RAMEAU Les Boréades 2cd

Started in 2014 as part of the anniversary of the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau with the recording of the Fêtes de Polymnie, the partnership between the Baroque Music Center of Versailles and the ensembles of Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir, ends with the recording of another opera by Rameau, Les Boréades, in which the talented Sabine Devieilhe and Reinoud Van Mechelen take part. The composer’s final work, created posthumously at the end of the 20th century, Les Boréades represents one of the peaks of French lyric tragedy of the 17th and 18th centuries. Thanks to the work of musicologist Sylvie Bouissou, the CMBV refines the interpretation of the work by questioning the context and practices of the time, to make the score heard differently and offer a new vision, supported by the curiosity of György Vashegyi who has been supporting and applying the institution’s research for ten years.