Credits:

Classical V.A.

Description:

[Two Orphe stories from Lullys greatest rival, straight from the forefront of the French-speaking early music scene]A Nocte Temporis, the ensemble led by early music singer Reinout van Mehelen, continues to actively promote 17th- and 18th-century French music to the world through recordings on the Alpha label. Meanwhile, the early music vocal ensemble Vox Luminiscentered around accomplished early music singers from France, Belgium, and Germanyhas presented a wide-ranging repertoire, from the Three Great Ss of Germany (Schtz, Schein, and Scheidt) to Handel, in a small-scale ensemble format with just two or three singers per part. These two brilliant ensembles, at the forefront of early music research and live performance in Europe, have joined forces to record a rich album that takes on head-on two masterpieces by Charpentier, one of the greatest composers of the French Baroque.While Lully flo