A Garden of Voices in full bloom

Le Jardin des Voix. Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen (extracts); Domenico Mazzocchi: La catena d’Adone (extractos); Luigi Rossi: Un peccator pentito - Spargete sospiri; Michel Lambert: Que d’amants séparés, Vos mépris chaque jour; Marc Antoine Charpentier: Vénus et Adonis Nymphes, ne songez plus; Jean Philippe Rameau: Pygmalion - Fatal Amour, cruel vainqueur; André Campra: Enée et Didon; Georg Friedrich Händel: Radamisto - Morrà Zenobia ancor?... O cedere o perir!; Georg Friedrich Händel: Amadigi - Minacciami, non ho timor; Wolfgang Amadè Mozart: Ascanio in Alba - Al chiaror di que’ bei rai; André Grétry: Zémire et Azor - Veillons, mes sœurs; François-André Philidor: Tom Jones - C’est vous, mon père. Amel Brahim-Djelloul (soprano), Claire Debono (soprano); Judith Van Wanroij (soprano); Xavier Sabata (countertenor); Andrew Tortise (tenor); André Morsch (bariton); Konstantin Wolff (bariton bass). Les Arts Florrissants. William Christie. A 76-minute CD, recorded live in March 2005 at the Cité de la Musique (Paris). Virgin Classics 0946 3 38154 2 1

William Christie is well known as one of the ‘Grandseigneurs’ in the Baroque music scene. At the same time, he has made himself a name as a teacher and is in "tireless search for new talent" as we learn from booklet to the present CD. It is in connection with this search that this recording originated. In 2002 Christie’s group ‘Les Arts Florissants’ launched an initiative to promote new singers, they called it ‘Académie du Jardin des Voix’. The seven most promising singers of the second of these académies are recorded on this CD, which got the same name. The programme of the CD therefore is not programmatic; rather it is a selection of pieces which enable these upcoming stars to demonstrate the best of their voice.

The CD’s opening is a selection of numbers from The Indian Queen by Henry Purcell, which was finished by his younger brother…

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