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Alexis Kossenko delves into the repertoire of one of the most admired orchestras in Europe during Bach's lifetime. The greatest composers of the century composed for this famous ensemble, who were...

The circumstances of the composition of Purcell's only opera, Dido and Aeneas, are unclear. First performed in the 1680s, it received few performances in the composer's lifetime, before disappearing...

Written between 1887 and 1890, Gabriel Faur?'s Requiem is among the best-loved pieces in the choral repertory. Traditionally, Requiems are serious, prayerful laments for the dead. Faur?'s was...

Les Talens Lyriques / Rousset,Christophe Couperin & Moi CD

Best known today as a composer of harpsichord music, Francois Couperin also penned some remarkably beautiful chamber works. Les Nations explores the different musical styles of France and Italy. Each...

Composed on 1686 as part of the festivities organised by the Duc de Vend?me in honour of the Grand Dauphin, during the latter's visit to his estate at the Ch?teau d'Anet in September of that year,...

Written at the request of Louis XIV in honor of his sister-in-law, Henrietta of England, Lully's Le Ballet royal de la naissance de V?nus was performed in 1665 with Henrietta herself as the goddess...

Christophe Rousset leads Talens Lyriques in Mozart's first oratorio, Betulia liberata. It was composed in 1771 to a libretto by Metastasio that traces the well-known biblical story of Judith and...

A keen advocate of the works of Antonio Salieri, Christophe Rousset continues his exploration of the composer's works, having unearthed the manuscript of another masterpiece. The three-act opera...

Couperin's four Concerts Royaux were published in 1722 as a supplement to his third anthology of harpsichord pieces. While the score doesn't mention any instrumentation, we know the composer...

With Th?s?e, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques continue their tour of Lully's operas, in which they have become specialists. Lully's third musical tragedy, and one of the least recorded,...

After two recordings devoted to the harpsichord pieces of Savoyard composer Pancrace Royer, Christophe Rousset, this time conducting, turns to the composer's orchestral suites. Taken from Royer's...