Les Paladins (music ensemble) explained

Les Paladins is a French instrumental and vocal ensemble specialising in the performance and recording of rarely performed Baroque music. It was founded in 2001 and takes its name from Rameau's opera Les Paladins. The ensemble's founder and conductor is the baritone singer and harpsichordist, Jérôme Correas.^{[1] [2]}

Repertoire

Two of the ensemble's ten recordings are from live performances at the Festival de musique baroque d'Ambronay—Hasse's cantata Serpentes ignei in deserto (Fiery Serpents in the Desert) and Soleils Baroques, a concert of music by Luigi Rossi and Marco Marazzoli which included their setting of the cantata Il predica del sole (The Sun's Sermon).^[3] Les Paladins' recording of Cavalli's rarely performed opera L'Ormindo for Pan Classics using historically informed performance practice, was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Bestenliste (Quarterly Critics' Choice) in 2007.^[4] The ensemble also gave France's first performance in modern times of Virgilio Mazzocchi and Marco Marazzoli's opera L'Egisto. The new production premiered at the Abbaye de Royaumont in July 2011, followed by a tour of other French theatres, including the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in December of that year.^[5]

Discography

• Handel: Cantates et duos italiens (Sandrine Piau, soloist). Label: Arion (2001)
• Handel: Apollo e Dafne, Label: Arion (2002)
• Porpora

Leçons des ténèbres. Label: Arion (2005)

• Carissimi

Histoires sacrées. Label: Pan Classics (2005)^[6]

• Hasse

Serpentes ignei in deserto. Label: Ambronay Éditions (2006)^[7]

• Mazzocchi

Madrigali dialoghi. Label: Pan Classics (2006)^[8]

• Cavalli

L'Ormindo. Label: Pan Classics (2006)^[9]

• Rossi and Marazzoli: Soleils Baroques. Label: Ambronay Éditions (2008)
• Le Triomphe de l'amour (Sandrine Piau, soloist). Label: Naïve (2011)^{[10] [11]}
• Tenebris. Label: Cyprès (2012)

External links

• • L'Egisto on Le magazine de l'opéra baroque with production photos from the 2011 Les Paladins production and extracts from reviews in La Croix, Diapason, and Opéra
• Rehearsal for the Les Paladins production of L'Egisto (Abbaye de Royaumont, July 2011). Official YouTube channel of Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains.

Notes and References

1. Ashley, Tim (24 October 2014). "Les Paladins/Correas/Piau review – a beguiling love letter to Rameau". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
2. Malta Independent (23 October 2011). "Jerome Correas To direct Les Paladins". Retrieved 23 June 2015.
3. Roche, Elizabeth (January 2010). "The moral oratorio", p. 51. Early Music, Vol. 38, Issue 1
4. [Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik]
5. Roux, Marie-Aude (19 October 2011. "Le premier opéra italien, farce mêlant théâtre populaire et musique savante". Le Monde. Retrieved 27 June 2015 .
6. Lehnigk, Christiane (5 May 2005). "Geistliche Geschichten von Giacomo Carissimi". Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved 23 June 2015 .
7. Vickers, David (2007). "Hasse: The Fiery Serpents in the Wilderness: A superb package but is it enough to restore the composer's reputation?". Gramophone. Vol. 84, p. 90. Online version retrieved 23 June 2015.
8. Milanesi, Andrea (28 October 2007). Madrigali e Dialoghi di Mazzocchi, la musica al servizio della Parola. Avvenire. Retrieved 23 June 2015 .
9. Vickers, David (August 2010). "Cavalli's L'Ormindo: An engaging performance of this rarely-performed 17th-century opera". Gramophone. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
10. Wigmore, Richard. "Le Triomphe de l'amour: Piau sings of love and fury in her native French". Gramophone. Retrieved 23 June 2015 .
11. Shengold, David (August 2012). "Sandrine Piau: "Le Triomphe de L'Amour"". Opera News, Vol. 22, No. 2. Online version Retrieved 23 June 2015.