Rameau: Castor & Pollux (1737): Tristes apprêts, pâles flambeaux

[ThomasRink]

Toll, mit ZWIE Fagotten (wie ursprünglich verlangt, aber aus intonationstechnischen Gründen meist nicht besetzt) gespielt. Kozena schön, aber mit zuviel Druck und an falschen Stellen atmend .... Leider nicht auf YOUTUBE: Jeanette Scovotti mit CONCENTUS aus Stockholm.... ganz große Oper, auch mit vielleicht zu viel Vibrato....aber soooooooooo innig!!!

[lispectorando]

LOOK! The conductor looks at the violas!

[lispectorando]

all these concert videos with rameau's portrait at the back... they're just GREAT!

[OrganoAeternam]

Where can I get this DVD?

[cuculus50]

It's driving me crazy . . . who's the dude waving the stick?

[19Edurne]

@cuculus50

If you mean the conductor, it's Marc Minkowski.

[hummingbirdgirl07]

@cuculus50 I don't know but that's the maestro

[5434decarie]

Une belle voix très expressive et mordante. Bravo !

[orlandomonjoie]

She evokes such power in her grief.......... it makes you hold the one you love a little closer.

[hummingbirdgirl07]

I almost cried

[PiroozAzDirooz]

Super Magnifique!

[palfab962]

wonderful, i just love the best bits of rameau and lully, excellent !

[MsDovima]

i can't forget Agnès Mellon. She was so subtle, so emotional in this air...

[Pugwash81]

I've heard better versions, but I cannot sing as good as her anyway!

[jarabass11]

@Pugwash81 Can you recommend me? I'm staring to get keen into Rameau, so any recomendation of a better version and the reasons why (of course) would be great! Thanks

[cbrusharmy]

One word: breathtaking

[bvisionven]

In Rameau's Castor and Pollux, the character sings this song freshly horrified by the sight of her battle slain lover dragged before her. Kozena, without the operatic staging and set, still catches the tragic mood of the scene.  The Marie Antoinette soundtrack version sounds as if the singer thought the character was singing in a hall filled with cakes.

[Modoantiquo]

The same old story: the instrumentalists play in a good French style, when the famously and overpaid Kozena sings without to know even what is a trill. But the blame is solely and exclusively of conductors, who do not correct the singers and always regard them as stars.

[KarlAmade]

@moochomoo

Yes, this is a typical sight.... beautifully informed orchestras without informed singers..... Well ...

[jfbecks17]

@KarlAmade

Not quite as typical as singers working months and months to perfect something, and then the orchestra messing it up every performance because they were too lazy to practice it. 

[jfbecks17]

@moochomoo

She doesn't need to control anything, her voice is fine. And her diction is fine too. If maestro Minkowski liked it, it should be good enough for you.

[DieFlabbergast]

@jfbecks17 Hear hear! Couldn't have said it better myself. Some people need ear transplants. Magdalena is not always in top form, but she is here.

[DieFlabbergast]

@jfbecks17 Hear hear! Couldn't have said it better myself. Some people need ear transplants. Magdalena is not always in top form, but she is here.

[MrSev93]

oh my god, she is too tune! on marie antoinette soundtrack this fantastic song is completely different.

[happymaniquin]

most pretty somg ever!

[todddutton]

I would love to have a copy of this to save on my computer. Would you mind sending me the file?

[lauritamanza]

check on marie antoinette soundtrack (sofia coppola film) in the second cd is this song. i fell in love with it when I saw the movie...