Aparté reviews
Accents (Ensemble K)
Ensemble K/Simone Menezes, et al (Aparté)
Salieri: Armida
Lenneke Ruiten, et al; Choeur de Chambre de Namur; Les Talens Lyriques/Christoph Rousset (Aparté)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Conunova)
Alexandra Conunova(violin), Paolo Corsi (harpsichord), et al (Aparté)
A-L Couperin: Pièces de clavecin
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) (Aparte)
Mozart: Betulia Liberata, K118
Accentus; Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset, et al (Aparte)
A Scarlatti: Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia
Les Accents/Thibault Noally, et al (Aparté)
Berg • Schreker • Webern: Orchestral Works
Auvergne National Orchestra/Roberto Forés Veses (Aparté)
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Totentanz
Beatrice Berrut; Czech National Symphony Orchestra/Julien Masmondet (Aparté)
Telemann: Seliges Erwägen
Anna Lucia Richter, Hanna Zumsande, Julienne Mbodjé, Colin Balzer, Michael Feyfar, Peter Harvey, Henk Neven; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried von der Goltz (Aparté)
R Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Works
Ophélie Gaillard; Beatrice Uria Monzon, Alexandra Conunova, Dov Scheindlin, Vassilis Varvaresos; Czech National Symphony Orchestra/Julien Masmondet (Aparté)
Vivaldi: I Colori dell'ombra
Ophélie Gaillard (cello); Pulcinella Orchestra (Aparté)
Boulanger Sisters: Clairières and Mélodies Double Review
Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano) (Avie) and Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Tristan Raës (piano) (Aparte)
A clutch of Vivaldi arias and concertos delivered with panache
‘Ophèlie Gaillard brings a joyous and incisively idiomatic grace to these performances'
An Imaginary Meeting (Bach and Handel)
Lina Tur Bonet (violin), Dani Espasa (harpsichord) (Aparté)
Mozart: Youth Symphonies
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried von der Goltz (Aparté)
Grétry: Raoul Barbe-Bleue
Chantal Santon-Jeffery, et al; Orkester Nord/Martin Wåhlberg (Aparté)
Lully: Isis
Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (Aparté)
A radiant restoration of Lully’s Isis
'Rousset pushes performers to their dramatic limits which highlights their flawless execution'
L'Opera du Roi soleil
Katherine Watson (soprano); Les Ambassadeurs/Alexis Kossenko (Aparté)
Judith Van Wanroij sings Lully's Alceste
Loosely based on Euripides’s drama Alcestis, Lully’s tragédie en musique spans the gamut of human emotion, from high tragedy to frothy comedy. Love in its many guises – passionate, flirtatious, noble and selfless – is the driving force of the opera. The work’s ultimate hero is Alcide (Hercules), a thinly disguised allusion to Louis XIV, whom Lully celebrates in the fawning Prologue and with bellicose and triumphant music.