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While Faure's Requiem is a monument of French sacred music, Gounod's Messe de Clovis is much less well known. It was composed from 1891 onwards as a tribute to Clovis who, like Joan of Arc, had... more

André Cardinal Destouches was one of the most important opera composers of the generation between Lully and Rameau. Louis XIV is said to have declared that no opera since Lully had pleased him as... more

After five triumphs at the Paris Opéra, Chevalier Gluck, reformer of French opera and protégé of Marie-Antoinette, created his last work in 1779: Echo et Narcisse, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.... more

With his first Tragédie lyrique Andromaque (1780), Gretry broke unwritten laws of the French music theatre of his time: he had set to music a tragedy by the pillar saint Racine and departed far too... more

Two illustrious composers at odds with their Requiem? When, in 1791, a 36-year-old Mozart composed the one that would remain unfinished due to his death, he did so in response to a commission from... more

'Well, what a surprise - a divine surprise! I have delighted in immersing myself in the world of Handel for more than forty years now. But I must admit that I experienced yet another lesson in... more

In 1743, two years before Rameau's Platée, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero... more

Hervé Niquet resurrects Ariane et Bacchus (1696), using for the first time the exact performing forces and layout of the Paris Opéra orchestra in 1700 and thus giving us a historically informed... more

Jean-Baptiste Lully's Proserpine was composed in 1680 in collaboration with his trusted librettist Philippe Quinault. The first recording on GLOSSA was made in 2006/2007 following stage performances... more

In this recital, Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet bring back to life a neglected aspect of France's Romantic heritage: songs with orchestral accompaniment. Aside from a few pieces by Debussy and... more

Massenet was not only the composer of Manon and Werther. In the shadow of his stage works slumber many mélodies decked out in subtle and delicate orchestrations, which we are delighted to revive... more

Rameau: Pigmalion, Les Grands Motets / Niquet, Fouchécourt, de Reyghere, Piau, Gens, Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Performer: Sandrine Piau, Véronique Gens, Nicole Fournié, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt,... more