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Hercule mourant

Antoine Dauvergne

Reviews (4)

BBC music magazine

2013 April

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Jan Smaczny

2013 April

"This is an enjoyable disc, and Christophe Rousset's accompaniment is mostly flawless. Andrew Foster-Williams (Hercules) has the measure of the drama in his role, even if his tone is occasionally a little rough ... Very well recorded, this is a work to savour even if it doesn't pack the punch of Dauvergne's teacher, Rameau".

Fono Forum

2013 Februar

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Reinmar Emans

2013 Februar

"Die Vokalisten überzeugen auf ganzer Linie".

International record review

2013 February

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Simon Heighes

2013 February

"Hercule mourant could have no more persuasive performers ... [Véronique Gens] is brilliantly able to bring to life late-French Baroque recitative, with its constantly shifting rhetorical-lyrical style and finding so many beauties in the smallest details ... Top honours, though, go to bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams as Hercules himself ... From his first sentence he imbues Marmontel's heightened lyrics and Dauvergne's commanding vocal phrases with ringing authority ... If you already have some Rameau and Gluck on your shelves, then Dauvergne will prove an interesting middleman".

The gramophone

2013 March

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David Vickers

2013 March

"Rousset's theatrical pacing is spot-on; Les Talens Lyriques are on fine form in the lithe Ouverture; and dances are played with a keen sense of balletic movement. Véronique Gens's authoritative recitatives convey the swinging emotional fortunes of the anxious Déjanire ... Hercules's bitter shame at his unworthy deceit of his wife at the start of Act 3 is sung commandingly by Andrew Foster-Williams ... Repays investigation".