![]() A contemporary composer (born 1990), and female, which unfortunately is still a rarity, I was intrigued. I had already checked this out when I read the original review. Camille Pépin – Chamber Music (NoMad 2019) I tried it again, and I just don’t get it: the interpretation is so bland and boring to my ears, I really don’t understand what Classica likes about this. I was already confused when I saw the original review of this in Classica some months ago. But if you like Vivaldi, this is a no brainer. Only two things to say here from my side: Dantone’s Vivaldi playing is truly fantastic, but unfortunately I can stand Vivaldi’s operas in doses of 10 min max. Antonio Vivaldi: Il Giustino – Ottavio Dantone (Naïve 2019) No formal rating given my ignorance of the composer, but informally this is 4 stars upwards. Monteverdi’s operas clearly influenced the Versailles court and Charpentier’s composing. ![]() It immediately reminded me of Monteverdi, which turns out isn’t misleading. I have zero benchmark to compare the version to obviously, but Sebastien Daucé’s Ensemble Correspondances plays truly engaging early baroque vocal music, beautifully sung and played. Listening to this album as part of writing this blog post made it clear to me that I really missed something here. He occasionally pops up on some French baroque compilation I own, but in my entire library which really isn’t that small, I have a total of 2 albums featuring this composer. This theme is actually the prelude to his Te Deum.īeyond this, again giving away my ignorance, I barely knew anything about him. If like me you’ve grown up in Central Europe and have been watching television, you typically know Charpentier as the composer of the Eurovision theme, the fanfare that was played when several European countries decided to do a joint production. Yet another French composer that I know very little about. ![]() Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Histoires sacrées – Christophe Daucé – Ensemble Correspondances – Harmonia Mundi 2019 This is the continuation of a blog post started last weekend.
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