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Lully: Alceste [Box set]

~ Jean-Baptiste Lully (Composer)
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  • Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Audio CD (8 Feb 1995)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Astree
  • ASIN: B000026DRP
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 302,615 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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  1. Alceste (ou le triomphe d'Alcide)
    Composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully
    Performed by Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Sagittarius Vocal Ensemble, Compagnie Barocco
    with Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Howard Crook, Sophie Marin-Degor, Gilles Ragon, Jean-François Gardeil, François Loup, Gregory Reinhart, Michel Dens, Véronique Gens, Claudine Le Coz, Miriam Ruggeri, Olivier Lallouette, Douglas Nasrawi
    Conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire

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5.0 out of 5 stars Alcest, by Lully is a Landmark in the history of French Opera, 7 Jun 2007
By Anthony H. Conroy (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews
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It would seem that this set is very hard to find as Astree Auvidis discontinued this back in the mid 90's, and to date (June 07) there does not seem to be an alternative complete recording.
For Jean-Claude Malgoire this version was his second having previously done a 3 disc Vinyl LP version back in 1975 on CBS 79301 also with the Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy
but not with the same cast as the later version. I felt the treatment of the newer CD version was slightly faster and missing were the part where the Children sang the small chorus in the LP version.Having said that i was not unhappy and modern advances in recording have breathed new life into this seldom heard Opera.
It was ironic that i posted a "Want it" on the net and managed to obtain it from a private collector in the USA after looking at all the Amazon sites for months.
The LP version also hard to find may be easier if you do the homework.
This Opera is both musical and dramatic and mostly due to the variety of scoring. The blending of the different genres was unique at the time. Get it if you can,wonderful stuff!
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0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best of J.-B. Lully, 27 Feb 2002
Lully's "Alceste" ontains music, that's fulfilled
with wide area of emotions.
This music is made with very good artists and
all parts of this opera are played with relativ
fast tempos (that's good).
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