Baroque CD

Reines

Véronique Gens · Ensemble Les Surprises · Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Reines
Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, André Campra, Jean-Philippe Rameau
Performers Véronique Gens · Ensemble Les Surprises
Conductor Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Label Alpha Classics
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A recital programme around the queens of the French baroque stage — Armide, Médée, Phèdre, Iphigénie — drawn from Lully, Charpentier, Campra and Rameau. Bestion's third Alpha disc with Les Surprises after the 2024 Charpentier and the Versailles Te Deum.

A French-baroque recital built around the tragic queens of the Lullian stage. Gens is now the senior French baroque soprano — these arias have been touring her recitals for a decade, but this is the first studio account with Bestion at the helm.