Marais / Le Concert Spirituel Ariane Et Bacchus CD

Herv? Niquet resurrects Ariane et Bacchus (1696), using for the first time the exact performing forces and layout of the Paris Op?ra orchestra in 1700 and thus giving us a historically informed version of this trag?die en musique by Marin Marais. The latter became a viol player at the Acad?mie Royale de Musique in 1676, just as his mentor Lully's Atys triumphed there. Lully subsequently initiated him into the skills of operatic composition, and Ariane et Bacchus was premiered nine years after the older man's death. This production, made possible by the support of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, was performed in concert at the Th??tre des Champs-?lys?es to great acclaim in 2022, when Diapason wrote that the work was 'deservedly rescued from oblivion' and was 'magnified by a sober and telling interpretation from Herv? Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel, in perfect consonance with a remarkable cast', featuring such luminaries as Judith van Wanroij, V?ronique Gens, Mathias Vidal, H?l?ne Carpentier, Marie Perbost, Matthieu L?croart, David Witczak, Tomislav Lavoie and Philippe Est?phe.