Rivales Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin

• Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729 - 1817):
• 1Monsigny: La Belle Arsène: Aria. "Où suis-je ?…"03:29
• Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749 - 1794):
• 2Edelmann: Ariane dans l'isle de Naxos: Scene. "Mais Thésée est absent…"07:25
• Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782):
• 3Bach: La Clemenza di Scipione, Op. 14: Duo "Me infelice che intendo…"07:45
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787):
• 4Gluck: La Clemenza di Tito, Wq. 16: Aria. "Se mai senti…"10:21
• 5Gluck: Alceste, Wq. 44: Aria. "Divinités du Styx…"04:03
• Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis (1769 - 1819):
• 6Persuis: Fanny Morna, ou l'Écossaise: Aria. "Ô divinité tutélaire…"08:07
• André-Modeste Gretry (1741 - 1813)
• 7Gretry: L'Embarras des richesses: Aria. "Dès notre enfance unis tous deux…"03:11
• Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842):
• 8Cherubini: Démophon: Scène. "Un moment à l’autel…"07:43
• Antonio Sacchini (1730 - 1786):
• 9Sacchini: Renaud: Aria. "Barbare Amour, tyran des cœurs…"03:48
• André-Modeste Gretry:
• 10Gretry: Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les mœurs du bon vieux tems: Aria. "Cher objet de ma pensée…"02:38
• Nicolas Dalayrac (1753 - 1809):
• 11Dalayrac: Camille, ou Le souterrain: Duo. "Ciel protecteur des malheureux…"04:37
• Total Runtime01:03:07

Info for Rivales

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.

Veronique Gens, soprano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Le Concert de la Loge
Julien Chauvin, violin, musicoal direction

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