Alcina / Christie
 From Amazon.co.uk: Here it is: one of the year's most hotly anticipated opera recordings, made during an acclaimed live production in June 1999 at the Paris Opera, which more than lives up to the promise. Whether Handelian opera is still a novelty or you' [... more]
CDN$55.99
Amazon CA |
Les Fetes D'hebe, Christie
Chronique amazon.fr: William Christie a beaucoup oeuvré pour la diffusion auprès d'un large public du patrimoine musical français. Avec Jean-Philippe Rameau, il trouve un terrain d'expression qui lui convient parfaitement. Toujours [... more]
CDN$37.99
Amazon CA |
Noels Pour Instruments/..
Chronique amazon.fr: C'est en 1979 que William Christie fonda son ensemble des Arts florissants, du nom d'une œuvre de Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Cela suffit à prouver l'amour du chef américain, naturalisé français, pour ce [... more]
CDN$17.99
Amazon CA |
Theodora/ Les Arts Florissants
From Amazon.com: Theodora was Handel's next-to-last oratorio, and though it was a failure at its premiere, Handel preferred it above all his others. It tells of the martyrdom of the Christian Theodora (soprano) and her beloved Didymus (countertenor) at [... more]
CDN$36.99
Amazon CA |
Requiem (Christie)
a wonderfully clear and fluid requiem: William Christie and Les Arts Florissants have put together a powerful recording of Mozart's Requiem. All the debates surrounding its composition and history notwithstanding, this is beautiful music. The opening in [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Lully: Atys
Un Essentiel amazon.fr: Jean-Baptiste Lully fut l'un des compositeurs phares de la cour du Roi-Soleil. Parmi sa production foisonnante de tragédies, Atys était la partition préférée de Louis XIV. Pourtant, composé [... more]
CDN$47.90
Amazon CA |
Lecons De Tenebres
From Amazon.com: It figures that the ensemble most responsible for the French Baroque revival is the one to outdo Nelson and Kirkby's legendary recording of these lamentation settings. Sophie Daneman and Patricia Petibon don't have the earlier pair's [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Acteon
Chronique amazon.fr: Actéon est un petit joyau de musique composé certainement à l'intention de la princesse de Guise. Il appartient au meilleur de l'écriture de celui que l'on considère aujourd'hui comme le musicien [... more]
CDN$7.99
Amazon CA |
Medee, Christie
Amazon.com essential recording: Charpentier's Médée gets this writer's vote for the greatest opera of the entire French Baroque era. In their retelling of the Medea legend, Charpentier and his librettist Corneille combine all the grace, [... more]
CDN$55.99
Amazon CA |
Dido & Aeneas-Christie
Amazon.com essential recording: Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is one of the very few 17th-century works to have entered the operatic "canon" and developed a modern performance tradition before the late 20th century's early-music revival. For [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
King Arthur (Christie)
Amazon.com essential recording: The Fairy Queen may be the most famous of Purcell's "semi-operas" (spoken dramas with extended musical items incorporated--not to say dropped in), but King Arthur, with text by John Dryden, is undoubtedly the [... more]
CDN$37.99
Amazon CA |
La Descente D'orphee..
From Amazon.com: The myth of Orpheus--the divine musician who went to Hades to rescue his bride Eurydice from the dead and whose song actually persuaded Pluto to release her--has been irresistible to operatic composers from Monteverdi to Offenbach. One [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
