Le Mariage forcé : Work information

Composers
Marc-Antoine Charpentier ( Music, Images,)
Performed by
New Chamber Opera Ensemble, Gary Cooper (Conductor)

This work

Work name
Le Mariage forcé
Work number
H. 494
Key
n/a
Genre
A
Composed
1672-01-01 02:00:00

This recording

Label
Gaudeamus
Producer
Michael Ponder
Engineer
Martin Haskell
Recording date
1996-06-01 01:00:00

The Composers

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Charpentier left his home in Paris in the 1660s to study with the composer Carissimi in Rome.  He was well schooled in Italian compositional models of the time, which initially gave him something of an outsider status back in France.  An association with the stage began with Molière's troupe, and he wrote incidental music for productions of works such as La Malade Imaginaire.  By the early 1680s he was employed by the Dauphin as musical director and was later granted a pension by Louis XIV who, although frequently associated with Charpentier, never employed him.  In 1698 he was made master of music at the Sainte-Chapelle, which led to him writing his greatest sacred works.

Related composers: Jean-Baptiste Lully

Track listing

  • Ouverture de La comtesse d’Escarbagnas 2:20 min
  • Les Marys 1:26 min
  • Dialogue: 'Mon Compere, En Bonne Foy' 1:48 min
  • Trio Grotesque Au Lieu (De) 'La, La, La, La, Bonjour' 1:59 min
  • Menuet 0:54 min
  • 'Belle Ou Laide, Il N'Importe Guiere' 1:08 min
  • 'Ah! Quelle Etrange Extravagance' 2:06 min
  • Gavotte 0:52 min
  • 'La, La, La, La, Bonjour' 2:49 min
  • Les Grotesques 0:52 min
  • 'O, La Belle Simphonie!' 2:56 min
  • Le Songe 1:08 min
  • Les Boemienes, Sarabande: 'Les Rossignols, Dans Leurs Tendres Ramages' 3:28 min