Castor Et Pollux - March

castor et pollux - 1754 version
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castor-colin ainsworth
pollux-joshua hopkins
télaire-monica whicher
jupiter-giles tomkins
etc.
conductor-kevin mallon
aradia ensemble
... (meer info)

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• pollux-joshua
• hopkins
• télaire-monica
• whicher
• jupiter-giles
• tomkins
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• aradia
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[frenchiecocorico1]

(Acte II Scène IV) (POLLUX, aux Peuples) Peuples, cessez de soupirer ! Non, ce n'est plus des pleurs que ces mânes demandent ; C'est du sang qu'ils attendent, Et ce sang fatal a coulé.: Lincée est immolé. (TOUS LES CHŒURS) Que l'enfer applaudisse A ces nouveaux concerts. Qu'une ombre plaintive en jouisse. Le cri de la vengeance est le chant des Enfers.

[otacs2]

@frenchiecocorico1 This is the 1754 version, but there were made different revivals.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@otacs2 I've just read the french historian criticisms about Antonia Fraser book and Sophia Coppola inspired movie: "disneyfication. Does Marie Antoinette merit this great considerations"?"

"Disneyfication" means a fairy tale like Wald Disney have done in his cartoons.

[otacs2]

@frenchiecocorico1 Antonia Fraser did a good job researching Marie Antoinette's live. Whoever have said that she wrote down a Disneyfication is wrong. The whole opera is performed to the court in 1770 and 1792. read something about their flight or about their wedding. This piece of music is supreme, it deserves more respect.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@otacs2 Oh I agree with you this piece is wonderful and deserves respect. However it has not a real relationship with Marie Antoinette but with Rameau and the greek myth of the two dioscures Castor and Pollux. Many pictures could have been found to illustrate this.

[otacs2]

@frenchiecocorico1 Yes, indeed. I'm aware of the story of the works of Rameau, but in 2009 this music was making me and many others think about the 18th century in France so I illustrate them with what people want and clearly can recognize them on youtube, so a portrait of marie-Antoinette or a picture of Versailles. people can make a decision about what music video they are going to watch in just 0.5 seconds, beside of that I'm not making any profit of this. I just want to offer you this music.

[jmtappenden]

Fabulous & brilliant.Thanks.

[pligana]

this is really nice! 5*****!

[frenchiecocorico1]

@otacs2 I can't for instance give a valid opinion on Antonia Fraser book until I could read it. However, It seems she described Marie Antoinette as a fair and lovely person, innocent of any responsability in the revolution occurence and all in all a victim.

Though french historians prefer english Evelyne Lever book for its objectivity toward Marie Antoinette describing a contrasting portrait with her skills, her faults and her responsabilities in french historical events of this time.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@otacs2 Yes this is the second version and the original was composed in 1737. Some revivals occured in 1764, 1765, 1772, 1778, 1779, 1780 and 1792. But no trace of any revival in 1770.

[otacs2]

@frenchiecocorico1 You can read any book about Marie Antoinette or about Rameau's works and see that she actually has been to a performance of Castor et Pollux. I'm not going to tell or explain this to you again, because it's a fact, it may not be the most important fact but it is a true thing. As I said, history is all about perception.