Carolyn Sampson: Les Sirènes. Thomas-Louis Bourgeois - Cantates
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- Prélude
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- Lentement et tendrement
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- Vivement
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- Gratieusement
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- Vivement et très viste
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- Gratieusement et marqué
- Prélude, Gravement
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- Gracieusement
- Récit, Orage
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- Gracieusement
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- Gayment et gracieusement
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- Air, gayment et gracieusement
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Contents
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Preface writer
Anne-Catherine Bucher
Anne-Catherine Bucher studied harpsichord and basso continuo with Michèle Dévérité, Robert Kohnen, Françoise Lengellé, Huguette Dreyfus and attended master classes with Jesper Christensen and Gustav Leonhardt. She has performed all over Europe and America, both as soloist and as a member of Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Le Concert Brisé (William Dongois) and La Compania Musical (Josep Cabré), as well as participating in numerous CD and radio recordings. In 2000, she founded the ensemble Le Concert Lorrain with the aim of promoting a musical elite in her home region. Her CD recording together with this ensemble of Le Manuscrit des Ursulines de la Nouvelle- Orléans was awarded the highest distinction by the magazine Goldberg (a specialist publication for Early Music). A further recording by Le Concert Lorrain, Les Petits Motets by Henry Madin, was awarded the “Diapason d’or découverte”. Anne-Catherine Bucher’s intense musicological work leads to the creation, time and again, of very unusual concert programs which are made accessible to a very wide audience in novel concert forms which she has developed, e.g., the ‘Cafés Baroques’. She is a regular guest at the Opéra National de Lorraine in projects involving Early Music and Baroque or Classical opera productions. She teaches harpsichord at the Metz Conservatoire and is a regularly invited to lecture at international academies and master classes in France, Poland, Belgium, Finland, Mexico and Cuba. Personal details
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Ensemble
Le Concert Lorrain
Le Concert Lorrain was founded in 2000 and is coconducted by the French harpsichordist Anne- Catherine Bucher and the German violoncellist Stephan Schultz. As a result of this configuration, the ensemble dedicates itself especially to German and French baroque music. Le Concert Lorrain impresses thanks to the high quality of its interpretations as well as the originality of its programming. Thus, during the last ten years it has frequently been invited to perform at the most famous concert halls and festivals. Le Concert Lorrain regularly works with renowned artists such as Andreas Scholl, Carolyn Sampson, Christoph Prégardien, James Gilchrist, Joanne Lunn, Katherine Fuge, Robin Blaze, Peter Kooij, Pierre Cao, Daniel Reuss, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Ralph Otto etc. The ensemble also performs with renowned choirs such as Arsys Bourgogne, the Dresdner Kammerchor, Cappella Amsterdam, and the Nederlands Kamerkoor. Radio presentations, including concerts, have been broadcast by France Musique, Radio Classique, the BBC, SR, RB and DLF, alongside television coverage by the ARD. The ensemble’s first recording, Le Manuscrit des Ursulines de la Nouvelle-Orléans (The New-Orleans Ursuline Manuscript) of Henry Desmarest appeared in March 2002, to great acclaim. It was awarded no fewer than five “Diapasons”, and received a “five stars” rating from the international Goldberg magazine. The group’s following recording was Les petits motets d’Henry Madin (The small-scale motets of Henry Madin), which was awarded, among others, a “Diapason d’or découverte” (Gold Award for Discovery). Le Concert Lorrain places particular emphasis on honoring the goals established at its formation : the introduction of children of all ages to their music, attracting new areas of the public, and the establishment of continuing opportunities for the most accomplished students and young professionals. Personal details
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Conductor
Anne-Catherine Bucher
Anne-Catherine Bucher studied harpsichord and basso continuo with Michèle Dévérité, Robert Kohnen, Françoise Lengellé, Huguette Dreyfus and attended master classes with Jesper Christensen and Gustav Leonhardt. She has performed all over Europe and America, both as soloist and as a member of Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Le Concert Brisé (William Dongois) and La Compania Musical (Josep Cabré), as well as participating in numerous CD and radio recordings. In 2000, she founded the ensemble Le Concert Lorrain with the aim of promoting a musical elite in her home region. Her CD recording together with this ensemble of Le Manuscrit des Ursulines de la Nouvelle- Orléans was awarded the highest distinction by the magazine Goldberg (a specialist publication for Early Music). A further recording by Le Concert Lorrain, Les Petits Motets by Henry Madin, was awarded the “Diapason d’or découverte”. Anne-Catherine Bucher’s intense musicological work leads to the creation, time and again, of very unusual concert programs which are made accessible to a very wide audience in novel concert forms which she has developed, e.g., the ‘Cafés Baroques’. She is a regular guest at the Opéra National de Lorraine in projects involving Early Music and Baroque or Classical opera productions. She teaches harpsichord at the Metz Conservatoire and is a regularly invited to lecture at international academies and master classes in France, Poland, Belgium, Finland, Mexico and Cuba. Personal details
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Soloist - soprano
Carolyn Sampson
Equally at home on the concert and opera stages, Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes all over the world. In addition to engagements with, among others, the English National Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Opéra de Paris, the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra de Montpellier as well as the Opéra National du Rhin, she has sung concerts, among others at the BBC Proms. In Europe her many appearances have included concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The English Concert, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In the US Carolyn Sampson has featured as soloist with San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra. Her many recordings include a highly-acclaimed CD of Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Mass. Her recording of Purcell songs was selected as Editor’s Choice in the December 2007 issue of Gramophone Magazine, as was her first recital CD, Fleurs, in May 2015. Personal details
Reviews
Carolyn Sampson ist eine großartige Künstlerin, die aber noch viel zu wenig bekannt ist. Mit dieser Aufnahme singt sie sich allerdings bravourös in die erste Liga.
Markus Dippold, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 1. Dezember 2012
Die Interpreten gestalten [die Kantaten] zu kunst- und geschmackvollen kleinen Dramen […] Carolyn Sampson gelingt es immer wieder, inden einzelnen Arien schöne Melodienbögen zu spannen, sie zu wahren Kantilenen zu formen. Wird der Text dramatischer, […] hat sie kaum Mühe, sich dank ihrer flexiblen Stimme auch von einer stark emotionalen Seite zu zeigen. Der „Concert Lorrain” ist ihr in jedem Moment ein zuverlässiger Partner.
pizzicato, November 2012
These excellently recorded performances display enormous expertise. Accompanying bass parts are superbly characterised and the continuo group […] is always compellingly alert. But all this virtue would be nothing without Carolyn Sampson's magnificent singing. She brings astonishing flexibility to ornamentation and her subtle use of vibrato vastly enhances the dramatic effect of the more torrid passages. Crucially, she understands the scale of these pieces: hers are not grandstanding operativ performances; they show true respect for the chamberlike nature of these delightful cantatas.
Jan Smaczny, BBC music magazine, November 2012
Carolyn Sampson displays her real verve and stylistic affinity in this kind of repertoire […] The band plays, as noted, with considerable dash, directed by harpsichordist-director Anne-Catherine Bucher. A fine acoustic, and recording, are complemented by helpful notes […]
Jonathan Woolf, musicweb-international.com, September 2012
Carolyn Sampson füllt nicht nur diese gestalterische Aufgabe mit Bravour aus, sondern überzeugt, klug und hochsensibel begleitet vom Ensemble Le Concert Lorrain unter Anne-Catherine Bucher, auch in der Art, wie sie trotz fast schlackenlos klarer Stimme ein Höchstmaß an Ausdruck herstellt: Barocke Raritäten zum Genießen.
Susanne Benda, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 9. August 2012
In fresh, free voice, Carolyn Sampson does Bourgeois proud. She understands that airy grace and languid sensuality are of the essence, but never falls into the trap of winsomeness. […] In such delectable performances [Bourgeois's cantatas] make a very welcome discovery.
Richard Wigmore, Gramophone, August 2012
Carolyn Sampson ist die ideale Interpretin für diese expressive Musik: mit einnehmender Stimmfärbung beherrscht sie stilsicher die barocke Verzierungskunst. Vor allem bietet sie eine immense Klangfarbenpalette an.
Markus Dippold, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 10. Juli 2012
Carolyn Sampson is a consummate artist and she gives herself completely to these mini-dramas. […] this release is well worth exploring.
David Hansell, Early Music Review, Juni 2012
[…] expresiva y dramática […]
Javier Sarría Pueyo, Diverdi, Juni 2012
Bourgeois hat da eine sehr abwechslungsreiche Musik geschaffen, die vom Vokalpart einiges an stimmlicher Präsenz und an spannungsgeladenem Affekt fordert und auch von der instrumentalen Seite her neben dem Streichersatz mit anspruchsvollen Flötenpartien aufwartet. Carolyn Sampson zeigt sich in ihrem lebhaften Aufspüren der tieferen Schichten des Textinhalts sehr wandlungsfähig.
Thomas Bopp, klassik.com, 31. Mai 2012
[…] this is an outstanding disc, and for my part, I would welcome any of the remaining 40 cantatas of Bourgeois performed by this group. If you love French Baroque music, you simply must get this disc.
Bertil van Boer, Fanfare, April 2012
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