Philippe Jaroussky: La voix des reves - Greatest Moments on Concerts [Blu-ray]

“LA VOIX DES RÊVES - Greatest Moments in Concert” (available on DVD & Blu Ray) features video footage from a number of occasions and venues – including items from a concert given among the crystal chandeliers of the splendid Galerie des Glaces in the palace of Versailles, and works by Handel and Vivaldi performed in another jewel of French Baroque architecture, the sumptuously decorated Chapelle de la Trinité in Lyon. Also included are exclusive interviews an array of fellow musicians: Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Emmanuelle Haïm, Christina Pluhar; Jérôme Ducros, Quatuor Ebène, Gautier Capuçon, Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Renaud Capuçon.

Jaroussky and his appeal were aptly summarised in a recent profile in the French magazine Balthazar: “Philippe Jaroussky alternates between opera and recitals, bringing his sensual, graceful voice and matinee idol looks, and this has made him a key star of classical music. But his recordings also reveal a skilled musicologist who has revived numerous forgotten artists like the castrato Carestini [and the composers] Johann Christian Bach and Caldara. Jaroussky simply glows. Anyone who has had the opportunity to meet him will find it hard to forget his enthusiastic conversation and his magnetic gaze.”

The singer made his passions clear in an interview with Crescendo magazine, revealing that “I don’t like being told I have the ‘voice of an angel’, because that would just mean that it sounds pretty and takes people out of themselves … I want to be able to evoke more human emotions too: sorrow, despair, jealousy.” Speaking to the leading French newspaper Le Monde, he went into more detail on his philosophy as a maturing singer: “Ten years into your career, you reach a certain level of purity in your approach. You are always set on improving – strengthening your high notes, your low notes, your projection or your expressivity – but you also accept what it means to be an artist.”

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1. Giustino: Vedrò con mio diletto
2. Orlando finto pazzo : Se in ogni guardo
3. Orlando furioso : Sol da te
4. Rinaldo : Venti, turbini
5. Giulio Cesare in Egitto : Son nata a lagrimar
6. Come, ye Sons of Art : Sound the trumpet
7. Alcina : Mi lusinga il dolca affetto
8. Ercole sul Termodonte : Sento con qual diletto
9. Alcina : Verdi prati
10. Ariodante : Scherza, infida
11. L'incoronazione di Poppea : Pur ti miro
12. L'incoronazione di Poppea : Adagiati, Poppea
13. L'Eraclito amoroso
14. Orlando furioso : Nel profondo cieco mondo
15. Nisi dominus : Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum
16. Aminta e Fillide : Se vago rio
17. Rodelinda : lo t'abbraccio
18. Polifemo : Alto Giove
19. L'Olimpiade : Lo seguitai felice
20. L'Orfeo : Lasciate Averno
21. Ciaccona di Paradiso e dell'Inferno
22. Ohimè ch'io cado
23. Los pájaros perdidos
24. À Chloris
25. Sur une tombe
26. Le lion est mort ce soir
27. Rinaldo : Lascia ch'io pianga
28. Élégie
29. Prelude for two violins and piano
30. L'incoronazione di Poppea : Sento un certo non so che
31. Erismena : Uscitemi dal cor, lacrime amare
32. Sul Rodano severo
33. Cantata a due sopra la ciacconna : Lagrimosa beltà
34. Philippe Jaroussky and his friends comment on the programme