Stephane Fuget; Les Epop�es - Charpentier: Aupres du feu l'on fait l'amour. Serious Airs & Drinking Songs

�Perc� jusques au fond du coeur� (�Pierced to my heart�s depths�) is a tragic proclamation of Le Cid�s voice, at last put to music by �Mr Charpentier, famed for a thousand works that charmed all of France�. This collection of courtly arias, serious songs and drinking songs, played both at the Court of Louis XV and in the inner circles of the French bourgeoisie, is a marvellous maze on the Map of Tendre developed by Charpentier, a poet-musician whose sophistication vies with an irresistible sense of theatricality! Under the direction of St�phane Fuget, the cream of French vocalists restores the original aura of these gems, with glittering ornamentation.