Ouverture - Alceste - Jean Baptiste Lully

[bailharico]

Beautiful!

[bailharico]

Beautifull!!!!

[bailharico]

Beutifull!!!!

[LARUSSALVAT]

This is a great performance. I can feel the intensity in each part of this beautiful overture. Sublime!

Thanks a lot for sharing this gem with us!

[23brookside]

I just listened to Keith Richards describe in ecstatic terms the whole sound of Johnny B. Goode the 1st time he heard it. How can you really talk about music, its structure and its connections to emotions & to the world? What a wonderful invention and tool to us it is. It is itself, wonderful.

[PhilosophicalViking]

A most enchanting musical experience. Thank you for posting.

[herrapikkarainen]

Some people snub all things Baroque as simplistic and lacking in innovation but I feel that these people miss the point entirely. Because it is precisely the absence of all the modern cleverness to which we are accustomed that is so fascinating about the Baroque sensibility. It is precisely the dependence on tradition and established forms which allowed the extraordinary unity and harmony in the artistic life of the period.

[XXMPZEC]

An orgasm of eternal bliss listening to this overture. Lully was surely blessed!

[mannueldevalencia]

magnifico, muy bueno, trés bon

[mannueldevalencia]

precioso! muy bueno, trés bon

[suidorimo]

Lovely ouverture! Lully is better on period instruments, but it is worth listening to an early (?) recording.

[ShakespeareHamlet]

beautiful.

[charlesbonares]

Is it the first Malgoire's record of this opera (1973)?

[MaBu888]

For some reason I only like choral parts and overtures, when it comes to operas. Solos are too... too I don't know what... :)

[lalungenuictdestens]

Yep! I agree! Well played instruments make me go to Heavens... but when the singers appear... I fall again on the ground (and sometimes... directly to Hell! :S)

[AlainNaigeon]

There are some beautiful airs in this opera!

For instance this duo :

- "Alceste, vous pleurez" (Alceste, you are crying)

-" Admète, vous mourrez" (Admète, you are dying)

[Sundialonthejob]

It's taken me awhile to appreciate opera. I have a DVD of Persee that is wonderful.

[tomamans]

For me it just depends on the solo.

[mamp71]

@MaBu888 I feel exactly the same way....most of the time the best parts are the overtures and the choruses and sporadically some of the arias...and I am talking not only about Lully or Charpentier but also about Vivaldi, Handel and Bach.

[gfhandel]

Lully, father of the French Overture!

[AlainNaigeon]

OMG it was so fun to play it in summer course, in 2007. But we played it slowlier, LOL, and the pitch was not perfect LOL (I was in the recorder players during the fast section).

I might like to smile by listening to it on my YT page.

[operaman20]

Great French Overture! The Dotted rhythms really bring out the Grandioso!!

[operaman20]

Yep I love this overture!!! JUST GREAT!! If I got married this needs to be what my wife comes down the isle too! :) she doesn't know that yet lol

[frphilipmullen]

Vive le Huguenots!

[jeanbaptistlully]

Absolutely heavenly!!!

[AdrianFortescue]

Great! Where you get this?! o_O i love it :P

[lalungenuictdestens]

Do you want it? :) send me your e-mail address on a private message.

[JuandrezBog08]

Alucinante!

Me parece que he escuchado a Lully por vez primera!

[8Vasken]

This ouverture is fantastic!!! Thanks for posting

[lalungenuictdestens]

Thank you for watching! :)

[Lulliste]

Quel est le groupe qui joue ?

What is the band playing ?

[lalungenuictdestens]

Mon dieu! :O Je ne sais pas! mais il est du disque: "The Development of Western Music - An Anthology (Volume 1 - 3rd Edition - Disc 4)".

[GerardRatigan]

La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, dir. JC Malgoire, I guess

[lalungenuictdestens]

Thank you very much! Merci beaucoup! ;)

[GerardRatigan]

La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy - JC Malgoire