pluto (Etienne Bazola) for the return of his Eurydice (Céline Scheen), struck down in her prime by a snakebite, being encouraged in his efforts by Proserpine, the wife of the ruler of Hades (Floriane Hasler).

This is a two-act chamber opera, written in 1686, and it is not known whether Charpentier ever composed any more music for the piece (the drama stops at a tantalizing moment in the well-known story). Even still, the composer appears to have invested substantial inspiration into the work, which will have been performed in front of the composer’s patron, Mademoiselle de Guise by a group of singers working within the limitations imposed by Jean- Baptiste Lully’s “musical monopoly” of the time.

For this recording, keyboard-player Ronan Khalil directs his Ensemble Desmarest. The demanding lead role of this entertainment continues Auvity’s strong current presence in French Baroque music-making – as well as his connection with Glossa. His Orpheus follows his previous Charpentier Stances du Cid release on the label, as well as appearances in operas by Campra, Destouches and Lully. Marc Trautmann both informs and entertains in his accompanying booklet essay.

Cyril Auvity, Orphée
Céline Scheen, Eurydice
Etienne Bazola, Pluton
Floriane Hasler, Proserpine
Maïlys de Villoutreys, Daphné
Virgile Ancely, Apollon & Titye
Jeanne Crousaud, Œnone
Dagmar Saskova, Aréthuze
Kevin Skelton, Ixion
Guillaume Gutierrez, Tantale
François-Nicolas Geslot, tenor (high)
David Witczak, bass
Ensemble Desmarest
Ronan Khalil, direction

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