François Couperin: Apothéoses Ricercar Consort & Philippe Pierlot

• 1 I. Corelli au piéd du Parnasse prie les Muses de le Recevoir parmi elles 02:36
• 2 II. Corelli charmé de la bonne réception qu ́on lui fait au Parnasse, en marque Sa joye. Il continuë avec ceux qui L ́accompagnent 02:25
• 3 III. Corelli buvant à la Source D ́hypocrêne. Sa Troupe Continuë 02:28
• 4 IV. Enthouziasme de Corelli Causé par les eaux D ́hypocrêne 01:17
• 5 V. Corelli aprés son enthouziasme S'endort; et sa Troupe joue le Sommeil suivant.flac 03:20
• 6 VI. Les Muses reveillent Corelli, et le placent auprês d ́Apollon 00:53
• 7 VII. Remerciment de Corelli 02:38
• 8 I. Gravement 02:59
• 9 II. Gay 02:14
• 10 III. Recit 02:53
• 11 IV. Recit 03:40
• 12 V. Les Regrets. Grave 03:35
• 13 I. Lulli aux Champs Elisés - Concertant avec les Ombres liriques 02:19
• 14 II. Air pour les mêmes 02:36
• 15 III. Vol de Mercure aux Champs Elisés, pour avertir qu'Apollon y va descendre 00:36
• 16 IV. Descente d ́Apollon - qui vient offrir son violon à Lulli - et sa place au Parnasse 03:06
• 17 V. Rumeur Souteraine - Causée par les Auteurs Contemporains de Lulli 00:37
• 18 VI. Plaintes des Mêmes pour des Flûtes ou pour des Violons tres adoucis 03:32
• 19 VII. Enlévement de Lulli au Parnasse 01:07
• 20 VIII. Accueil entre-Doux, et Agard, fait à Lulli par Corelli et par les Muses italiénes 02:58
• 21 IX. Remerciment de Lulli - á Apollon 03:06
• 22 X. Apollon, persuade Lulli, et Corelli Que la réünion des Goûts François et Italien doit faire la perfection de la Musique. Essai en forme d ́Ouverture 02:52
• 23 XI. Lulli, jouant le sujet - et Corelli l'acompagnant 00:51
• 24 XII. Corelli, jouant le sujet à son tour, que Lulli acompagne 01:49
• 25 XIII. Corelli, jouant le sujet - et Lulli l'acompagnant 00:53
• 26 XIV. Lulli, jouant le sujet à son tour, que Corelli acompagne 02:05
• 27 I. Gravement 02:17
• 28 II. Saillie Vivement 01:37
• 29 III. Rondement 01:38
• 30 IV. Vivement 01:48
• Total Runtime 01:06:45

Info for François Couperin: Apothéoses

Philippe Pierlot and his superb Ricercar Consort present tributes to both Corelli and Lully with the two Apothéoses by François Couperin, written in the memory of Arcangelo Corelli and Jean-Baptiste Lully respectively. Behind them is an aesthetic programme: they are a plea for the mixture of the Italian and the French style, the so-called goûts réunis.

Marc Hantaï, transverse flute
Georges Barthel, transverse flute
François Fernandez, violin
Sophie Gent, violin
Philippe Pierlot, viola da gamba
Eduardo Egüez, theorbo, guitar
François Guerrier, harpsichord

Philippe Pierlot
was born in Liège. After teaching himself the guitar and the lute, he turned to the viola da gamba, which he studied with Wieland Kuijken. He is active in the fields of chamber music, oratorio, and opera, and divides his activities between viola da gamba and conducting. He has edited and revived a number of operas, including Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse (given at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Lincoln Center in New York, the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, the Melbourne Festival and La Fenice in Venice, among other venues) and the Sémélé of Marin Marais, as well as Bach’s St Mark Passion. With his ensemble Ricercar Consort he records for the French label Mirare. His most recent CDs have been devoted to Purcell’s Fantazias for viols, Bach cantatas, and music for viol by Couperin. Philippe Pierlot is a professor at the Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.

Ricercar Consort
In 1985 the Ricercar Consort made its first concert tour with Bach’s Musical Offering. The ensemble soon acquired an international reputation, notably in the domain of German Baroque cantatas and instrumental music. It gave many concerts with such singers as Henri Ledroit, Max van Egmond and James Bowman and recorded some fifty discs, among them the complete works of little-known composers like Nikolaus Bruhns and Matthias Weckmann. Today the ensemble is directed by Philippe Pierlot. Alongside large-scale productions such as, in recent years, operas by Provenzale (La Stellidaura), Monteverdi (Il ritorno d’Ulisse) and Telemann (Don Quichotte) and sacred works including Bach’s Passions and cantatas, Handel cantatas and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, it also performs chamber repertoire focusing essentially on music for consort of viols. In 2006 Les Folles Journées of Nantes, Lisbon and Bilbao invited the Ricercar Consort to perform Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. The ensemble then accompanied the soprano Céline Scheen to Tokyo to perform Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, and gave a Marin Marais programme at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. It returned to the same venue in 2007 to perform motets by Dumont and Charpentier with Collegium Vocale Gent. After appearing at the Brussels Bach Académie 2007 in cantatas by Bruhns, the group went on to record a second volume of early Bach cantatas. Its disc of Bach’s Magnificat and Mass in G minor, released in the autumn of 2009, won the prestigious prize of the Académie Charles Cros the following year.

The Ricercar Consort receives support from the Communauté Française de Belgique. It performs at leading festivals such as Boston, Edinburgh, Utrecht, and Tokyo and Warsaw (Handel opera arias). It recently gave the St John Passion at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris.

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