J.-Ph. Rameau: Les Boréades, 2020, Château de Versailles Spectacles
Cette nouvelle version a été enregistrée en janvier 2020, lors du concert donné à l’Opéra Royal de Versailles par le « Collegium 1704 » sous la direction du tchèque Václav Luks, et c’est un émerveillement. Les solistes ne déméritent pas face aux stars de la version Gardiner. Ils sont tous formidables et leur diction est remarquable. Marcel Quiellévéré, Forumopera.com
All this is superbly performed by Václav Luks and his Czech chorus and orchestra. The principal soloists are, mostly, French or Belgian. As the much put-upon Alphise, Deborah Cachet is particularly forceful in ‘Songe affreux’, where she dismisses the nightmare that she had described earlier. The metaphor air for Alphise or Sémire, ‘Un horizon serein’, is assigned to Sémire, Alphise’s confidante: less appropriate, but Caroline Weynants spits out the extraordinary repeated quavers – another storm! – with brilliance; indeed it’s hard to distinguish her soprano from that of the similarly bright-edged Deborah Cachet. Richard Lawrence, gramophone.co.uk
