Jean Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux (2 CDs)

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

2 CDs

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Artists:: Ainsworth, Hopkins, Whicher, Hall, Tomkins, Aradia Ensemble, Mallon
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2003
Item number:: 5638604
UPC/EAN:: 0730099611824
Release date:: 16.2.2004
Series:: Naxos Opera

Rameau revised his 1737 opera Castor et Pollux in 1754, at the height of the raging debate, the so-called Querelle des Bouffons, over the relative merits of French and Italian opera. Long regarded as Rameau's crowning achievement, it won immediate popular success, not only striking a significant blow for French music over Italian music but for the supporters of Rameau who looked to him to take over Lully's mantle as composer of the French national style. Whereas the operas of Lully had been limited to simple subjects based around romantic love, Rameau took French opera to a greater level of complexity both in subject matter and in musical style. With its wider emotional range and dissonant harmonies, Castor et Pollux is a tense drama of brotherly and romantic love that brings its own heroic rescue of Castor from the Underworld, as Pollux encounters the devils and monsters that try to bar his way.

Disk 1 von 2 (CD)

1 Castor et Pollux: Overture
2 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 1: (Cleone, Phebe)
3 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 2: (Telaire)
4 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 3: (Castor, Telaire, Pollux)
5 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 4: (Choeur des Spartiates)
6 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 4: Air tres pointe, deux menuets
7 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 4: Ariette (Castor)
8 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 4: Deux gavottes
9 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 4: Deux tambourines
10 Castor et Pollux: Act I Scene 5: Entr'acte (Un Spartiate, Castor, Pollux, Choeur, Combat, Telaire)
11 Castor et Pollux: Act II Scene 1: (Troupe de Spartiates)
12 Castor et Pollux: Act II Scene 2: Tristes apprets (Telaire)
13 Castor et Pollux: Act II Scene 3: (Telaire, Phebe)
14 Castor et Pollux: Act II Scene 4: March (Pollux, Choeur)
15 Castor et Pollux: Act II Scene 5: (Pollux, Telaire)
16 Castor et Pollux: Act II Scene 5: Air pour les athletes
17 Castor et Pollux: Act II Scene 5: Air tres gai
18 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 1: Ritournelle Et Air (Pollux)
19 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 2: (Le Grand Pretre, Pollux, Jupiter)
20 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 3: Descente De Jupiter (Pollux, Jupiter)

Disk 2 von 2 (CD)

1 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 4: Entree D'hebe (Choeur Des Plaisirs Celestes)
2 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 4: Recitative (Pollux, Choeur Des Suivantes D'hebe)
3 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 4: (Une Suivante D'hebe)
4 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 4: Recitative (Pollux); Air Gracieux (Hebe)
5 Castor Et Pollux: Act Iii Scene 4: Gavotte 1 & 2; Recitative (Pollux)
6 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 1: Prelude (Phebe, Choeur des Esprits)
7 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 2: Descente de Mercure (Mercure, Pollux, Phebe)
8 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 2: (Phebe, Cleone, Pollux, Choeur et Air des Demons)
9 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 3: (Phebe)
10 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 4: (Castor)
11 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 4: (Choeur des Ombres Heureuses)
12 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 4: Menuet (Une Ombre)
13 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 4: Passepied 1 & 2, Choeur derriere le theatre
14 Castor et Pollux: Act IV Scene 5: (Castor, Pollux); Gavottes
15 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 1: Ritournelle (Telaire, Castor)
16 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 2: (Telaire, Castor, Choeur)
17 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 3: (Telaire, Castor)
18 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 3: Tonnerre (Telaire, Castor)
19 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 4: (Jupiter, Castor, Pollux, Telaire)
20 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 5: (Jupiter)
21 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 5: Chaconne
22 Castor et Pollux: Act V Scene 5: Ariette gracieus (Castor, Choeur)