Michael Greenberg, Lisa Goode-Crawford, Les Enfants d’Apollon - Pancrace Royer: Pyrrhus (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 78:04+64:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | ALPHA953 | Recorded: 2012
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 78:04+64:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | ALPHA953 | Recorded: 2012
This world première recording, with a first-rate cast, brings to light a major work of the French operatic heritage. Pyrrhus by Pancrace Royer (also noted for his very fine – and virtuosic – harpsichord music) was first performed early in the reign of Louis XV. It is one of the twenty-one tragédies lyriques on the subject of the Trojan War that were performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) between 1687 and 1730.