HARMONIA MUNDI (Basf)
1 LP - 25 21954-2 - (p) 1973
1 CD - 74321 32332 2 - (c) 1995

L'EUROPE GALANTE - Ballet représenté en l'an 1697. Paroles de Monsieur de La Motte







André CAMPRA (1660-1744) PROLOGUE




- Ouverture

4' 15" A1

- Air · La Discorde et Vénus: "Quelle soudaine horreur"

6' 51" A2

LA FRANCE




- Air · Cephise: "Paisibles lieux" (André Destouches)

2' 39" A3

- Air · Un Berger: "Soûpirons tous"
3' 32" A4

- Passepied I et II

2' 23" A5

L'ESPAGNE



- Air · Dom Pedro: "Sommeil"
6' 17" A6

- Premier Air pour les Espagnols (Loure)

2' 07" B1

- Air: "El esperar en amor"

2' 35" B2

- Seconde Air · Rondeau

1' 33" B3

L'ITALIE



- Air pour les Masques

1' 13" B4

- Air italien: "Ad un cuore tutto geloso"

3' 51" B5

- La Forlana

1' 17" B6

- Menuet
1' 18" B7

LA TURQUIE




- Air · Zaïde: "Mes yeux" (André Destouches)

3' 54" B8

- Passacaille

3' 34" B9

- Air · La Discorde et Vénus: "C'en est fait"
2' 16" B10





 
Rachel YAKAR, Sopran (La Discorde, Céphise, Une Espagnole)
Marjanne KWEKSILBER, Sopran (Vénus, Zaïde, Une Femme Espagnole)
René JACOBS, Countertenor
LA PETITE BANDE / Sigiswald Kuijken, Konzertmeister / Gustav LEONHARDT, Leitung
- Bruce Haynes, Ku Ebbinghe, Barthold Kuijken, Oswald van Olmen, Blockflöte
- Bruce Haynes, Pol Dombrecht, Ku Ebbinghe, Pieter Dhont, Barockoboe
- Hansjürg Lange, Claude Wassmer, Barockfagott
- Sigiswald Kuijken, Lucy van Dael, Janine Rubinlicht, Dirk Verelst, Jan Reichow, Gilbert Bezzina, Violine
- Laura Jeppeson, Marten Boeken, Janneke van der Meer, Ruth Hesseling, Wiel Peeters, Martin Sonneweld, Viola
- Wieland Kuijken, Viola da gamba
- Wieland Kuijken, Violoncello
- Anner Bylsma, Jordi Savall, Richte van der Meer, Basse de Violon
- Bob van Asperen, Cembalo

 






Luogo e data di registrazione
Schloß Amerongen (Holland) - 1973


Registrazione: live / studio
studio

Recording Supervision
Dr. Thomas Gallia


Engineer
Sonart


Prima Edizione LP
Harmonia Mundi (Basf) | 25 21954-2 | 1 LP - durata 49' 35" | (p) 1973


Edizione CD
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | LC 00761 | 74321 32332 2 | 1 CD - durata 77' 38" | (c) 1995 | ADD

Cover Art

"Die Entführung der Europa" - mit freundlicher Genehmigung von: Giraudon, Paris


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A few years after his arrival in Paris in 1694, André Campra was able to take over as Lully's successor in the field of ballet and opera. He did so, it is true, with a certain reserve, for the published his first ballet-opera anonymously, but it was precisely this Europe galante which brought him the necessary success. He continued Lully's style and thus remained completely traditional in the form of the ballets as in the instrumentation of the music. His personal accent lies more in the liveliness of his dances and in the legance of the sung airs.
A pupil and friend of Campra was André Cardinal Destouches. The three airs which he - also anonymously - contributed to L'Europe galante are among the most deeply felt and demanding in the whole work. Two of them appear in our recording.
The title itself, "L'Europe galante", indicates that such a ballet can have no dramatic action. It consists rather of "galant" impressions with apparent fragments of action, which determine the entire text, "galant" conversations playing with thoughts and formulations.
The courtly dance was geometrically ordered, in artistic and, even in rapid movments, in controlled steps. Sung speech was similarly subject to the metrical rules of poetry. For French art, an "ordered" harmony remained important, as far as buildings and landscape gardening were concerned as well as in music.