Artist: Stéphane Degout, Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Album: Enfers
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:18:27
Total Tracks: 23
Total Size: 1,47 GB

Tracklist:

01. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Zoroastre, RCT 62, Act IV, Scene 6: Ah ! Nos fureurs ne sont point vaines (La Vengeance) (00:50)
02. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Les Élémens: Chaos (06:02)
03. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Dardanus, RCT 35, Act IV, Scene 4: Voici les tristes lieux. Montre affreux (Anténor) (03:51)
04. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux: Requiem æternam (03:06)
05. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Iphigénie en Tauride, Wq. 46, Act II, Scenes 3 & 4: Dieux ! Protecteurs de ces affreux rivages (Oreste) (05:59)
06. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux: Kyrie eleison (02:50)
07. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Stéphane Degout, Mathias Vidal, Thomas Dolié and Nicolas Courjal – Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43, Act II, Scene 4: Dieux ! Que d’infortunés gémissent en ces lieux ! (Thésée) (06:23)
08. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Les Surprises de l’amour, RCT 58, Act II, Scene 8: Loure (02:07)
09. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Stéphane Degout and Stanislas Barbeyrac – Armide, Wq. 45, Act IV, Scene 1: Nous ne trouvons partout que des gouffres ouverts (Ubalde et le Chevalier danois) (02:43)
10. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux: Domine Jesu Christe (03:57)
11. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 30, Act II, Scene 1: Sinfonie infernale. Air de furie (01:50)
12. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Stéphane Degout and Emmanuelle Negri – Zoroastre, RCT 62, Act IV, Scenes 5 & 6: Épuisons le flanc des tristes victimes (Abramane)-Ministres, redoutés du plus puissant empire (Abramane, Érinice) (02:09)
13. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Zoroastre, RCT 62, Act IV, Scene 5: Air grave pour les Esprits infernaux (01:28)
14. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Zoroastre, RCT 62, Act IV, Scene 6: Quel bonheur ! L’Enfer nous seconde (Abramane, Les Furies, choir) (01:19)
15. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 30, Act II: Danse des Furies (03:57)
16. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Stéphane Degout, Mathias Vidal, Thomas Dolié and Nicolas Courjal – Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43, Act II, Scene 5: Vous, qui de l’avenir percez la nuit profonde (Pluton)-Quelle soudaine horreur (Trois Parques) (04:01)
17. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43, Act III, Scene 6: Qu’ai-je appris ? Puissant maître des flots (Thésée) (05:06)
18. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Reinoud Van Mechelen – Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux: Hostias et preces tibi (02:56)
19. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stanislas Barbeyrac – Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43, Act IV, Scene 4: Quelle plainte en ces lieux m’appelle ? (Phèdre) (04:14)
20. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43, Act V, Scene 2: Je ne te verrai plus ! (Thésée) (01:37)
21. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 30, Act II, Scene 2: Ballet des Ombres heureuses (03:04)
22. Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon and Stéphane Degout – Messe de Requiem sur des thèmes de Castor et Pollux: Requiem æternam (03:16)
23. Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon – Les Boréades, RCT 31, Act IV, Scene 4: Entrée de Polymnie (05:32)

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With his ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon has written the listing for this album in the form of a “pastiche” of a Mass for the Dead, a Requiem both sacred and profane. While it is a long way from having all the defining traits, it does possess all the outlines: Introit, Kyrie, Gradual, Sequence, Offertory, In Paradisum… The idea came about after a recent discovery, in the Bibliothèque Nationale of an anonymous requiem mass from the 18th century, in which the writer constructed a “parody” based on musical extracts from Castor and Pollux and the Fêtes de Paphos by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Note that the term “parody” doesn’t necessarily imply satire or mockery: it refers to the practice of taking up older music and setting new words to it. This fusion of sacred music (the mass) and profane music (lyrical tragedy), a common practice during the Enlightenment, was a procedure that Pichon wanted to take up.In French society at the time, when Catholicism was the norm, where the political system was monarchical rule by divine right, the representation of ancient pagan Hell on theatrical stages seemed to betray a fascination in the beliefs of the ancients. And so this programme melds together pagan fable with a Christian imaginary, where Hell takes on different faces. It is the place of unjust and eternal torment, a place of privation where a couple is separated, one half kept in Hades. But, in the lyrical tragedy, Hell is also a place of perdition: obscure forces unleashed in Sabbath rites, a Satanic vision which unearths the darkest depths of the human soul… Stéphane Degout is the author of this tragedy, bringing together such varied characters as Phaedra, Pluto, and the Parcae. The composers whose music is put to use are Rameau and Gluck, with a single borrowing from Rebel: it would have been a shame not to mention his singular Chaos (taken from Éléments), which starts with a dissonant chord containing the seven notes of the scale of D minor.