Les fêtes de Paphos
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1756 - 1791)
© 1997 The Decca Record Company Limited, London
Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre
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“An eighteenth-century French music lover would surely be surprised at the scant attention paid to Mondonville in our century. Here was a man who held some of the most prestigious musical appointments in France, a man who, in his heyday, was considered Rameau’s near equal as an opera composer and very much his superior in the realm of the motet. As Pierre-Louis Daquin, son of the composer Louis-Claude Daquin, observed : “If I were not Rameau, there is no one I would rather be than Mondonville.” (…)”
Graham Sadler
Distribution
- Christophe Rousset, Direction
- Sandrine Piau (soprano), Aglaé, Érigone, L'Amour
- Véronique Gens (soprano), Vénus
- Agnès Mellon (soprano), Psyché
- Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Adonis, Mercure
- Olivier Lallouette (baritone), Mars, Bacchus
- Peter Harvey (baritone), Comus, Tisiphone
- James Oxley (tenor), Une voix
- Choeur de Chambre Accentus
- Les Talens Lyriques
3 CDs Decca / LC0254
Recorded in June 1996 at the église luthérienne de Bon Secours, Paris
Released in 1997
With the generous support of the Fondation France Télécom