Gervais/ Purcell Choir/ Vashegyi - Hypermnestre Release:Hypermnestre Glossa a year which is often

a year which is often called 'Schumann's chamber music year'

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) Though he's never had any formal musical training

whether it be at home

Gervais/ Purcell Choir/ Vashegyi - Hypermnestre Release:Hypermnestre Glossa a year which is oftenThe remarkable Hypermnestre by Charles Hubert Gervais is the latest unremembered early 18th century French opera to be recorded afresh for Glossa, and conducted by Gyrgy Vashegyi. Gervais was a contemporary of Campra and Destouches, learning from Lully and paving the way for Rameau and, like Marais and Franois Couperin, open to the Italianising trends of "les gots runis". A high quality libretto from Joseph La Font tackles the story of Hypermnestra