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Desmarets & Campra: Iphigenie en Tauride

Desmarets & Campra: Iphigenie en Tauride

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Availability:In StockArtist:Campra / Desmarest / Dolie / HaslerGenre:Classical ArtistsRelease date:1/24/2025Original year:2025
Publisher:Alliance EntertainmentLabel:ALLPUPC:3701624511060Weight:0.35Discs:2Product ID:SCHR34X5JW
Nearly a century before Gluck, another opera called Iphigenie en Tauride - same plot, same protagonists - had immense success on the opera stage. This 'first' Iphigenie has rather a curious history. The opera was sketched out by composer Henri Desmarest around the year 1695, but he was then banished from France by Louis XIV for having married a young girl without her father's consent. The uncompleted score of Iphigenie was then entrusted to Andre Campra. The opera, since lost and forgotten, was rediscovered by Benoit Dratwicki, Director of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, who marvels at it's stylistic unity: 'Campra easily adopted Desmarest's style. He just added some virtuoso arias to the divertissements, as well as the tuneful choruses that were his speciality.' Iphigenie en Tauride had it's premiere on 6 May 1704, and was revived throughout Europe from 1711. Thanks to Herve Niquet, a top-flight team of singers, an orchestra well versed in French repertoire, and all their collaborative research into the practices and specific playing techniques of the early 18th century, Iphigenie sees the light of day once more.
Publisher:Alliance EntertainmentLabel:ALLPUPC:3701624511060Weight:0.35Discs:2Product ID:SCHR34X5JW
Publisher: Alliance Entertainment
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