Véronique Gens

Soprano

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The Legend of Sacred Music

from Allegri's Miserere to Barber's Agnus Dei

CD 1 79.15

1) Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901 - Requiem : Dies irae 2.07

Chorus & Orchestra of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / Michel Corboz

2) Samuel Barber 1910-1981 - Agnus Dei 7.42

Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill

3) Georg Friedrich Handel 1685-1759 - Dixit Dominus 5.18

Taverner Choir & Players / Andrew Parrott

4) Gregorio Allegri 1582-1652 - Miserere (excerpt) 6.49

Taverner Consort / Andrew Parrott

5) Johann-Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 - "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (from Cantata BWV 147) 3.29

King’s College Choir, Cambridge / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / David Willcocks

6) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 - Laudate Dominum (excerpt. Vesperae solennes de confessore) 5.25

Barbara Hendricks soprano / Academy Chorus & Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner

7) Antonio Lotti 1667-1740 - Crucifixus 3.05

Taverner Choir / Andrew Parrott

8) Johann-Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 - Mass in B minor BWV 232 : Gloria 7.02

Chœur & Orchestre du Collegium Vocale de Gand / Philippe Herreweghe

9) Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924 - Cantique de Jean Racine 5.50

Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill

10) Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924 - Missa da Gloria : Kyrie 4.43

Chorus and Orchestra of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / Michel Corboz

11, 12) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 - Requiem Kyrie 2.13 / Lacrimosa 3.36

Schütz Choir – London Classical Players / Roger Norrington

13) Joseph Haydn 1732-1809 - Die Schopfung : Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes 3.28

Barbara Bonney soprano – Hans Peter Blochwitz ténor – Jan Hendrik Rootering basse / Südfunk-Chor & Stuttgart Radio Orchestra / Neville Marriner

14) Franz Schubert 1797-1828 - German Mass D 872 : Heilig? Heilig, heilig 2.27

Chor & Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Wolfgang Sawallisch

15) Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 - Die Ehre Gottes aus der Nature (Die Himmel rühmen) Op.48 n°4 2.28

New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra / Wilhelm Pitz

16) Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847 - Elias: Alsdann wird euer Licht hervorbrechen 3.05

Chor des Städtischen Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf / Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker / James Conlon

17) Maurice Duruflé 1902-1986 - Ubi caritas 2.37

Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill

18, 19) Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924 - Requiem Pie Jesu 3.17 / In paradisum 3.59

Magali Dami soprano / Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental de Lausanne / Michel Corboz

CD 2 78.18

1) Georg Friedrich Handel 1685-1759 - The Messiah: Alleluia 3.59

Taverner Choir & Players / Andrew Parrott

2) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 1710-1736 - Stabat Mater: Stabat Mater 4.39

Gérard Lesne alto – Véronique Gens soprano – Il Seminario Musicale

3) Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741 - Gloria in D major RV 589: Gloria in excelsis Deo 2.26

Taverner Consort, Choir & Players / Andrew Parrott

4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 - Great Mass in C minor K.427 : Et incarnatus est 8.26

Ileana Cotrubas soprano

New Philharmonia Orchestra / Raymond Leppard

5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 - Ave verum corpus K.618 2.36

Schütz Choir & London Classical Players / Roger Norrington

6) Gioacchino Rossini 1792-1868 - Stabat Mater : Inflammatus et accensus 4.34

Barbara Hendricks soprano / Swedish Radio Choir - Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Eric Ericson

7) Charles Gounod 1818-1893 - Messe solennelle de Sainte Cécile : Sanctus 5.29

Laurence Dale tenor / Chœurs de Radio France & Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Georges Prêtre

8) Francis Poulenc 1899-1963 - Stabat Mater: Laudamus te 3.08

Catherine Dubosc soprano / Westminster Singers – City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox

9) Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901 - Ave Maria (excerpt from the Four Sacred Pieces) 5.54

Swedish Radio Choir / Riccardo Muti

10) Johann-Sebastian Bach 1685-175010 - St John Passion BWV 245: Es ist vollbracht 5.51

Stephanie Blythe alto – Jérôme Hantaï viola da gamba

Ensemble Orchestral de Paris / John Nelson

11) Johann-Sebastian Bach 1685-175010 - St John Passion BWV 245: Chœur final: Ruht wohl, ihr heilige Gebeine 8.02

Taverner Consort & Players / Andrew Parrott

12) Georg Friedrich Handel 1685-1759 - Zadok the Priest 6.07

King’s College Choir, Cambridge – English Chamber Orchestra / Philip Ledger

13) Johannes Brahms 1833-1897 - A German Requiem: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen 4.42

Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental de Lausanne / Michel Corboz

14) Serge Rachmaninov 1873-1943 - Ave Maria 2.39

Swedish Radio Choir / Tonu Kaljuste

15) Arvo Pärt b.1935 - Magnificat 7.29

Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill

16) Maurice Duruflé 1902-1986 - Notre Père, pour chœur mixte a cappella Op.14 1.37

Orfeon Donostiarra / Michel Plasson

Stephanie Blythe, Barbara Bonney, Ileana Cotrubas, Véronique Gens, Barbara Hendricks, Gérard Lesne & Michel Corboz

Philip Ledger, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Raymond Leppard, Riccardo Muti, John Nelson, Roger Norrington, Andrew Parrott, Michel Plasson, Wolfgang Sawallisch & David Willcocks.

From Allegri’s Miserer to Barber’s Agnus Dei, this new compilation offers, on 2 CDs for the price of 1, a thorough insight into the great sacred works.

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Lamenti

Carissimi:	Lamento della Maria Stuarda Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Cavalli:	Hipparco, e di Climene, Lamento d’Egisto Rolando Villazón (tenor) Acate, Ilioneo, Lamento di Enea Topi Lehtipuu (tenor) Alle ruine del mio regno, Lamento d’Ecuba e Cassandra Marie-Nicole Lemieux (alto) & Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Cesti:	Dure noie, Lamento d’Atamante Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone)
Landi:	Superbe colli Christopher Purves (baritone)
Monteverdi:	Lamento della ninfa Natalie Dessay (soprano), Simon Wall (tenor), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor) & Christopher Purves (baritone) Lamento d'Arianna Véronique Gens (soprano) Addio Roma Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) Tu se’ morta mia vita, Lamento d’Orfeo Rolando Villazón (tenor)
Strozzi:	L'Eraclito amoroso 'Udite amanti' Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

Le Concert Astrée, Emmanuelle Haim

Emmanuelle Haim follows her 2006 recording of Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with an unusual and inventive programme on the theme of the Lamento, the literary and dramatic form that found its seventeenth-century musical archetype in Monteverdi’s celebrated Lamento d’Arianna.

Emmanuelle Haim has taken great care in choosing 9 soloists to perform these demanding works amongst which Véronique Gens sings the Lamento d’Arianna, the tantalising fragment from Monteverdi’s lost opera of 1608; Natalie Dessay is the abandoned nymph in the very different Lamento della ninfa from the Eighth Book of Madrigals. Alongside these familiar works by Monteverdi the programme includes Philippe Jaroussky in Barbara Strozzi’s dramatic monologue L’Eraclito amoroso, probably written for Strozzi herself, Carissimi’s Lamento di Maria Stuarda (with Patrizia Ciofi) and Strozzi’s teacher Cavalli’s Lamento d’Egisto (with Rolando Villazón, who also sings Orfeo’s Lamento). Joyce DiDonato, recently signed to EMI/Virgin Classics as an exclusive artist, adds Ottavia’s heartrending farewell to Rome from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.

“Haim is pure dynamite” Daily Telegraph

“Haim’s meteoric rise has been well charted by the press. It’s easy to understand the excitement - her enthusiasm is infectious, her conducting demeanour distinctive, and her knowledge intense.” Gramophone Magazine

“Waif-like, driven, messianic or explosive, non-conformist, unruly, either way, the conductor Emmanuelle Haim has enough charisma to draw crowds in her wake. Haim is the most dynamic force to have hit the period movement since the 1970s. She’s a born leader” Financial Times

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Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne, Volume 2

Canteloube:

Songs of the Auvergne (selection)

La Pastrouletta è lou chibalie; Lo Fiolairé; Pour l’enfant; Chut, chut; Pastorale; Obal, din lo coumbèlo; Postouro, sé tu m’aymo & Tè, l’co tè; Hé! Beyla-z-y dau fé!

Triptyque

Chants de France (Selection)

Auprès de ma blonde; Où irai-je me plaindre?; Au prè de la rose; Délicieuses cimes; Réveillez-vous! & D’où venez-vous fillette

Véronique Gens (soprano)

Orchestre National de Lille, Serge Baudo

“In her second volume, including 'Chut, Chut' and 'Lo Fiolairé', Véronique Gens does more than confirm her credentials. The voice is bright, forward, notably clear in diction and lightly responsive to nuance, backed by prominent woodwind and lean strings.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2007 ****

Gramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - December 2007

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Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196

Directed by: Doris Dörrie

John Graham Hall, Alexandra Reinprecht, John Mark Ainsley, Véronique Gens, Ruxandra Donose, Adriana Kucerova & Markus Werba

Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Ivor Bolton

From the Salzburger Landestheater, Salzburg Festival 2006

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DG Mozart 22 Unitel - 0734222

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Handel - Cantatas

Handel:

La Lucrezia (highlights)

Armida abbandonata (highlights)

Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110 (highlights)

Véronique Gens (soprano)

Les Basses réunies

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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 (highlights)

Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Carmela Remigio, Véronique Gens, Lisa Larsson, Mark Padmore, Till Fechner, Gudjon Oskarsson, Jory Vinikour (harpsichord) & Ophélie Gaillard (cello continuo)

Solistes de l’Académie Européenne de Musique d’Aix-en-Provence & Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding

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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Wojtek Drabowicz, Kwanchul Youn, Regina Schörg, Véronique Gens, Marcel Reijans, Anatoly Kocherga

Orchestra Academy of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana, Bertrand de Billy, stage direction by Calixto Bieito

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Opus Arte - OA0921D

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Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (selection)

Véronique Gens (soprano)

Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Claude Casadesus

“[Véronique Gens’] singing is smooth and delicate, with plenty of body in the tone for some of the earthier movements…and the Lille Orchestra bring out all the little details in the score…This will no doubt become the interpretation for the present decade. It deserves to be a success, and then maybe the same forces will let us hear some of Canteloube’s enormous body of other songs.” Gramophone

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