Aux Armes, Citoyens! MUSIQUE ROYALE ET RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE POUR VENTS LES JACOBINS ACD2 2595 In the span of 50 years, France passed from revivals of Lully's masterpieces and Rameau's last lyric tragedies to Romantic symphonies by Berlioz.   Though Francois-Joseph Gossec's music may not be of the same high genius as that of the above-mentioned composers, it served nonetheless as the necessary impetus or springboard for the explorations of the French pre-Romantic composers who followed him.   A curious and cultivated musician, Gossec synthesized the inventions of Rameau in musical sound and those of the Mannheim school in style.   He developed the French orchestra and, snapping his fingers at the querelle des bouffons — the controversy then raging in Paris over the respective merits of French and Italian music — he ushered France into the realm of European classicism, thus finally bringing to an end the Baroque era that had lingered for so long in his homeland. … LES JACOBINS MATHIEU LUSSIER DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE | ARTISTIC DIRECTION JANE BOOTH • MARTIN CARPENTIER CLARINETTES | CLARINETS LOUIS-PHILIPPE MARSOLAIS • JULIE-ANNE DROLET CORS | HORNS MATHIEU LUSSIER • NADINA MACKIE JACKSON BASSONS | BASSOONS INSTRUMENTS D'ÉPOQUE | PERIOD INSTRUMENTS FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC [1734-1829]   1 | LA GRANDE CHASSE DE CHENTILLI [RH. 176] 3:13   2 | CHANT FUNÈBRE SUR LA MORT DE FÉRAUD * [1794] 2.59   3 | LA MARSEILLAISE (ARR. COSSEC, 1793]* 2:53       SUITE D'AIRS RÉVOLUTIONNAIRES * 7:14   4 | I. Ah! Ça ira [BÉCOURT, 1790] 0:53   5 | II. Le réveil du peuple contre les terroristes [CAVEAUX, 1795] 1:45   6 | III. Hymne à l'être suprême (CATEL, 1794] 1:39   7 | IV. Hymne pour la fête de Bara et Viala [MÉHUL, 1794] 0:58   8 | V. Marche Victorieuse (COSSEC, 1794] 1:59       LA BATAILLE [RH. 179] 5:24   9 | I. «L'appel des trouppes» (sic) 1:16 10 | II. Marche 1:39 11 | III. Mèlée ou attaque 1:08 12 | IV. Victoire 1:21 13 | ANDANTE [RH. 175] 4:19       LA CHASSE D'HYLAS ET SILVIE [RH. 178) 6.03 14 | I. (Allegro) 1:49 15 | II. Andante Larghetto 4:14       QUATRE HYMNES A LA LIBERTÉ * 13:34 16 | I. Hymne à la liberté : au lever de l'aurore place de la Bastille [1793] 5:58 17 | II. Marche religieuse [1794] 1:38 18 | III. O salutaris [1782] 4:01 19 | IV. Hymne à la statue de la liberté (l793) 2:05       SIMPHONIE À 6 [RH. 177] 11:19 20 | I. (Allegro) 4:22 21 | II. Andante 3:29 22 | III. Poco presto 2:29 23 | IV. Cosac: Tres gaÿ 0:59       * ARRANGEMENTS: MATHIEU LUSSIER ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879