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François Fauché
François Fauché is a French soloist singer specializing in baroque repertoire for bass. Biography François Fauché worked a lot during the 1980s with the ensemble of baroque music Les Arts Florissants, spearhead of the baroqueux movement, conducted by William Christie. He was then one of the pillars of this ensemble, alongside Agnès Mellon, Jill Feldman, Monique Zanetti, Guillemette Laurens, Dominique Visse, Michel Laplénie, Étienne Lestringant, Philippe Cantor, Gregory Reinhart, Antoine Sicot etc. He is a member of the Ensemble Clément Janequin conducted by Dominique Visse, with whom he took part in numerous concerts in France and abroad, as well as in numerous recordings. He was also a member of the Ensemble Organum and the European ensemble William Byrd. Discography (selection) With Les Arts Florissants * 1983 : ' H.416 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1983: ' H.482 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1984: '' Médée'' by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1986: ''Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque Music
Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition, the galant style. The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: early, middle, and late. Overlapping in time, they are conventionally dated from 1580 to 1650, from 1630 to 1700, and from 1680 to 1750. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to. The term "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word ''barroco'', meaning " misshapen pearl". The works of George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach are considered the pinnacle of the Baroque period. Other key composers of the Baroque era include Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Reinhart
Gregory Reinhart (born June 18, 1951 in Pavilion, New York) is an American bass opera singer. He is noted for an extremely wide repertory which ranges from early music to the world premieres of several contemporary operas including Lowell Liebermann's ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', Philippe Manoury's ''K...'', and Pascal Dusapin's ''Perelà, uomo di fumo''. He has been praised in ''The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera'' for his performance in Monteverdi's ''L'Incoronazione di Poppea'' as one of the finest Senecas on record with "a magnificent bass voice: firm and clear throughout its wide range". Biography Gregory Reinhart was raised in upstate New York. In 1971, he entered Boston's New England Conservatory (NEC), where he studied voice with Mark Pearson and took master classes with Eleanor Steber. He graduated "with distinction" in 1974 and went on to receive his Master of Music Degree there in 1977. In 1976 he was a recipient of a fellowship award that also allowed h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Basses
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Data
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous '' comédie-ballets'', including ''L'Amour médecin'', ''George Dandin ou le Mari confondu'', '' Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'', '' Psyché'' and his best known work, '' Le Bourgeois gentilhomme''. Biography Lully was born on November 28, 1632, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to Lorenzo Lulli and Caterina Del Sera, a Tuscan family of millers. His general education and his musical training during his youth in Florence remain uncertain, but his adult handwriting suggests that he manipulated a quill pen with ease. He used to say that a Francisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Deum (Charpentier)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed six '' Te Deum'' settings, although only four of them have survived. Largely because of the great popularity of its prelude, the best known is the ''Te Deum'' in D major, H.146, written as a ''grand motet'' for soloists, choir, and instrumental accompaniment probably between 1688 and 1698, during Charpentier's stay at the Jesuit Church of Saint-Louis in Paris, where he held the position of musical director. ISMN M-0006-52543-0 It is thought that the composition was performed to mark the victory celebrations and the Battle of Steinkirk in August, 1692. Structure The composition consists of the following parts: *Prelude (''Marche en rondeau'') *Te Deum laudamus (bass solo) *Te aeternum Patrem (chorus and SSAT solo) *Pleni sunt caeli et terra (chorus) *Te per orbem terrarum (trio, ATB) *Tu devicto mortis aculeo (chorus, bass solo) *Te ergo quaesumus (soprano solo) *Aeterna fac cum sanctis tuis (chorus) *Dignare, Domine (duo, SB) *Fiat miseric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selva Morale E Spirituale
''Selva morale e spirituale'' ( SV 252–288) is the short title of a collection of sacred music by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, published in Venice in 1640 and 1641. The title translates to "Moral and Spiritual Forest". The full title is: "Selva / Morale e Spirituale / di Clavdio Monteverde / Maestro di Capella della Serenissima / Republica Di Venetia / Dedicata / alla Sacra Cesarea Maesta dell' Imperatrice / Eleonora / Gonzaga / Con Licenza de Superiori & Priuilegio. / In Venetia M DC X X X X / Appresso Bartolomeo Magni". History ''Selva morale e spirituale'' was Monteverdi's "most significant anthology of liturgical works since the Vespers in 1610". The collection of various works in different instrumentation was published in Venice in 1640 and 1641. While the 1610 publication summarizes Monteverdi's sacred works written for Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, ''Selva morale e spirituale'' presents works composed at San Marco, Venice, where Monteverdi had served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dido And Aeneas
''Dido and Aeneas'' (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688, and had been performed at Josias Priest's girls' school in London by the end of 1689.White, Bryan, 'Letter from Aleppo: dating the Chelsea School performance of Dido and Aeneas', 417 Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683.Pinnock, Andrew, 'Which Genial Day? More on the court origin of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, with a shortlist of dates for its possible performance before King Charles II’, Early Music 43 (2015), 199–212Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock, Unscared by turning times'? The dating of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas," The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's ''Aeneid''. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Médée (Charpentier)
''Médée'' is a '' tragédie mise en musique'' in five acts and a prologue by Marc-Antoine Charpentier to a French libretto by Thomas Corneille. It was premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on December 4, 1693. ''Médée'' is the only opera Charpentier wrote for the Académie Royale de Musique. The opera was well reviewed by contemporary critics and commentators, including Sébastien de Brossard and Évrard Titon du Tillet, as well as Louis XIV whose brother attended several performances, as did his son; however, the opera only ran until March 15, 1694, although it was later revived at Lille.Powell Roles Synopsis Prologue A celebration of the glory of King Louis XIV. Act 1 Jason and Médée (Medea), pursued by the people of Thessaly because of Médée's crimes, have sought refuge in Corinth. Médée is worried that Jason is growing distant from her. Jason claims he needs to win the good graces of the princess Créuse so her doting father, King Créon, will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble Organum
Ensemble Organum is a group performing early music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos and are influenced by Orthodox music.Ensemble Organum www.medieval.orgIvan Hewett (2011) ''Daily Telegraph''. The group mainly focuses on the performance of music from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble Clément Janequin
The Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the Renaissance and early Baroque. The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse. The group has recorded almost exclusively for the Harmonia Mundi label of the late Bernard Coutaz since its inception. An early line up of the Ensemble in 1985, for the ''Meslanges'' recording, included Josep Cabré (Baritone), Philippe Cantor (Baritone), Michel Laplénie (Tenor), Gérard Lesne (Haute Contre), Agnès Mellon (Soprano), Antoine Sicot (Bass) and direction Dominique Visse. Cabré, Laplénie, and Lesne all subsequently founded their own ensembles, as well as Bruno Boterf (tenor) who was a member of the Ensemble from 1987 to 2007 before founding his own vocal ensemble, Ludus Modalis. The ensemble has recorded very little modern music but in 2009 recorded a selection of 19th-century and modern compositions extending the tradition of the renaissance genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Sicot
Antoine Sicot is a contemporary French soloist singer specialising in the baroque repertoire for bass voice. Biography Born in Saint-Ouen-de-Sécherouvre in Orne, Sicot worked a lot during the 1980s with the Baroque music ensemble Les Arts Florissants, spearhead of the "baroqueux" movement directed by William Christie. He was then one of the pillars of this ensemble alongside Agnès Mellon, Jill Feldman, Monique Zanetti, Guillemette Laurens, Dominique Visse, Michel Laplénie, Étienne Lestringant, Philippe Cantor, Gregory Reinhart, François Fauché etc. He also collaborated with the Ensemble Clément Janequin, La Chapelle Royale, the Ensemble Organum etc. Selected discography With Les Arts Florissants * 1982: ''Antienne "O" de l'Avent'' by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1982: ' H.414 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1983: ' H.482 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1984: '' Médée'' by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1984: ''Airs de Cour'' by Michel Lambert * 1986: ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
