William Christie
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Biography
Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie was born in Buffalo, New York, on December 19, 1944, and is renowned for restoring the French Baroque repertoire to its former glory. At the helm of Les Arts Florissants since 1979, the French-born Harvard and Yale graduate has exhumed or renovated works by Charpentier, Rameau and Lully, as well as the Bach family and Mozart, Handel and Purcell. Since his landmark performance of Lully's opera Atys in 1987, the Franco-American conductor has won acclaim at major festivals (Zürich, Glyndebourne) and led orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic. An Academician of Fine Arts, William Christie is also involved in training young singers with Le Jardin des Voix and in a heritage project with his Jardins de Thiré, in the Vendée. The compilation Le Baroque Français, released in 2016, brings together his greatest interpretations. In 2024, the year of his eightieth birthday, The Complete Erato Recordings and Bill & Friends, a recital featuring his close friends Justin Taylor, Thomas Dunford, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Gwendoline Blondeel, Juliette Mey, Myriam Rignol and Emmanuel Resche-Caserta, will be released.
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- Exaudiat te Dominus (psaume 19): Hii in curribus (Duo de basses-tailles) featuring William Christie
- Domine, ne in furore : VII "Turbatus est a furore"
- Exaudiat te Dominus (psaume 19): Impleat Dominus (Duo haute-contre/taille) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Domine, Ne In Furore : VIII "Discedite A Me Omnes"
- Exaudiat te Dominus (psaume 19): Lµtabimur in salutari tuo (Choeur & basse-taille) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Exaudiat te Dominus (psaume 19): Domine salvum fac Regem (Trio haute-contre/taille/basse-taille) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Exaudiat te Dominus (psaume 19): Ipsi obligate sunt (Choeur) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: Chorus. "Queen of Summer" (Heathens)
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: "Return, Septimius" (Valens)
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: Air. "Wide spread his name" (Valens)
- Motet pour une longue offrande, H. 434: No. 4a, Choeur "Pluet super peccatores laqueos" (Chorus) - No. 4b, Trio "Vidi impium superexaltatum" (Haute-contre, Taille, Basse-taille)
- Exaudiat te Dominus (psaume 19): Et exaudi nos (Choeur) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: Symphony I
- Judicium Salomonis, histoire sacrée, H. 422: Dispute des deux mères, 10. Choeur "Audivit omnis Israel" (Chorus)
- Judicium Salomonis, histoire sacrée, H. 422: Dispute des deux mères, 9a. Récit "Obsecro mi domine" (Vera Mater) - 9b. Duo "Non est ita ut dicis" (Falsa Mater, Vera Mater) - 9c. Récit "Haec dicit filius meus" (Salomon) - 9d. Duo "Non est ita
- Motet pour une longue offrande, H. 434: No. 2, Air "Paravit Dominus in judicio thronum suum" (Basse-taille)
- Motet pour une longue offrande, H. 434: No. 1, Prélude
- Notus in Judea Deus (1729): Cum exurgeret (Recit de haute-contre) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Notus in Judea Deus (1729): De coelo auditum (Choeur) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Notus in Judea Deus (1729): Ab increpatione ( Recit de basse-taille & duo de basses-taille) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Notus in Judea Deus (1729): Dormierunt somnum suum ( Recit de dessus) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Judicium Salomonis, histoire sacrée, H. 422: Secunda Pars, Le Songe de Salomon, 8a. Grand Récit "Quia non petisti tibi dies multos" (Deus) - 8b. "Si autem ambulaveris" (Deus)
- De profundis: Si iniquitates (Recit de haute-contre) featuring Alain Lanceron
- Judicium Salomonis, histoire sacrée, H. 422: Prima Pars, 3. Trio "Et rex similiter valde laetatus est" (Populus 1, Populus 2, Populus 3)
