Talens Lyriques is together a of instrumental music and vocal French

History

Created in 1991 by Christophe Rousset, his name was selected in reference to the subtitle of a opera of Rameau - the Festivals of Hébé (1739).

The creation of Talens Lyriques represents the result of a passion for the lyric art. Harpsichordist, Christophe Rousset insisted already on the need “for treating the instrument like the voice”. In addition, the scenic approach is for him indissociable of musical interpretation, which it could express by its collaborations with directors such as Jean-Marie Villégier, Philippe Lénaël, Jean-Claude Berutti, Pierre Audi, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Lindsay Kemp, Marco Arturo Marelli and Eric Vigner.

The attention paid to the opera is parallel to the exploration of others musical forms French of the same time: the Motet (Dumont, Daniélis), the Madrigal (Madrigaux of VIIIe Delivers) the Cantate (Clérambault, Brossard, Montéclair) and airs of French court (Dumont, Lambert, of the Bar). To give again life with these works, Christophe Rousset surrounds by Chanteur S and instrumentalists pertaining for the majority to the “young generation of the baroque”. Regular collaboration with these interpreters is also the occasion of a necessary work on the style specific to the musics, crowned or profane, of this period. It is thus a whole side of the French musical inheritance and Italian whom Christophe Rousset endeavors to illustrate with his whole along this axis Paris - Naples, which crossed all the 18th European century.

Talens Lyriques were in residence with Montpellier until the end 2005. They were then supported by the Community of Agglomeration of Montpellier, and the Regional management of the Cultural Affairs of Languedoc-Roussillon - Ministry for the Culture and the Communication.

The unit is founding member of the FEVIS (Federation of the Vocal ensembles and Instrumental Specialized).

Talens Lyriques obtained the Victoire of the classical music in 2001.

Repertory

The repertory of Talens Lyriques extends from Monteverdi ( the Crowning of Poppée ) to Haendel ( Scipione , Riccardo Primo , Rinaldo , Admeto , Giulio Cesare , Serse , Tamerlano , Alcina ) while passing by Lully ( Persée , Roland ), Cimarosa ( It Mercato di Malmantile , It Matrimonio Segreto ), Traetta ( Antigona , Ippolito ED Aricia ), Jommelli ( Armida abbandonata ), Martin there Soler ( Capricciosa Corretta ) and Mozart ( Mitridate, Re di Ponto ).

Discography

Talens Lyriques, which already engraved for Érato, Fnac Music and Auvidis, record for the label Decca (Universal Music), Ambroisie and Naïve. They carried out the band its film Farinelli it Castrato (1994).

External bonds

• Site of Talens Lyric
• Lyric Friends of Talens
• Christophe Rousset

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