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André Campra (1660-1744): L'Europe Galante, opéra-ballet (version 2,1697)
Scènes from: Prologue ou Première Entrée, La France, L'Espagne, L'Italië, La Turquie
Performed 27 August 2013, 8 p.m. in the Geertekerk, Utrecht, The Netherlands as part of the Festival of Early Music (Festival Oude Muziek) Utrecht
Broadcasted by Omroep MAX, The Netherlands 24 October 2013 in the program "Avondconcert" and 16 Septebmer 2014 in the program "Avondconcert"
00:00 Introduction in dutch language
Prologue ou Première Entrée
01:20 Ouverture 04:28 Venus 05:33 Premier air, pour les plaisirs 07:29 Minuets 09:04 Prélude pour la Discorde Venus 10:06 La Discorde 11:34 Venus 12:42 La Discorde 12:55 Venus 13:41 La Discorde 14:47 Venus 13:59 La Discorde 14:38 Venus 15:53 Louré pour les ris et les plaisirs 17:23 Canaries 18:14 Ouverture
Deuxième entrée: La France
20:39 Céphise 24:15 Marche 25:45 Un Berger 27:00 - Rigaudons et 29:01 Passepieds 30:41 Doris
34:12 Break
Troisième Entrée L'Espagne
35:58 Prélude 38:42 Dom Pedro (I guess both are one passacaglia) 43:28 Prélude à la Nuit 44:48 Dom Carlos 48:05 Premier Air, pour les Espagnols 49:35 Une Espagnole 52:40 Duet
Quatrième Entrée: L'Italie
53:54 Air pour les masques 54:30 Une Femme du bal 56:40 Air gay 57:20 Une femme du bal
Cinquième Entrée: La Turquie
1:00:30 Prélude 1:01:11 Zaide 1:05:29 Passacaille 1:08:48 La Discorde 1:10:04 Venus
Capriccio Stravagante
Hana Blaziková, Judith van Wanroij (soprano)
Reinoud Van Mechelen (haut-contre)
Lisandro Abadie (bass-bariton)
Lidewij van der Voort, David Wish, Joanna Huszcza, Louis Creac'h, Aira Maria Lehtipuu, Maite Larburu, Yannis Roger (dessus/haute-contredeviolon)
Sylvestre Vergez, Wendy Ruymen, Julien Leonard, Salome Gasselin (quinte de violon)
Josh Cheatham, Nick Milne, Antoine Ladrette, Nick Milne, Pablo Garrido Guihot, Benoit van den Bemden, (basse de violon)
Wim Maeseele (lute)
Julien Martin, Marine Sablonniere (recorder)
Jasu Moisio, Rodrigo Gutierrez (oboe)
Evolène Kiener (recorder bassoon)
Olivier Fortin (harpsichord)
Skip Sempé (harpsichord and conductor)
L'Europe Galante is an opéra-ballet composed of a Prologue and four entrées. The text is by Antoine Houdar de la Motte.
It was premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique on 24 October 1697, with Marin Marais directing. The historical circumstances linked
to the title concern the proclamation of the Treaty of Ryswick (1697), which had great implications for the France of Louis XIV, and gave hope
of a permanent reconciiiation between European powers.
The score was reprinted in 1724, by Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard. Stravagante has chosen this print as the basis for the
modern performing edition, prepared by Olivier Fortin.
Translations for the most part in French and Spanish: Marianne Lambregts
Translations for the most part in Italian: Huub van der Linden
Documentation from the program booklet. Type errors my scan equipment.
An arrangement of the complete L'Europe Galante for piano and voices (d
