Charpentier: Médée Classical Alpha

Charpentier: Médée

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AJ 1020

Charpentier: Médée

Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA1020

Release Date: January 2024
Originally recorded in January 2023

Genre:
Classical

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Médée , a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December 1693, when Charpentier was exactly fifty years old and at the height of his career. Louis XIV attended the performance, proving that it was an eagerly awaited event. Yet this sombre drama, which disconcerted the public, was withdrawn after just ten performances, and not heard again until 1976. A specialist in the French repertory and a close associate of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, where he has followed all the advances in research and historically informed performance for thirty-five years, Hervé Niquet has endeavoured, in presenting this new Médée , scrupulously to apply all the scholarly findings available to us today.

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Reviews

**** Excellent album

Philippe Venturini Classica magazine (France) – July/August 2024

“… All told. This is a long-overdue and welcome fresh perspective on Charpentier’s only fully fledge tragédie en musique.”

David Vickers – Gramophone magazine – March 2024

****

Manuel Brug – Rondo magazine (Germany) – January 2024

Performance **** Recording ****

“…A magnificent performance.”

Berta Joncus – BBC Music magazine – February 2024

“… Uniformly excellent performances and some fascinating new details and emphases make this a must-have disc.” ****

Dan Cairns – The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 31 December 2023

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