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Stéphane Fuget, Les Épopées - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Miserere, Quare fremuerunt gentes, Jubilate Deo (2022)

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Stéphane Fuget, Les Épopées - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Miserere, Quare fremuerunt gentes, Jubilate Deo (2022)

Stéphane Fuget, Les Épopées - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Miserere, Quare fremuerunt gentes, Jubilate Deo (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 66:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS059 | Recorded: 2021

Stéphane Fuget has a highly disciplined ensemble that brings out the depth and intricate layers of Lully’s music with fine diction (for the vocalists) and tempos that highlight the dramatic content…the performance is engaging and powerful, showing the pride and elegance of the French court of Louis XIV. This is one excellent disc and should be part of any collection.

Stéphane Fuget & Les Epopées - Benedictus (2023)

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Stéphane Fuget & Les Epopées - Benedictus (2023)

Stéphane Fuget & Les Epopées - Benedictus (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 357 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 171 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:18
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

Here, four exceptional Grands Motets composed by Lully to the greatest glory of Louis XIV have been brought together: Plaude Laetare Gallia was performed in 1668 as a jubilant celebration of the birth of his first son, the Grand Dauphin; Benedictus is a piece of extraordinary architecture that transcends the sacred drama; Notus in Judea Deus, composed in 1685 shortly before Lully's death, is a true victory song celebrating the glory of God; finally, Domine Salvum fac Regem, an energetic "God save the King", was systematically sung in honour of the sovereign. The sublime Magnificat by Henry Du Mont, who was in charge of the Music of the King's Chapel until 1683, adds yet more splendour. Stephane Fuget has brought together the best performers, a veritable "army of generals" with a vast choir composed of exceptional singers, to bring these legendary pieces back to life amid the magnificence of Versailles.

Stéphane Fuget & Les Epopées - Charpentier: Aupres Du Feu l'On Fait l'Amour. Serious Airs & Drinking Songs (2023)

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Stéphane Fuget & Les Epopées - Charpentier: Aupres Du Feu l'On Fait l'Amour. Serious Airs & Drinking Songs (2023)

téphane Fuget & Les Epopées - Charpentier: Aupres Du Feu l'On Fait l'Amour. Serious Airs & Drinking Songs (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 377 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:16:29
Classical, Vocal | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

"Percé jusques au fond du coeur" ("Pierced to my heart's depths") is a tragic proclamation of Le Cid's voice, at last put to music by "Mr Charpentier, famed for a thousand works that charmed all of France". This collection of courtly arias, serious songs and drinking songs, played both at the Court of Louis XV and in the inner circles of the French bourgeoisie, is a marvellous maze on the Map of Tendre developed by Charpentier, a poet-musician whose sophistication vies with an irresistible sense of theatricality! Under the direction of Stéphane Fuget, the cream of French vocalists restores the original aura of these gems, with glittering ornamentation.

Stéphane Fuget, Les Epopées - Lully: Dies Irae; O Lachrymae; De Profundis (2021)

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Stéphane Fuget, Les Epopées - Lully: Dies Irae; O Lachrymae; De Profundis (2021)

Stéphane Fuget, Les Epopées - Lully: Dies Irae; O Lachrymae; De Profundis (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 373 Mb | Total time: 69:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS 032 | Recorded: 2020

The great composer Jean-Baptiste Lully deployed all his musical science in his grand motets to express intense emotion; Madame de Sévigné said: "all eyes were filled with tears". With their large chorals, small ensembles, trios, duets, solos and orchestral symphonies, these large religious compositions are representative of the pomp deployed at Louis XIV's court, at the service of the monarch's absolute power. If O Lachrymae fideles, composed in winter 1664, goes from contained emotion to jubilant dance, the two other motets are deeply solemn. The Dies Irae and De Profundis were played at the funeral of the King's wife, queen Maria-Teresa of Austria, in 1683, in the Basilique Saint-Denis. Les Epopées will give a sparkling, theatrical and expressive version of this music, with rich and abundant ornamentation, echoing the sun's play on Versailles's windows, mirrors and gilt.

Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (2022)

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Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (2022)

Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 862 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 418 Mb | 03:02:24
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

Ulysses and Monteverdi: passion and action at the heart of musical drama. Penelope sings of her endless wait, her hope to see the king of her heart again, while her suitors besiege her to take her hand and the throne. The return of Ulysses to Ithaca after twenty years of wandering brings the drama to a close. Travelling incognito disguised as an old man, he arrives at the palace for the contest that Penelope has arranged: whoever manages to bend Odysseus' former bow will have the hand of the queen. The old man in rags presents himself to the court, and achieves his revenge… Stéphane Fuget conducts this masterpiece, using every instrumental spell to fulfil his great ambition: to restore to Monteverdi's music and singing all of it's ornaments and colors, thanks to a magnificent cast and their passionate support.

Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget - Lully: Dies Irae (Collection Grands motets, Vol. 1) (2021)

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Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget - Lully: Dies Irae (Collection Grands motets, Vol. 1) (2021)

Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget - Lully: Dies Irae (Collection Grands motets, Vol. 1) (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 368 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:07
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versaille

The notion of interpretation constantly raises the question of how to read a score, and therefore of the very subject matter of the score. Particularly in the Baroque period, and especially in the seventeenth-century, the score is but an infrastructure that the composer leaves behind to allow his work to be brought to life. One should not be led astray by it as you might by a trompel'œil; it lacks a great deal of information: nuances, instrumentation, ornaments, playing styles, etc. The majority of these composers thus leave the performers a great deal of latitude for the completion of their scores in order to bring them to back to life.