Rameau: Anacréon, le berger fidèle_音乐专辑
Rameau: Anacréon, le berger fidèle
表演者: Veronique Gens/Annick Massis/Marc Minkowski
发行时间: 2009-03-12
出版者: Brilliant Classics
条形码: 5028421939308
专辑简介
Although Rameau’s creative career spanned six decades, he only turned to opera late in life. His dramatic output all dates from the last 30 years of his life; quite remarkably so, for as he commented: ‘I have attended the theatre since I was 12, yet I first worked for the Paris Opera when I was 50, and even then did not think myself capable.’
He wrote two scores titled Anacréon – the first has never been published, and the second (on this recording) dates from 1757. Published as an ‘Acte de ballet’, a blend of extended dance sequences and arias and vocal ensemble pieces it was also used as an introduction to Les Surprises de l’Amour when it was revived in Paris.
The story centres on a debate between the Maenads (priestesses of Bacchus) and Anacreon on whether drink and love are compatible. The priestesses not surprisingly claim they are, Anacreon, the 5th-century poet, disagrees.
