Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon, Le Berger fidèle (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 56:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 449 211-2 | Recorded: 1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 56:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 449 211-2 | Recorded: 1995
There are two different short operas (from 1754 and 1757) by Rameau with the title Anacréon. Both are one-act actes de ballet; this one was actually used as the third entrée of Rameau's opéra-ballet Les surprises de l'Amour when it was revived the same year. Both works have as their subject the Greek poet, Anacreon. The 1757 one - which was first performed at the Paris Opéra in May of that year and has a libretto by Pierre-Joseph Justin Bernard - has an only marginally less slight ‘plot’ than the earlier Anacréon. It follows an argument as to the relative merits of love and wine. That’s resolved in Anacreon’s favour by L’Amour; in fact, he believes the two are not incompatible.