Carolyn Sampson, Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore – A French Baroque Diva (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Carolyn Sampson, Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore – A French Baroque Diva (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:54 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records

This album featuring Carolyn Sampson and Ex Cathedra showcases works written for the foremost soprano of the French Baroque, Marie Fel. Voltaire called her his “adorable nightingale”. Fel held an entire generation spellbound at the Paris Opera and at Louis XV’s court during one of the most glorious periods of French music. She inspired some of Rameau’s finest music and introduced a whole new level of virtuosity and expression into the French singing tradition. Her long, triumphant career is traced through this fascinating recording.

Both the music and especially the central figure on this release by British soprano Carolyn Sampson will be largely unfamiliar to most listeners, for the vocal music of the French Baroque has received many fewer contextual studies on recordings than its English and Italian counterparts. Marie Fel was the star singer of mid-18th century Paris, a Bordeaux native who was discovered by an agent of the Paris Opera when she was 20. Roughly as Senesino was to Handel, she was an inspiration to Rameau, and many other composers wrote for her as well. Sampson tries to penetrate Fel’s musicality, and the album is not just a compilation of works associated with her. She sings a sacred aria (Joseph Hector Fiocco’s Laudate pueri, track 12) with the ornamentation Fel herself wrote out, and she even ventures into the Occitan language, which Fel spoke natively, for the extremely unusual Gasouillats auzeléts by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (track 11). Speakers of Occitan are invited to judge her pronunciation (an English translation is included), but even those with no particular interest in the history of singing will be struck by the variety of Fel’s repertoire, which ranged from the older Lully style of French opera to the bright simplicity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Salve regina of 1752 (not a common item either). Sampson’s voice is not absolutely comfortable when forced to do acrobatics at the top of its range, but for the most part she lives up to d’Aquin’s description of Fel’s instrument as “always lovely, always seductive.” Her range is matched by that of the instrumental group Ex Cathedra under Jeffrey Skidmore, which is called upon to deliver a variety of theatrical effects. Highly recommended.

Tracklist:
1-1. Jeffrey Skidmore – Philomèle – Prologue Scene 1: Ah! quand reviendront nos beaux jours? (09:01)
1-2. Jeffrey Skidmore – Exsurgat Deus, S71 – Movement 5: Regna terrae (02:29)
1-3. Jeffrey Skidmore – Te Deum laudamus, S32 – Movement 01: Sinfonie (01:48)
1-4. Jeffrey Skidmore – Te Deum laudamus, S32 – Movement 08: Tu rex gloriae (01:57)
1-5. Jeffrey Skidmore – Te Deum laudamus, S32 – Movement 09: Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem (03:22)
1-6. Jeffrey Skidmore – Salve regina – Part 1: Salve regina, salve mater (04:31)
1-7. Jeffrey Skidmore – Salve regina – Part 2: Ad te clamamus, exsules, filii Evae (00:50)
1-8. Jeffrey Skidmore – Salve regina – Part 3: O clemens, o pia (04:17)
1-9. Jeffrey Skidmore – Castor et Pollux – Act 1 Scenes 2-3: Un tendre intérêt vous appelle – Tristes apprêts (07:02)
1-10. Jeffrey Skidmore – Platée – Act 3 Scene 4: Amour, lance tes traits (03:07)
1-11. Jeffrey Skidmore – Daphnis et Alcimadure – Act 1 Scene 2: Gasouillats auzeléts (03:48)
1-12. Jeffrey Skidmore – Laudate pueri – Part 1: Laudate pueri (01:31)
1-13. Jeffrey Skidmore – Laudate pueri – Part 3: A solis ortu (03:19)
1-14. Jeffrey Skidmore – Laudate pueri – Part 4: Alleluia (01:53)
1-15. Jeffrey Skidmore – Venite, exsultemus – Movement 4: Venite, adoremus (03:03)
1-16. Jeffrey Skidmore – La lyre enchantée – No 1: Accordez vos sons et vos pas (03:43)
1-17. Jeffrey Skidmore – La lyre enchantée – No 2: Gavotte: Lyre enchanteresse (01:52)
1-18. Jeffrey Skidmore – La lyre enchantée – No 3: Écoutons … D’un doux frémissement (01:53)
1-19. Jeffrey Skidmore – La lyre enchantée – No 4: Vole, Amour, prête-moi tes armes (03:35)
1-20. Jeffrey Skidmore – La lyre enchantée – No 5: Contredanse (01:44)
1-21. Jeffrey Skidmore – Cantate Domino, S72 – Movement 5: Viderunt omnes termini terrae (05:07)
1-22. Jeffrey Skidmore – Venite, exsultemus – Movement 6: Hodie si vocem (02:52)

Personnel:
Carolyn Sampson – soprano
Ex Cathedra – Conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore

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