MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER/ Michel Corboz/ English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra/ Mâitrise de l'Opéra de Lyon. Enfants de la Cigale de Lyon et du Lycée Musical/ René Jacobs/
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David et Jonathas
DAVID ET JONATHAS
David et Jonathas

MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER

Michel Corboz

English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra , Mâitrise de l'Opéra de Lyon. Enfants de la Cigale de Lyon et du Lycée Musical

René Jacobs, Paul Esswood

Erato 2292-45162-2
1981 - : min.
This recording was made following the first performances for three centuries of this "tragedy set to music" for the Jesuits, at the Lyon Opera, in a staging by Jean-Louis Martinoty in 1981. Michel Corboz, long familiar with Charpentier's religious music, approaches David et Jonathas as an opera (which it is), without losing sight of its sacred dimension. This is the first time Corboz performed Charpentier with period instruments, and he draws oustanding playing from the English Bach Festival Orchestra on top form. The soloists give an absolutely superb dramatic rendition, supported by choruses using children's voices (as at the college Louis-le-Grand where the work was first performed in 1688) of tremendous freshness. Corboz's masterly direction pays attention to the silences and accelerations which immobilize and propel the drama by turns, passing from rejoicing to lamentation with a rare effectiveness. The recording has an extra ace up its sleeve: the sumptuous packaging with photographs of the Lyon staging, penetrating texts by Jean Duron (who edited and completed the score) and Jean-Louis Martinoty, and a booklet containing extracts from Bossuet's Politique tirée de l'Écriture.

Mention should be made of the other complete recording of David et Jonathas (Harmonia Mundi) by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie. With colourful playing, perfect roundness and fullness of sound, excellent soloists and choir, this version is incontestably a success. Each listener will decide for himself according to his taste which of these versions touches him the more. CATHERINE CESSAC

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