Opera Lafayette:Brown - RAMEAU: Opera Airs for High Tenor

This recording of airs from Rameau's heroic ballets and lyric tragedies features the renowned haute-contre Jean-Paul Fouch?�court, one of the main exponents of the French Baroque repertoire for the last decade and who, most recently, has been closely associated with Rameau's opera 'Plat?�e'. In these excerpts, Rameau's colourful palette of musical characterization traverses a wide range of emotion, from the profoundly moving 'Lieux funestes' ('Dardanus') to the witty and imaginative air 'Charmant Bacchus' ('Plat?�e') when, for example, Rameau cleverly employs 'drunken' part writing under Thespis' words \Duss?�-je ?�tre mal ?�cout?� (Even at the risk of being misunderstood).