Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau Les Arts Florissants & William Christie

• Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667 - 1737): Jephté:
• 1Jephté: Prologue - Ouverture01:52
• 2Jephté: Prologue - "Riez sans cesse" - "Dans ces beaux lieux"03:21
• 3Jephté: Prologue - "De quels nouveaux concerts"01:44
• Antoine Dauvergne (1713 - 1797): Hercule mourant:
• 4Hercule mourant: "Quelle voix suspend mes alarmes ?"04:01
• Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764): Hippolyte et Aricie:
• 5Hippolyte et Aricie: "Quels doux concerts!"04:21
• Nicolas Racot de Grandval (1676 - 1753): Cantate Rien du tout:
• 6Rien du tout09:15
• Antoine Dauvergne: La Vénitienne:
• 7La Vénitienne: "Pour braver les périls"01:02
• 8La Vénitienne: "Ciel, il me laisse"03:06
• 9La Vénitienne: "Livrons-nous au sommeil"03:05
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787): L'Ivrogne corrigé:
• 10L'Ivrogne corrigé: "Maudit ivrogne"01:39
• 11L'Ivrogne corrigé: "Il est mort"02:17
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Canon:
• 12Canon: "Ah ! Loin de rire"01:21
• Christoph Willibald Gluck: L'Ivrogne corrigé:
• 13L'Ivrogne corrigé: "Rendez mon époux à la vie"02:09
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Canon:
• 14Canon: "Réveillez-vous dormeur"00:34
• Christoph Willibald Gluck: L'Ivrogne corrigé:
• 15L'Ivrogne corrigé: "Que de plaisirs l'Amour nous donne"01:31
• André Campra (1660 - 1744): L'Europe galante:
• 16L'Europe galante: "Quoi ! Pour l'objet de votre ardeur" - "L'Amour, en comblant nos désirs"04:05
• 17L'Europe galante: "Paisibles lieux"02:54
• 18L'Europe galante: "Que vois-je, quel spectacle !" - "Aimez, belle Bergère" - "Que je sache du moins"02:35
• 19L'Europe galante: "Voyez à vos genoux" - "Lorsque Doris me parut belle" - "Que n'adresse-vous mieux"04:21
• 20L'Europe galante: "Quel funeste coup"03:27
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Fêtes d'Hébé:
• 21Les Fêtes d'Hébé: "Revenez, tendre amant"01:51
• 22Les Fêtes d'Hébé: "Je vous revois" - "Sans cesse les oiseaux font retentir"02:32
• 23Les Fêtes d'Hébé: "Fuis, porte ailleurs tes fureurs"03:57
• Dardanus:
• 24Dardanus: "Hâtons-nous,courons à la gloire"02:18
• 25Dardanus: "Voici les tristes lieux" - "Monstre affreux"04:09
• 26Dardanus: "Mais un nouvel éclat"02:13
• 27Dardanus: "Des biens que Vénus nous dispense"02:21
• 28Les Indes galantes: "Tendre Amour"02:49
• Total Runtime01:20:50

Info for Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau

With Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau, William Christie invites us to take a pleasant walk in the beautiful garden of French vocal music from the XVIIIth Century. Featured composers include Rameau and his contemporaries, and the repertoire ranges from opera highlights and profane cantatas to instrumental interludes. Christie's program presents a vivid overview of the music that was played in Versailles at the peak of its splendor. The album's vocal soloists are young singers who took part in Le Jardin des Voix (The Garden of Voices) - a biannual musical academy led by William Christie and Paul Agnew that is designed to unveil the most promising talents of the coming generation.

“Avuncular compassion and infinite wit.” (The Guardian)

"One of the very best early music organizations of our times..." (Positive Feedback)

"The choir of Les Arts Florissants acquit themselves with full honours..." (Gramophone)

Daniela Skorka, soprano
Emilie Renard, mezzo-soprano
Benedetta Mazzucato,
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Victor Sicard, baritone
Cyril Costanzo, bass
Le Jardin des Voix
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, conductor

Les Arts Florissants
A renowned musical Ensemble, specialized in Baroque music since 1979. Founded in 1979 by William Christie, Les Arts Florissants is one of the best-known baroque-music ensembles in the world. Established in the name of creativity, pleasure and sharing, the Ensemble — which takes its name from a short opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier — has played a pioneering role in the revival of a repertoire that had been largely forgotten and which is now enjoyed across the globe in all the most prestigious concert houses. This pioneering spirit has never died, and Les Arts Florissants’ two artistic directors, William Christie and Paul Agnew, continue the Ensemble’s tradition of research and innovation today.

"Almost 40 years ago a group of friends and I founded Les Arts Florissants, the ensemble that has allowed me to rediscover the magnificent repertoire of the baroque age and perform it in all of the world’s most prestigious halls. At the same time, in the Vendée, I have accomplished another of my dreams: creating a unique and original garden around my 17th-century manor house, which is now the setting each year for the , where we welcome music lovers from all over the world.

“Encouraged by these years of success, I now feel it is time to put Les Arts Florissants on a firm footing for the future. For this reason, the creation of a foundation, recognized by the French government as being of “public utility,” was fundamental. And to make it possible, I have decided to gift all my properties, including my house and gardens, to the Foundation Les Arts Florissants – William Christie.

“This project is the realization of the dream of a lifetime. A dream of music and gardens, but also of the handing on of savoir-faire and passion to future generations of artists and audiences. It is here that all my desires converge and that everything begins. This is the start of a great adventure!” (William Christie)

William Christie
harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and teacher, is the inspiration behind one of the most exciting musical adventures of the last thirty years. A pioneer in the rediscovery of Baroque music, he has introduced the repertoire of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France to a very wide audience. Born in Buffalo, and educated at Harvard and Yale, William Christie has lived in France since 1971. The turning point in his career came in 1979, when he founded Les Arts Florissants.

As Director of this vocal and instrumental ensemble, William Christie soon made his mark as a musician and man of the theater, in both the concert hall and the opera house, with new interpretations of largely neglected or forgotten works. Major public recognition came in 1987 with the production of Lully’s Atys at the Opéra Comique in Paris, which then went on to tour internationally to huge success.

From Charpentier to Rameau, through Couperin, Mondonville, Campra, or Montéclair, William Christie is the uncontested master of tragédie-lyrique as well as opéra-ballet, and is just as comfortable with the French motet as with music of the court. But his affection for French music does not preclude him from exploring other European repertoires and, as well as his many acclaimed performances of Italian works (Monteverdi, Rossi, Scarlatti, Landi), he broaches Purcell and Handel with as much success as Mozart, Haydn or Bach.

William Christie’s particularly busy operatic career has been marked by numerous collaborations with renowned theater and opera directors (Jean-Marie Villégier, Robert Carsen, Alfredo Arias, Jorge Lavelli, Graham Vick, Adrian Noble, Andrei Serban, Luc Bondy, Deborah Warner), which are always major events in the musical calendar. His most recent include: Les Fêtes vénitiennes by Campra at the Paris Opéra Comique in 2015 and on tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Rameau, Maître à Danser in Caen in 2014 and on tour at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and in Korea; Theodora in 2016 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; in 2018, Handel's Jephtha and Ariodante, respectively at the Paris national Opera and at the Wiener Staatsoper, as well as L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Salzburg Festival. More recently, he conducts Platée by Rameau at the Theater an der Wien, Titon et l'Aurore by Mondonville at the Opéra Comique and Handel's Partenope on international tour.

As a guest conductor, William Christie often appears at opera festivals such as Glyndebourne (notably Hipermestra in 2017 and Giulio Cesare in 2018) or at opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Zurich Opernhaus, or the Opéra National de Lyon. Between 2002 and 2007, he regularly appeared as a guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic.

His extensive discography (more than 100 recordings, many of which have won awards and distinctions in France and abroad) with Harmonia Mundi, Warner Classics/Erato and Virgin Classics reflects the richness of his artistic ventures. Among the most recent issues, in the « Les Arts Florissants » collection under the harmonia mundi label: La Harpe reine, Un Jardin à l’italienne, Si vous vouliez un jour, the Mass in B Minor and L'incoronazione di Poppea, "N'espérez plus, mes yeux" and "Générations".

Over the last twenty-five years, William Christie has brought to the limelight several generations of singers and instrumentalists. Indeed, most of the conductors of today’s French Baroque ensembles began their careers with Les Arts Florissants. A professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1982 to 1995, he was in charge of the early music class, and is now often invited to give master classes or lead academies such as those at Aix-en-Provence and Ambronay. Since 2007 he has been artist in residence at the Juilliard School of New York, where he gives master classes twice a year accompanied by the musicians of Les Arts Florissants.

Wishing to develop further his work as a teacher, in 2002 William Christie created, with Les Arts Florissants, a biennial academy for young singers in Caen, Le Jardin des Voix, whose winners, after touring with Les Arts Florissants in France, Europe, and the U.S., embark on distinguished international careers. Among the talents discovered by William Christie through the Jardin des Voix are Sonya Yoncheva, Christophe Dumaux, Emmanuelle de Negri, Marc Mauillon, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Lea Desandre or Eva Zaïcik.

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