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Les Contraltos

Vivaldi / Pergolesi / Thomas / Schumann / Bach
Release Date: 04/29/2014 
Label:  Naive   Catalog #: 5359   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Antonio Vivaldi,  Ambroise Thomas,  Robert Schumann,  Johann Sebastian Bach,   ... 
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux,  Sara Mingardo,  Delphine Galou,  Nathalie Stutzmann,   ... 
Conductor:  Fabien Gabel
Orchestra/Ensemble:  French National Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

The contraltos Sara Mingardo, Maire-Nicole Lemieux, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sonia Prina, Delphine Galou perform a varied repertoire from Vivaldi to Schumann. The contraltos Sara Mingardo, Maire-Nicole Lemieux, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sonia Prina, Delphine Galou perform a varied repertoire from Vivaldi to Schumann. Read less

Works on This Recording

1.
Orlando furioso, RV 728: Come l'onda by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1727; Venice, Italy 
2.
Gloria in D major, RV 589: Domine Deus, Agnus Dei by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:  Sara Mingardo (Alto)
Period: Baroque 
Written: Venice, Italy 
3.
Mignon: Connais-tu le pays? by Ambroise Thomas
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1866; France 
4.
Il Teuzzone, RV 736: Ti sento, si, ti sento by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:  Delphine Galou (Alto)
5.
Myrthen, Op. 25: no 3, Der Nussbaum by Robert Schumann
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1840; Germany 
6.
Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Agnus Dei by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Nathalie Stutzmann (Alto)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1747-1749; Leipzig, Germany 
7.
Missa Cellensis in honorem, H 22 no 5 "Cäcilienmesse": Qui tollis peccata mundi by Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer:  Nathalie Stutzmann (Alto)
Period: Classical 
Written: 1766; Eszterhazá, Hungary  
8.
Carmen: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle "Habańera" by Georges Bizet
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto)
Conductor:  Fabien Gabel
Orchestra/Ensemble:  French National Orchestra
Written: 1873-1874 
9.
Chansons grises (7): no 5, L'heure exquise by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto), Daniel Blumenthal (Piano)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: by 1893; France 
10.
Deh, memoria by Giacomo Carissimi
Performer:  Sara Mingardo (Alto)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 17th Century; Italy 
11.
A Chloris by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto), Daniel Blumenthal (Piano)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1916; France 
12.
Liederkreis, Op. 39: no 1, In der Fremde by Robert Schumann
Performer:  Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto), Daniel Blumenthal (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1840; Germany 
13.
Orlando furioso, RV anh 84/RV 819: lo sembro appunto quell'augelletto by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:  Delphine Galou (Alto)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1714; Venice, Italy 
14.
Ave Maria by Charles Gounod
Performer:  Nathalie Stutzmann (Alto)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1859; France 

Sound Samples

Gloria in D Major, RV 589: Domine Deus, Rex caelestis
Stabat mater: Quae moerebat et dolebat
Mignon: Act I: Connais-tu le pays?
Myrthen, Op. 25 (text by J. Mosen): Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 3. Der Nussbaum
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Agnus dei
Mass No. 3 in C Major, Hob.XXII:5, "Missa Cellensis in honorem BVM", "Cacilienmesse": Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi
Ottone in Villa, RV 729: Act II: Come l'onda
Carmen: Act I: Habanera: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle
L'Heure exquise: L'Heure exquise: L'heure exquise: L'heure exquise
Deh memoria e che piu chiedi?
Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 1. In der Fremde (In Foreign Parts)
Il Teuzzone, RV 736: Act I: Ti sento, si, ti sento
Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727: Io sembro appunto quell'augelletto
Ave Maria
A Chloris

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