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Rameau - Les Paladins

Valentin Tournet, conductor

La Chapelle Harmonique

Sandrine Piau • Anne-Catherine Gillet • Mathias Vidal • Florian Sempey • Nahuel Di Pierro • Philippe Talbot

Rameau’s key forgotten comédie-lyrique is brought back to life: in 1760, at the age of 77, Les Paladins would
be his last work performed in public. Inspired by the triumph of his other comedy, Platée, Rameau adds
emphasis and excess, makes the orchestra gleam and the singers leap, with sharp turns in the comic tone
and magnificent sentimental passages. Set in the fantastical Middle Ages, here is a comedy of characters
brilliantly treated as caricatures: the beautiful Argie prisoner of the monstrous Orcan, the Paladin Atis
freeing his bride, the Fairy Manto unleashing demons and furies, and transfiguring the castle with a dance
of Pagodas and a Chinese entertainment! Valentin Tournet brings his magnificent soloists and the Chapelle
Harmonique to life in this latest Rameau jewel!

Recorded from 17 to 20 December 2020 at the Galerie des Batailles of the Château de Versailles

Sandrine Piau & Florian Sempey appear here with the kind authorisation of Alpha Classics.

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