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Lully Collection - 21 published opera scores online in pdf.
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scores of Psyché (1678), Le bourgeois Gentilhomme, Amour malade & La revente des
habits.
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Essays on the Vanderbilt University website.
Oeuvres
lyriques parodiées (1669-1752) - liste de travail en cours
English translations of 8 Quinault librettos.
Le
Théâtre de sa Gloire: Essays on Persée, tragédie en Musique by Quinault and
Lully. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Volume 10 (2004) Number 1.
The entire issue is available online. I found especially interesting the article
by Ken Pierce and Jennifer Thorpe,
The Dances in Lully's Persée.
The Operatic Parodies of Florent Carton Dancort, by John S. Powell. Cambridge
Opera Journal 13:1 (2001).
Music and the self-fulfilling prophecy in Molière's Le mariage forcé, by
John S. Powell. Early Music 213-228 (May 1993).
The Metamorphosis of Psyché, by John S. Powell (pdf). (Paper presented at
"Les genres de Psyché", Université de Valenciennes, December 2003).
Image 33 from the above: Comparison of scenes in Psyché (1671) & Psyché (1678) (pdf).
Performance Practice at the Théâtre de Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française,
after the manuscript indications of Charpentier, by John S. Powell (pdf).
(Paper presented at "Charpentier and His World" at the University of Birmingham,
U.K., April 2004).
Essays on
Persée, Journal of 17th Century Music vol. 10 no. 1 (2004).
Persée libretto with English translation.
Christophe Alvarez, age 21, whose master's thesis at the Sorbonne was on
Lully's Armide, has been performing Armide in Paris with his
baroque ensemble Le Point du Jour.
Details.
Forthcoming Performances
Lully, Cadmus et Hermoine (1673). HIP staging directed by Benjamin
Lazar. Musical director: Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique. Choreographer:
Gudrun Skamletz. Cadmus: André Morsch, baritone; Hermione: Claire Lefiliâtre,
soprano; Charite / Melisse: Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano; Amour / Pales:
Camille Poul, soprano; Arbas / Pan: Arnaud Marzorati, baritone; Nourrice /
Echion: Jean-François Lombard, haute-contre. Paris, 21-27 January 2008; Opera de
Rouen, 3, 5, 6 February 2008; Versailles, Autumn 2008.
Details.
Lully. Ballet des Arts (1663/1685). Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais.
Marie-Geneviève Massé, Compagnie de danse baroque l'Eventail.
Details. With 12 dancers, an acrobat and a marionettist. (I don't know
whether it is an historically-inspired staging.) Festival de la Chabotterie,
12-13 August 2008; Festival de Sablé sur Sarthe, 19 August 2008; L'Orangerie du
Château de Versailles, 2-3 October 2008.
Recordings
| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Proserpine (1680).
Glossa (2 CDs, May 2008). Presumably this is the French language
edition with book, which will be followed a few months later by
an international edition with translations. Hervé Niquet, Le
Concert Spirituel. Proserpine: Salomé Haller, soprano; Aréthuse:
Blandine Staskiewicz, mezzo-soprano; Cérès: Stéphanie d'Oustrac,
mezzo-soprano; Alphée: Cyril Auvity, haute-contre; Mercure:
François-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre; Ascalaphe: Benoît Arnould,
baritone; Jupiter: Marc Labonnette, baritone; Pluton: João
Fernandes, bass. Recorded without the prologue.
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Cadmus et Hermoine
(1673). Alpha (DVD, forthcoming September 2008). HIP staging
directed by Benjamin Lazar. Musical director: Vincent Dumestre,
Le Poème Harmonique. Choreographer: Gudrun Skamletz. Cadmus:
André Morsch, baritone; Hermione: Claire Lefiliâtre, soprano;
Charite / Melisse: Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano; Amour / Pales:
Camille Poul, soprano; Arbas / Pan: Arnaud Marzorati, baritone;
Nourrice / Echion: Jean-François Lombard, haute-contre. |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Ballet des Arts
(1663/1685). Accord (Forthcoming August 2008).
Details. Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais. Lully ou le
Musicien du Soleil, Volume X. |
 Jean-Baptiste
Lully, Juan Hidalgo, Michel Lambert, Francesco Cavalli.
Musiques pour le Mariage de Louis XIV (1660).
Details. Accord 442 9894 (2 CDs, October 2007). Hugo Reyne,
La Simphonie du Marais. Françoise Masset, soprano; Celine Ricci,
soprano; François-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre; Florian Westphal,
bass. Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil, Volume IX.
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Thésée (1675). cpo 777 240-2 (3 CDs, June 2007).
Steven Stubbs & Paul O'Dette, Boston Early Music Festival
Orchestra. Thésée: Howard Crook, tenor; Médée: Laura Pudwell,
mezzo-soprano; Aeglé: Ellen Hargis, soprano; Aegée: Harry van
der Kamp, bass; Cléone: Suzie Le Blanc, soprano; Dorine & Vénus:
Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano; Minerve & La Grande Pretresse:
Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Arcas: Olivier Laquerre,
bass-baritone; Marek Rzepka, bass-baritone; Bacchus: Marc
Molomot, tenor; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Un Plaisir: Aaron
Engebreth, baritone; Yulia van Doren, soprano; Teresa Wakim,
soprano.
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Thésée (1675).
Emmanuelle Haïm, Le Concert d'Astrée. Forthcoming. |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Amadis (1684).
Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques. Forthcoming. |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Armide (1686).
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants. Forthcoming. |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Armide (1686).
Naxos. Recorded in February 2007. Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette.
Armide: Stéphanie Houtzeel, mezzo-soprano; Renaud: Robert
Getchell, tenor; Hidraot & Ubalde: François Loup, bass; Le
Chevalier Danois: Tony Boutté, tenor; La Haine: William Sharp,
baritone; Phénice: Ann Monoyios, soprano; Sidonie: Miriam Dubrow,
soprano. [Online
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Psyché. cpo 777
367-2 (3 CDs, forthcoming 2008). Steven Stubbs & Paul O'Dette,
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus. Carolyn Sampson,
soprano; Karina Gauvin, soprano. |
 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Amadis (1684). Accord 442 8549 (3 CDs, October
2006).
NewOlde.com 2006 Best French Baroque Opera CD Award |
Background on Amadis |
Facsimile libretto and score (pdf). Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie
du Marais & Le Choeur du Marais. Corisande: Françoise Masset,
soprano; Arcabonne / Une Héroïne: Celine Ricci, soprano; Oriane:
Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Amadis / Un Héros:
François-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre; Florestan: Bertrand
Chuberre, bass; Arcalaüs: Florian Westphal, baritone; Urgande:
Camille Poul, soprano; Suivante d'Urgande / Une Bergère: Agathe
Boudet, soprano; Suivante d'Urgande / Une Bergère / Une Captive:
Hélène Richer, soprano; Un Berger / Un Captif: Benoît Porcherot,
tenor; Un Berger / Un Captif: Thomas Van Essen, baritone; Alquif
/ Un Geôlier / L'ombre d'Ardan: Matthieu Heim, bass. Vol. 8 in
Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil". Another superb
recording of similar overall quality to last year's Isis.
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Un Voyage au coeur des
Opéras de Jean-Baptiste Lully (Isis, Amadis, Alceste, Persée,
Armide). K617 176 (1 CD, November 2005). Olivier Schneebeli,
Les Pages et Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de
Versailles. Marek Stryncl, Musica Florea (Prague).
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Isis (1677). Accord 476 8048 (3 CDs, November
2005). [Details]
[Review
of live performance] [English
translation of the libretto] Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du
Marais. Io, who becomes Isis: Françoise Masset, soprano; La
Renommée, Iris & Hebé: Isabelle Desrochers, soprano; Calliope,
Mycène & Syrinx: Valérie Gabail, soprano; Junon: Guillemette
Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Apollon, Pirante, 1er Berger
& Erinnis: Robert Getchell, tenor; Mercure & 2d
Berger: Howard Crook, tenor; Hierax & Pan: Bertrand Chuberre,
bass; Jupiter: Bernard Deletré, bass; Neptune & Argus: Renaud
Delaigue, bass. Vol. 7 in Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien
du Soleil".
2005 NewOlde.com Best French Baroque Opera CD Award. This is
perhaps the most enjoyable Lully recording to date, a superb
performance of one of Lully's finest operas. The well-known
frost scene "avec une voix tremblante" at the beginning of Act
III was the model for the frost scene in Purcell's King
Arthur. The Entrée des Forgerons, with rhythmic anvil
accompaniment which follows immediately as the next test for Io,
is unique to my knowledge. Another seeming influence on Purcell
is Fame's trumpet tune in the Prologue, which sounds like "I
come to sing great Zempoalla's story" in The Indian Queen.
Hugo Reyne reconstructed the original version from the 1719
score, the 1677 libretto, and a set of 10 separate parts
published in 1677. The booklet includes an excellent English
translation by John Tyler Tuttle.
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 Molière
/ Lully. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Alpha 700 (2 DVDs -
apparently multi-region, September 2005).
Details. HIP staging directed by Benjamin Lazar. Musical
director: Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique. Choreography:
Cécile Roussat.
Complete cast list. Subtitles in French, English, German,
Spanish & Dutch.
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Persée. EuroArts 2054178 (DVD - apparently
multi-region, March 2005). Live recording. 127 minutes (about
2/3 of Persée, minus prologue and Act III, scene 4).
Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. HIP staging by Opera
Atelier. Cyril Auvity, Marie Lenormand, Stephanie Novacek,
Monica Whicher, Olivier Laquerre, Alain Coulombe.
Antonia L. Banducci, The Opera Atelier Performance (Toronto
2000): The Spirit of Lully on the Modern Stage. JSCM Vol.
10, No. 1 (2004).
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully, André Danican Philidor, Nicolas Desrosiers, Robert
Cambert & Claude Babelon. Musique pour les Mousquetaires.
Calliope CAL 9527 (1 CD, May 2005).
Details. Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais. Jean-Denis
Monory, narrator.
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 Jean-Henri
D'Anglebert. Pièces de clavecin & airs d'après M. de Lully.
Alpha 074 (2 CDs, May 2005).
Details. Céline Frisch, harpsichord & organ. Café Zimmerman.
Includes the original, orchestral versions of 11 movements by
Lully transcribed for harpsichord by D'Anglebert.
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 Les
Premiers Opéras François: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Les fêtes
de l'Amour et de Bacchus (LWV 47, 1672) & Robert Cambert,
Pomone (1671, surviving excerpts). Accord 476 2437 (2 CDs
2004). Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais. Françoise Masset,
Isabelle Desrochers & Sophie Landy, sopranos; Renaud Tripathi &
Vincent Lievre-Picard, haute-contres; Howard Crook, tenor;
Jean-Louis Georgel, baritone; Bruno Rostrand, bass. Vol. 6 in
Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil".
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Grands Motets:
Miserere, Jubilate Deo, Quare Fremuerunt gentes, Domine salvum
fac regem. K617 157 (1 CD 2004). Olivier Schneebeli, Les
Pages et Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Marek Stryncl, Musica Florea (Prague). Amel Brahim-Djelloul,
soprano; Damien Guillon, mezzo-soprano; Howard Crook,
haute-contre; Hervé Lamy, tenor; Arnaud Marzorati, bass.
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Roland. Ambroisie
AMB 9949 (3 CDs 2004). Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques,
Chœur de l'Opera de Lausanne. [Interview
with C. Rousset.] Roland: Nicolas Testé; Angélique:
Annamaria Panzarella; La fée principale / Logistille: Salomé
Haller; Témire: Monique Zanetti; Médor: Olivier Dumait;
Astolphe: Robert Getchell; Ziliante / Demogorgon: Evguenyi
Alexiev; Tersandre / Un insulaire: Emiliano González-Toro;
Coridon / Un insulaire: Anders Dahlin; Une suivante: Hélène
Essade; Une suivante: Delphine Gillot. A fine performance and
recording of what might be Lully's best opera.
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Le Triomphe de l'Amour. Opéra-ballet, LWV 59
(1681). Accord 476 1053 (2 CDs 2003). Hugo Reyne,
La Simphonie du Marais, Le Chœur de Marais. Vénus / Diane /
2de Indienne: Françoise Masset, soprano; Amphitrite /
La Nuit / 1ere Indienne: Julie Hassler, soprano;
Nymphe de Flore: Sophie Landy, soprano; L'Amour: Clara
Georgel-Delunsch, soprano enfant; 1er Plaisir / Le
Mystère / 1er Carien / Arcas: Renaud Tripathi,
haute-contre; Le Silence / 2d Carien / Mercure:
Jean-Louis Georgel, baritone; 2d Plaisir / Neptune /
Chef de Cariens / Un Indien / Jupiter: Philippe Roche, bass.
Vol. 5 in Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil".
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Persée. Astrée E
8874. (3 CDs 2002). Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques.
Paul Agnew, Annamaria Panzarella, Salomé Haller, Jérôme Correas,
Vincent Billier, Monique Simon, Robert Getchell, Béatrice
Mayo-Félip, Laurent Slaars, Cyril Auvity, Bruno Rostand. Highly
recommended!
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Les Divertissements de
Versailles. Erato 092744655-2. (1 CD 2002). William
Christie, Les Arts Florissants. Sophie Daneman, Olivier
Lallouette, Rinat Shaham, François Bazola. Excerpts from Psyché,
L'Amour médecin, George Dandin, Armide, Les Plaisirs de L'île
Enchantée, Isis, Les Muses & Roland.
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully & Molière. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Accord 472
512-2. (2 CDs 2002). Hugo Reyne. La Simphonie du Marais.
Françoise Masset, Julie Hassler, François-Nicolas Geslot, Renaud
Tripathi, Bruno Boterf, Yves Coudray, Jean-Louis Georgel,
Philippe Roche. Vol. 4 in the series "Lully ou le Musicien du
Soleil". Includes the play and the music. (A solution for
English-speaking audiences is to perform the play in English and
the music in French, as was done in the fine 1999 production by
the NY Baroque Dance Company et al. at Alliance Française in
NYC.)
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Le Carrousel de Monseigneur; Les Plaisirs de L'île
Enchantée; La Grotte de Versailles. Accord 461 811-2. (1 CD
2001). Hugo Reyne. La Simphonie du Marais. Julie Hassler,
Raphaële Kennedy, Françoise Masset, Renaud Tripathi, Jean-Louis
Georgel, Philippe Roche. Vol. 3 in the series "Lully ou le
Musicien du Soleil".
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Ballet Royal de Flore.
Accord 461 804-2. (1 CD, 2001). Hugo Reyne. La Simphonie du
Marais. Julie Hassler, Raphaële Kennedy, Françoise Masset,
Emmanuel Bardon, Renaud Tripathi, Jean-Louis Georgel, Philippe
Roche, Benajmin Lazar. Vol. 2 in the series "Lully ou le
Musicien du Soleil".
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. L'Idylle sur la Paix de
Jean Racine; Le Temple de la Paix. Accord 206 872, reissued
as 465 345-2. (1 CD, 1999). Hugo Reyne. La Simphonie du Marais.
Françoise Masset, Julie Hassler, Jean-François Lombard, Patrick
Aubailly, Arnaud Marzorati. Vol. 1 in the series "Lully ou le
Musicien du Soleil".
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully, transcribed for
harpsichord by Jean-Henri d'Anglebert. Les Songes agréables
d'Atys. Parnassie (May 2002). Brigitte Tramier. Recorded in
1999 at the Chateau de Versailles on a 1628 Ruckers.
Transcriptions of movements from Atys, Armide, Cadmus &
Hermoine, Acis & Galatée, Le Triomphe de l'Amour & Phaeton. I
highly recommend her CD of d'Anglebert harpsichord works on
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Acis & Galatée. DG-Archiv 453497 (2 CDs 1998).
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Jean-Paul Fouchécourt,
Véronique Gens, Monique Simon, Jean-Louis Meunier, Howard Crook,
Françoise Masset, Rodrigo del Pozo, Mireille Delunsch, Laurent
Nauori, Thierry Félix. A great leap forward from Minkowski's
hurried and heavy vibrato-laden Phaëton. It's difficult to
resist repeated encores of the great closing Passacaille, when
time permits. The performance at the French Embassy with
Fouchécourt, Naouri and the NY Baroque Dance Company was the
American highlight of Y2K.
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Alceste. Astrée E 8527 (3 CDs 1994). Jean-Claude
Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy. Véronique Gens,
Howard Crook, Jean-Philippe LaFont, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Sophie
Marin-Degor, Jean-François Gardeil, François Loup, Gregory
Reinhart, Michel Dens, Claudine Le Coz, Miriam Ruggeri, Olivier
Lallouette, Douglas Nasrawi.
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Armide. Harmonia
Mundi HMC 901456/7 (2 CDs 1993). Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium
Vocale Ghent, La Chappelle Royale. Guillemette Laurens,
Véronique Gens, Noémi Rime, Howard Crook, Bernard Deletré, Giles
Ragon, Luc Coadou, John Hancock.
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 Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Phaëton. Erato 4509-91737-2. (2 CDs 1994). Marc
Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Howard Crook, Rachel Yakar,
Jennifer Smith, Véronique Gens, Gérard Theruel, Jean-Paul
Fouchécourt, Philippe Huttenlocher, Laurent Naouri, Virginie
Pochon, Jérôme Varnier, Florence Couderc. A great opera, but it
could use a new recording, without Smith and Yakar.
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully & Molière.
Comédies-Ballets. Erato 2292 452862 (1 CD 1990). Marc
Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Isabelle Poulenard, Agnes
Mellon, Gilles Ragon, Michel Laplénie, Michel Verschaeve,
Bernard Deletré, Philippe Cantor.
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JP Reissued on Apex 2564-62184-2 (2005) as part of
a 2-CD set, paired with excerpts from Phaëton.
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Te Deum & Grands
Motets. Volume 1. FNAC 592308 (1 CD 1993). Hervé Niquet, Le
Concert Spirituel. Isabelle Desrochers, Marie-Louise Duthoit,
Dominique Favat, Hervé Lamy, Richard Duguay, Peter Harvey. The
Naxos reissues of FNAC CDs include competent notes and
translations, unlike the barebones Virgin reissues. See the
essays about Lully's Grands Motets in Jean-Baptiste Lully and
the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R.
Anthony. John Hajdu Heyer (ed.) Cambridge U. Press, 1989.
FR Reissued on Naxos 8.554397 (1999).
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Grands Motets. Volume
2. FNAC 592303 (1 CD 1994). Hervé Niquet, Le Concert
Spirituel. Véronique Gens, Brigitte Vinson, Jean-Paul
Fouchécourt, Hervé Lamy, Peter Harvey.
FR Reissued on Naxos 8.554398 (2000).
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Grands Motets. Volume
3. FNAC 592002 (1 CD 1994). Hervé Niquet, Le Concert
Spirituel. Isabelle Desrochers, soprano; Julie Hassler, soprano;
Brigitte Vinson, mezzo-soprano; Jean-Paul Fouchécourt,
haute-contre; Stephan Van Dyck, tenor; Bernard Delétré, bass;
Peter Harvey, bass.
FR Reissued on Naxos 8.554399 (2000).
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Volumes 1-3 reissued as a 3-CD set, Les Grands Motets,
by Naxos France (2003).
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully. Petits Motets.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 1274 (1 LP 1987) & HMC 901274 (1 CD). William
Christie, Les Arts Florissants. Monique Zanetti & Arlette
Steyer, sopranos; Marie Boyer, mezzo-soprano; Gérard Lesne,
countertenor; Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, tenor; François Fauché,
bass.
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Books
| Jean Duron (ed.) Cadmus & Hermoine de
Jean-Baptiste Lully et Philippe Quinault. Livret, études et
commentaires. CMBV-HC9. 260 pages. Mardaga (January 2008).
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| Vincent Borel. Jean-Baptiste Lully. 149
pages. Actes Sud (January 2008).
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| Marcelle Benoit. Les événements musicaux
sous le règne de Louis XIV: Chronologie. Annals of music in
France, 1643-1715. 404 pages. Picard 2004. Reviewed by Clifford
Bartlett in EMR 101:11 (June 2004).
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| John Spitzer & Neal Zaslaw. The Birth of the
Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815.
Details. 624 pages. Oxford University Press, 2004. Includes
a 35-page chapter on Lully's orchestra.
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| Georgie Durosoir. Les ballets de la cour de
France au XVIIe Siécle. (In French.)
Éditions
Papillon (2004).
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| Jérôme de La Gorce. Jean-Baptiste Lully.
(In French.) 910 pages. Fayard. (2002).
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| Philippe Beaussant. Lully ou le Musicien du
Soleil. (In French.) 893 pages. Gaillimard: Théâtre des
Champes-Elysées. (1992).
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| Manuel Couvreur. Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Musique et Dramaturgie au Service du Prince. (In French.) M.
Vokar 1992.
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| John Hajdu Heyer (ed.) Jean-Baptiste Lully
and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R.
Anthony. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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| John Hadju Heyer (ed.) Lully Studies.
Compilation of additional essays about Lully. 275 pages.
Cambridge U. Press, 2000.
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| Carl B. Schmidt. The Livrets of
Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies Lyriques: A catalogue raisonne.
Review by Lois Rosow. Broude Brothers, 1995. 633 pages.
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| Bruce Gustafson & Matthew Leshinskie. A
Thematic Locator for the Works of Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Coordinated with Herbert Schneider's Catalogue. 56 pages.
Broude Brothers 1989.
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| Herbert Schneider.
Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke von
Jean-Baptiste Lully (LMV). 570 pages. Hans Schneider, 1981.
Out of print.
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| Jérôme de la Gorce & Herbert Schneider (eds.)
Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully - L'oeuvre de Lully:
Etudes des sources. Hommage à Lionel Sawkins. 424 pages.
Details. Georg Olms Verlag AG, 1999.
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| Jérôme de la Gorce & Herbert Schneider (eds.)
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Actes du Colloque Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
Heidelberg 1987. Laaber-Verlag, 1990. ISBN: 3890072119. |
| James R. Anthony. French Baroque Music: From
Beaujoyeulx to Rameau. 620 pages. Amadeus Press. Rev. ed.
1997.
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| Downing A. Thomas. Aesthetics of Opera in
the Ancien Régime: 1647-1785. Cambridge University Press.
320 pages. January 2003. "This is the first study to recognise
the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. The
author considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by
Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music
to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the
long-term development of opera in eighteenth-century humanist
culture. He argues that French opera moved away from the
politics of the absolute monarchy in which it originated to
address Enlightenment concerns with sensibility and feeling. The
book combines close readings of significant seventeenth-century
and eighteenth-century operatic works, circumstantial writings
and theoretical works on theatre and opera, together with a
measure of reception history. Thomas examines key works by
Lully, Rameau, and Charpentier, among others, and extends his
reach from the late seventeenth century to the end of the
eighteenth."
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| Paul F. Rice. Performing Arts at
Fontainebleau from Louis XIV to Louis XVI. 299 pages. UMI
Research Press 1989.
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| Jérôme de La Gorce. Féeries d'Opéra: Décors,
machines et costumes en France 1645-1765. (In French.) 151
pages. Patrimoine. (1997).
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| Jérôme de La Gorce. L'Opéra à Paris au temps
de Louis XIV: Histoire d'un Théâtre. (In French.) 220 pages.
Desjonquères. (1992).
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| Pascal Denécheau. Thésée de Lully et
Quinault, histoire d'un opéra. Étude de l'oeuvre de sa création
à sa dernière reprise sous l'Ancien Régime (1675-1779).
Doctoral thesis, December 2006. Université de Paris IV -
Sorbonne / Universität des Sarrlandes, Saarbrücken. 828 pages. |
Music
| Jean-Henri D'Anglebert. Oeuvres pour clavier.
Edited by Kenneth Gilbert. Heugel,
Le Pupitre. Includes D'Anglebert's transcriptions of
movements from Lully operas. |
| Fitt for the Manicorde: 58 pieces for
harpsichord, clavichord and organ. Edited by Christopher
Hogwood.
Edition HH. "A hitherto unpublished collection of keyboard
music, suitable for harpsichord and organ, but specifically
mentioning the clavichord, from the 1680s. Amongst the varied
dance movements and suites is music by Lully, La Barre, John
Roberts and Thomas Farmer. This collection shows the strong
influence of French keyboard music on English taste, and is also
extensively marked with original fingering, of great value to
the modern performer. An extended set of bravura variations on
La Folia, and two colourful organ voluntaries add contrast to
this tuneful selection of domestic music." Reviewed by Clifford
Bartlett in Early Music Review 94: 5-6 (October 2003):
"It is extremely well produced in oblong format, spiral bound
(thus opening flat) and neatly typeset." |
Recent Performances
Jean-Baptiste Lully & Molière. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Details. Dutch Early Music Organization. Stage Director: Benjamin Lazar.
Choreograife: Cécile Roussat. Costumes: Alain Blanchot. Le Poème Harmonique,
directed by Vincent Dumestre. Musica Florea, directed by Marek Strycl. The first
staged production of the complete work since its premiere in 1669. 27 & 28
August 2004. Stadsschouwburg. (There may be additional performances elsewhere in
Europe.)
Review by Johan van Veen.
Jean-Baptiste Lully. Le Ballet de l'Amour Malade (1657). Compagnie de
danse baroque L'Eventail. Marie-Geneviève Massé, choreographer. Ensemble
Stradivaria, Daniel Cuiller, director. Stage direction: Vincent Tavernier. Cast:
Isabelle Desrouchers, Marie-Louise Duthoit & Bernard Deletré, plus 16 dancers, 2
acrobats, 1 marionnettist, & 28 musicians.
Festival de la Chabotterie. 12, 13 August 2004.
Festival de Sablé. 24 August 2004.
www.newolde.com/lully.htm
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully, Juan Hidalgo, Michel Lambert, Francesco Cavalli.
Musiques pour le Mariage de Louis XIV (1660).
Details. Accord 442 9894 (2 CDs, October 2007). Hugo Reyne,
La Simphonie du Marais. Françoise Masset, soprano; Celine Ricci,
soprano; François-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre; Florian Westphal,
bass. Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil, Volume IX.
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Thésée (1675). cpo 777 240-2 (3 CDs, June 2007).
Steven Stubbs & Paul O'Dette, Boston Early Music Festival
Orchestra. Thésée: Howard Crook, tenor; Médée: Laura Pudwell,
mezzo-soprano; Aeglé: Ellen Hargis, soprano; Aegée: Harry van
der Kamp, bass; Cléone: Suzie Le Blanc, soprano; Dorine & Vénus:
Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano; Minerve & La Grande Pretresse:
Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Arcas: Olivier Laquerre,
bass-baritone; Marek Rzepka, bass-baritone; Bacchus: Marc
Molomot, tenor; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Un Plaisir: Aaron
Engebreth, baritone; Yulia van Doren, soprano; Teresa Wakim,
soprano.
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Amadis (1684). Accord 442 8549 (3 CDs, October
2006).
NewOlde.com 2006 Best French Baroque Opera CD Award |
Background on Amadis |
Facsimile libretto and score (pdf). Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie
du Marais & Le Choeur du Marais. Corisande: Françoise Masset,
soprano; Arcabonne / Une Héroïne: Celine Ricci, soprano; Oriane:
Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Amadis / Un Héros:
François-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre; Florestan: Bertrand
Chuberre, bass; Arcalaüs: Florian Westphal, baritone; Urgande:
Camille Poul, soprano; Suivante d'Urgande / Une Bergère: Agathe
Boudet, soprano; Suivante d'Urgande / Une Bergère / Une Captive:
Hélène Richer, soprano; Un Berger / Un Captif: Benoît Porcherot,
tenor; Un Berger / Un Captif: Thomas Van Essen, baritone; Alquif
/ Un Geôlier / L'ombre d'Ardan: Matthieu Heim, bass. Vol. 8 in
Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil". Another superb
recording of similar overall quality to last year's Isis.
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Isis (1677). Accord 476 8048 (3 CDs, November
2005). [Details]
[Review
of live performance] [English
translation of the libretto] Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du
Marais. Io, who becomes Isis: Françoise Masset, soprano; La
Renommée, Iris & Hebé: Isabelle Desrochers, soprano; Calliope,
Mycène & Syrinx: Valérie Gabail, soprano; Junon: Guillemette
Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Apollon, Pirante, 1er Berger
& Erinnis: Robert Getchell, tenor; Mercure & 2d
Berger: Howard Crook, tenor; Hierax & Pan: Bertrand Chuberre,
bass; Jupiter: Bernard Deletré, bass; Neptune & Argus: Renaud
Delaigue, bass. Vol. 7 in Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien
du Soleil".
2005 NewOlde.com Best French Baroque Opera CD Award. This is
perhaps the most enjoyable Lully recording to date, a superb
performance of one of Lully's finest operas. The well-known
frost scene "avec une voix tremblante" at the beginning of Act
III was the model for the frost scene in Purcell's King
Arthur. The Entrée des Forgerons, with rhythmic anvil
accompaniment which follows immediately as the next test for Io,
is unique to my knowledge. Another seeming influence on Purcell
is Fame's trumpet tune in the Prologue, which sounds like "I
come to sing great Zempoalla's story" in The Indian Queen.
Hugo Reyne reconstructed the original version from the 1719
score, the 1677 libretto, and a set of 10 separate parts
published in 1677. The booklet includes an excellent English
translation by John Tyler Tuttle.
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Molière
/ Lully. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Alpha 700 (2 DVDs -
apparently multi-region, September 2005).
Details. HIP staging directed by Benjamin Lazar. Musical
director: Vincent Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique. Choreography:
Cécile Roussat.
Complete cast list. Subtitles in French, English, German,
Spanish & Dutch.
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Persée. EuroArts 2054178 (DVD - apparently
multi-region, March 2005). Live recording. 127 minutes (about
2/3 of Persée, minus prologue and Act III, scene 4).
Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. HIP staging by Opera
Atelier. Cyril Auvity, Marie Lenormand, Stephanie Novacek,
Monica Whicher, Olivier Laquerre, Alain Coulombe.
Antonia L. Banducci, The Opera Atelier Performance (Toronto
2000): The Spirit of Lully on the Modern Stage. JSCM Vol.
10, No. 1 (2004).
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully, André Danican Philidor, Nicolas Desrosiers, Robert
Cambert & Claude Babelon. Musique pour les Mousquetaires.
Calliope CAL 9527 (1 CD, May 2005).
Details. Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais. Jean-Denis
Monory, narrator.
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Jean-Henri
D'Anglebert. Pièces de clavecin & airs d'après M. de Lully.
Alpha 074 (2 CDs, May 2005).
Details. Céline Frisch, harpsichord & organ. Café Zimmerman.
Includes the original, orchestral versions of 11 movements by
Lully transcribed for harpsichord by D'Anglebert.
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Les
Premiers Opéras François: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Les fêtes
de l'Amour et de Bacchus (LWV 47, 1672) & Robert Cambert,
Pomone (1671, surviving excerpts). Accord 476 2437 (2 CDs
2004). Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais. Françoise Masset,
Isabelle Desrochers & Sophie Landy, sopranos; Renaud Tripathi &
Vincent Lievre-Picard, haute-contres; Howard Crook, tenor;
Jean-Louis Georgel, baritone; Bruno Rostrand, bass. Vol. 6 in
Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil".
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Le Triomphe de l'Amour. Opéra-ballet, LWV 59
(1681). Accord 476 1053 (2 CDs 2003). Hugo Reyne,
La Simphonie du Marais, Le Chœur de Marais. Vénus / Diane /
2de Indienne: Françoise Masset, soprano; Amphitrite /
La Nuit / 1ere Indienne: Julie Hassler, soprano;
Nymphe de Flore: Sophie Landy, soprano; L'Amour: Clara
Georgel-Delunsch, soprano enfant; 1er Plaisir / Le
Mystère / 1er Carien / Arcas: Renaud Tripathi,
haute-contre; Le Silence / 2d Carien / Mercure:
Jean-Louis Georgel, baritone; 2d Plaisir / Neptune /
Chef de Cariens / Un Indien / Jupiter: Philippe Roche, bass.
Vol. 5 in Accord's series "Lully ou le Musicien du Soleil".
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully & Molière. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Accord 472
512-2. (2 CDs 2002). Hugo Reyne. La Simphonie du Marais.
Françoise Masset, Julie Hassler, François-Nicolas Geslot, Renaud
Tripathi, Bruno Boterf, Yves Coudray, Jean-Louis Georgel,
Philippe Roche. Vol. 4 in the series "Lully ou le Musicien du
Soleil". Includes the play and the music. (A solution for
English-speaking audiences is to perform the play in English and
the music in French, as was done in the fine 1999 production by
the NY Baroque Dance Company et al. at Alliance Française in
NYC.)
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Le Carrousel de Monseigneur; Les Plaisirs de L'île
Enchantée; La Grotte de Versailles. Accord 461 811-2. (1 CD
2001). Hugo Reyne. La Simphonie du Marais. Julie Hassler,
Raphaële Kennedy, Françoise Masset, Renaud Tripathi, Jean-Louis
Georgel, Philippe Roche. Vol. 3 in the series "Lully ou le
Musicien du Soleil".
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Acis & Galatée. DG-Archiv 453497 (2 CDs 1998).
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Jean-Paul Fouchécourt,
Véronique Gens, Monique Simon, Jean-Louis Meunier, Howard Crook,
Françoise Masset, Rodrigo del Pozo, Mireille Delunsch, Laurent
Nauori, Thierry Félix. A great leap forward from Minkowski's
hurried and heavy vibrato-laden Phaëton. It's difficult to
resist repeated encores of the great closing Passacaille, when
time permits. The performance at the French Embassy with
Fouchécourt, Naouri and the NY Baroque Dance Company was the
American highlight of Y2K.
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Alceste. Astrée E 8527 (3 CDs 1994). Jean-Claude
Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy. Véronique Gens,
Howard Crook, Jean-Philippe LaFont, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Sophie
Marin-Degor, Jean-François Gardeil, François Loup, Gregory
Reinhart, Michel Dens, Claudine Le Coz, Miriam Ruggeri, Olivier
Lallouette, Douglas Nasrawi.
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Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Phaëton. Erato 4509-91737-2. (2 CDs 1994). Marc
Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Howard Crook, Rachel Yakar,
Jennifer Smith, Véronique Gens, Gérard Theruel, Jean-Paul
Fouchécourt, Philippe Huttenlocher, Laurent Naouri, Virginie
Pochon, Jérôme Varnier, Florence Couderc. A great opera, but it
could use a new recording, without Smith and Yakar.
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