Une Nouvelle f¿¿te Baroque!

by Emmanuelle Haim, Le Concert d'Astree

Overview

This "new Baroque festival" consists of a pair of concerts, recorded live at the Staatsoper in Berlin, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Baroque opera group Le concert d'Astree and its director, Emmanuelle Haim, and devoted to raising money for brain research. Haim notes the wide range of Baroque repertory the group has taken on over those 20 years and explains that the musicians have narrowed those down to five composers: Purcell, Campra, Handel, Rameau, and Vivaldi. These show Haim's versatility, both as a conductor and as a judge of talent, for excepting perhaps Handel and Vivaldi (the latter is present only with a single aria from Judith triumphans), these require entirely different musical approaches and really different kinds of singers. The anthology approach here might serve listeners who haven't heard much from Haim and Le concert d'Astree; it will also be a nice keepsake for those who are already fans. Note that in the suite of dances from Rameau's Les boreades, the conductor is none other than Simon Rattle, who has longstanding connections with this group; these are deliciously graceful. The sound from the Staatsoper loses a bit of immediacy, but it's nothing for which the supremely communicative Haim can't compensate. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2022
Label:	ERATO
UPC:	0190296278426

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Emmanuelle Haim   Primary Artist,Conductor
Le Concert d'Astree   Primary Artist,Orchestra,Vocal Ensemble
Lea Desandre   Featured Artist,Soprano (Vocal),Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Jarrett Ott   Featured Artist,Baritone (Vocal)
Eva Zaicik   Featured Artist,Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Laurent Naouri   Bass Baritone,Featured Artist
Rolando Villazon   Tenor (Vocal),Featured Artist
Simon Rattle   Conductor
Natalie Dessay   Featured Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Michael Spyres   Tenor (Vocal),Featured Artist
Jocelyn Daubigney   Flute,Featured Artist
David Plantier   Violin,Featured Artist
Mikhail Timoshenko   Featured Artist,Baritone (Vocal)
Mathias Vidal   Tenor (Vocal),Featured Artist
Andrea Mastroni   Bass (Vocal),Featured Artist
Isabelle Druet   Featured Artist,Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Sandrine Piau   Vocals,Featured Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Lenneke Ruiten   Featured Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Tassis Christoyannis   Featured Artist,Baritone (Vocal)
Le Concert d'Astree Choir   Choir/Chorus,Featured Artist
Marie-Claude Chappuis   Featured Artist,Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani   Tenor (Vocal),Featured Artist
Sabine Devieilhe   Featured Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Emőke Barath   Featured Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Emmanuelle de Negri   Featured Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Victor Sicard   Featured Artist,Baritone (Vocal)
Carlo Vistoli   Featured Artist,Counter Tenor (Vocal)

Technical Credits

Anonymous   Poetry
Nicola Francesco Haym   Poetry,Librettist
Giacomo Rossi   Poetry
Thomas Morell   Poetry,Librettist
Abbe Simon-Joseph Pellegrin   Poetry,Librettist
Jean-Philippe Rameau   Composer
Henry Purcell   Composer
Antonio Vivaldi   Composer
George Frederick Handel   Composer
Pietro Metastasio   Librettist
Benedetto Pamphili   Poetry,Librettist
Nicola Giuvo   Poetry,Librettist
Louis Fuzelier   Poetry,Librettist
Cav. Jacopo Cassetti   Poetry,Librettist
Aaron Hill   Poetry
Camille Bresch   Photography
Fanny Destombes   Photography
Jacques Pradon   Librettist
Thea Nicolas   Photography
Riccardo Broschi   Poetry,Librettist
Rainer Maillard   Recording Producer
Peter Adamik   Photography
Marianne Rosenstiehl   Cover Photo
Andre Campra   Composer
Christian Lahondes   Engineer
Agostino Piovene   Librettist
Emmanuelle Haim   Liner Notes
Charles-Antoine Le Clerc de La Bruere   Poetry,Librettist
Pierre Joseph Bernard   Poetry,Librettist
Nahum Tate   Poetry,Librettist
Raffi Kevorkian   Recording Producer
Louis de Cahusac   Poetry
Alain Lanceron   Executive Producer
Caroline Doutre   Photography
Julien Bourdais   Editing
Antoine Danchet   Poetry,Librettist