Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin – Rivales (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin – Rivales (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:10 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens have a longstanding rapport and dreamed of making a recording together. Here they pay tribute to two singers who, like them, were born within a year of each other, Mme Dugazon (1755-1821) and Mme Saint-Huberty (1756-1812): both enjoyed triumphant careers in Paris, inspiring numerous librettists and composers. Gluck even nicknamed Saint-Huberty “Madame-la-Ressource”, while “a Dugazon” became a generic name for the roles of naïve girls in love, and later of comical mothers.

Rivals? They very likely were, given the quarrelsome spirit of the operatic world of the time, even if they never crossed paths on stage. Intermingling airs and duets, Piau and Gens here play the heroines of Gluck, Grétry, Monsigny, J. C. Bach, Piccinni, Edelmann and Cherubini. Developed in collaboration with the Centre de Musique baroque de Versailles, this programme on the cusp between Classicism and pre-Romanticism is very much the heart of the repertory championed by Julien Chauvin’s Le Concert de la Loge.

Tracklist:

01. Sandrine Piau – La Belle Arsène: Aria. “Où suis-je ?…” (03:29)
02. Véronique Gens – Ariane dans l’isle de Naxos: Scene. “Mais Thésée est absent…” (07:25)
03. Véronique Gens – La Clemenza di Scipione, Op. 14: Duo “Me infelice che intendo…” (07:45)
04. Sandrine Piau – La Clemenza di Tito, Wq. 16: Aria. “Se mai senti…” (10:21)
05. Véronique Gens – Alceste, Wq. 44: Aria. “Divinités du Styx…” (04:03)
06. Sandrine Piau – Fanny Morna, ou l’Écossaise: Aria. “Ô divinité tutélaire…” (08:07)
07. Véronique Gens – L’Embarras des richesses: Aria. “Dès notre enfance unis tous deux…” (03:11)
08. Véronique Gens – Démophoon: Scène. “Un moment à l’autel…” (07:43)
09. Véronique Gens – Renaud: Aria. “Barbare Amour, tyran des cœurs…” (03:48)
10. Sandrine Piau – Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les mœurs du bon vieux tems: Aria. “Cher objet de ma pensée…” (02:38)
11. Véronique Gens – Camille, ou Le souterrain: Duo. “Ciel protecteur des malheureux…” (04:37)

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