Rigel • The Breath of the Revolution

Description

Following the release of last year’s album Les soupers du Roy, Arion Orchestre Baroque presents Rigel : Le souffle de la Révolution, devoted to rarely recorded vocal and instrumental works by classical composer Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741-1799).

Presented as the second project in collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), the recording features soloists Magali Simard-Galdès (soprano), Nicholas Scott (tenor), and Mélisande McNabney (fortepiano), all under the direction of Mathieu Lussier, conductor and artistic director of Arion Orchestre Baroque.

Rigel’s works include excerpts from the pastoral comedy Blanche et Vermeille, the lyric drama Alix Beaucaire, a Sonata and a Concerto for pianoforte, and the Symphony in G Major, Op. 12, No. 12. All the scores for this recording were edited by Mathieu Lussier and by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV).