Destouches: Télémaque & Calypso (2-CD)

Composer: André-Cardinal Destouches
Artists: Isabelle Druet, Antonin Rondepierre, Emmanuelle de Negri, David Witczak, Hasnaa Bennani, Marine Lafdal-Franc, Adrien Fournaison, David Tricou, Clin Isoir, Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Vaersailles, Les Ombres
Conductor: Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Château de Versailles
Release Date: February 29, 2024

At the end of the world, on the mythical island of Ogygia, while Neptune unleashes a storm, the inconsolable Calypso tries to seduce a handsome young castaway named Telemachus… Will Ulysses’s son respond to the nymph’s dangerous charms? Will he manage, as a humble mortal in the scheme of the gods, to escape the island where his father was once a prisoner? 

A quintessential Homeric epic, Télémaque & Calypso is a flamboyant tribute to Destouches’s own dramatic efficiency, and his particular attention to lively speech and natural declamation. After Sémiramis, Sylvain Sartre continues his brilliant journey through the masterpieces of the adventurous composer and musketeer, which are now finally revealed.

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