Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi, Hélène Guilmette, Tassis Christoyannis, Thomas Dolié, Cyrille Dubois, David Witczak & Chloé Briot - Jean-Baptiste Stuck: Polydore (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 889 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 365 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:37:43
Classical | Label: Glossa
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 889 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 365 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:37:43
Classical | Label: Glossa
With Jean-Baptiste Stuck's Polydore, Gyorgy Vashegyi's directing talents alight once again on a French opera from the era between Lully and Rameau. Whist Louis XIV's reign was gradually drawing to a close, his nephew, duke Philippe d'Orleans - due to become regent for Louis XV on the death of the child's great-grandfather, the Sun King - was greatly expanding his own court cultural activities (within which he had a pronounced predilection for Italian music). The Tuscany-born, later-naturalized Frenchman, Giovanni Battista Stuck was a beneficiary of ducal and regental munificence and, given that taste for opera continued at full tilt in Paris after Louis XIV's death in 1715, Stuck was well-placed to prove his worth. His most highly regarded opera is Polydore, a 1720 tragedie en musique with a libretto confected by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin: a mythological tale of Greeks, Thracians and Trojans, interweaving war, family and love, with tragedy brewing up throughout the work.