Cantates romantiques françaises

Description

This recording is an invitation to discovery: that of French Romantic cantatas by Cherubini, Hérold and Boisselot, in the company of an exceptional guide, mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes, and with the attentive collaboration of Opera Fuoco and its conductor, David Stern. Composed between 1789 and 1836, these works bear witness to a genre, the French cantata, very much present in the Baroque period, and revived in the 19th century as a kind of alternative to the Italian scena, generally perceived in France as too exuberant. Discoveries, then, combined with the pleasure of hearing the splendid voice - and one particularly suited to this repertoire - of Karine Deshayes.