With 'Les Indes Galantes' by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Gyrgy Vashegyi - along with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir - makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of French dramatic masterpieces from the Baroque. They are in the company of a luxurious line-up of vocal soloists. The version of this ballet heroque - supplied with an anti-colonial, anti-clerical manifesto by librettist Louis Fuzelier - selected by Vashegyi is the 1761 revision. A mere decade or so before the irruption onto the Parisian musical scene of the likes of Gluck and Grtry. Rameau's score had undergone frequent adjustments and improvements since its premire a quarter of a century earlier. The performing edition for this recording, prepared by Sylvie Bouissou (who also provides a booklet essay here), offers a vision of this work which is more theatrical, fluid and concise than hitherto.
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