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William Christie

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William Lincoln Christie (born December 19, 1944 in Buffalo, New York) is the founder and director of Les Arts Florissants. Christie studied art history at Harvard University (where he was briefly assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club) and music at Yale University. He moved to France in 1971, where he became known for his interpretations of Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music, working with René Jacobs and others. In 1979 he founded Les Arts Florissants

Top songs

  1. Purcell : King Arthur : Air
  2. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "When I am laid in earth" [Dido]
  3. Purcell: King Arthur, Act 3: "What power art thou" [Bass]
  4. Purcell : King Arthur : Overture to Act 1
  5. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "See, see, we assemble" [Chorus] Dance
  6. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Overture
  7. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, Act 3: "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)
  8. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Shake the cloud from off your brow" [Belinda, Chorus]
  9. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Ah Belinda, I am press'd with torment" [Dido]
  10. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying" [Sopranos]
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  1. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "Woden, first to thee" [Bass, Chorus]
  2. Messe de Minuit Pour Noel - Kyrie
  3. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Grief increases by concealing" [Belinda, Dido] "When monarchs unite, how happy their state" [Chorus]
  4. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "Brave souls, to be renown'd in story" [Chorus]
  5. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "The Triumphing Dance"
  6. Mozart : Ave Verum Corpus K618
  7. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Whence could so much virtue spring?" [Dido, Belinda]
  8. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "Fear no danger to ensue" [Belinda, Chorus]
  9. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "The white horse neigh'd aloud" [Bass, Tenor, Chorus]
  10. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : III Dies irae
  11. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Fairest Isle" [Soprano]
  12. Noëls sur les Instruments
  13. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "The lot is cast, and Tanfan pleas'd" [Soprano]
  14. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "See our royal guest appears" [Belinda, Aeneas] "Cupid only throws the dart" [Chorus]
  15. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Hither, this way, this way bend" [Soprano, Chorus]
  16. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "With drooping wings" [Chorus]
  17. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "I call you all to Woden's Hall" [Tenor, Chorus]
  18. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 Prelude for the Witches "Wayward sisters, you that fright" [Sorceress] "Harm's our delight" [Chorus]
  19. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act I "If not for mine, for Empire's sake" [Aeneas] "Pursue thy conquest, Love" [Belinda] "To the hills and the vales" [Chorus]
  20. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : I Introitus
  21. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 1 "Come if you dare" [Tenor, Chorus]
  22. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "But ere we this perform" [First Witch, Second Witch]
  23. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Thou doting fool" [Soprano]
  24. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, Act 3: "When I am laid in earth"
  25. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 Prelude
  26. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "What ho! thou genius of this isle" [Soprano]
  27. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "The Queen of Carthage" ... "Ho! ho! ho!" [Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus]
  28. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "How blest are shepherds" [Tenor, Chorus]
  29. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 4 "How happy the lover" [Tenor, Chorus] Ritornello "For love every creature" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus] "In vain are our graces" [Chorus]
  30. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 1 "In our deep vaulted cell... Echo Dance of Furies" [Chorus]
  31. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Great love, I know thee now" [Bass]
  32. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "No part of my dominion" [Soprano]
  33. King Arthur : Act 3 "What power art thou" [Bass]
  34. Mozart : Die Zauberflöte : Act 1 "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" [Pamina, Papageno]
  35. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Tis I that have warm'd ye" [Soprano] "Tis love that has warm'd us" [Chorus]
  36. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Come away" [Sailor, Chorus] "The Sailors' Dance"
  37. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "The Witches' Dance"
  38. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Ritornelle" "Thanks to these lonesome vales" [Belinda, Chorus]
  39. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Come, shepherds, lead up a lively measure" [Chorus] Hornpipe
  40. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Come, follow me" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]
  41. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Oft she visits this lone mountain" [Second Woman]
  42. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 4 "Two daughters of this aged stream are we" [Sopranos]
  43. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 2 "Let not a moonborn elf mislead ye" [Bass] "Hither this way, this way bend" [Chorus]
  44. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : VIII Lacrimosa
  45. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Stay Prince" [Spirit, Aeneas]
  46. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Behold upon my bending spear" [Aeneas, Dido] "Haste, haste to town" [Belinda, Chorus]
  47. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 Hornpipe
  48. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Our natives not alone appear" [Chorus]
  49. Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618
  50. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : II Kyrie
  51. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Destruction's our delight" [Chorus]
  52. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Chaconne
  53. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 2 "Then since our chorus have sped" [Chorus] "The Grove's Dance"
  54. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Great minds against themselves conspire" [Chorus] "Thy hand, Belinda" [Dido]
  55. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "Your counsel all is urged in vain" [Dido, Belinda, Aeneas]
  56. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 Sinfonia
  57. Purcell : Dido & Aeneas : Act 3 "See, see the flags" [Sorceress, First Witch] "Our next motion" [Sorceress]
  58. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "Sound a parley" [Soprano, Bass] "Tis Love that has warm'd us" [Chorus]
  59. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 4 Air
  60. Couperin : Première leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi saint : I Incipit lamentio
  61. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Trumpet Tune
  62. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies" [Bass]
  63. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Round thy coast" [Soprano, Bass, Chorus]
  64. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Your hay it is mow'd" [Bass, Chorus]
  65. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Symphony
  66. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : VII Confutatis
  67. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "For folded flocks, and fruitful plains" [Tenors, Bass]
  68. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "Saint George" [Soprano, Chorus]
  69. Handel : Alcina : Act 1 "Tornami a vagheggiar" [Morgana]
  70. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 Trumpet Tune - Warlike Consort
  71. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : V Rex tremendae
  72. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : IV Tuba mirum
  73. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 3 "What power art thou" [Bass]
  74. Purcell : King Arthur : Act 5 "You say 'tis Love" [Soprano, Bass]
  75. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : X Hostias
  76. Charpentier : Messe de minuit pour Noël H9 : Gloria in excelsis Deo
  77. Couperin : Première leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi saint : II Aleph
  78. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : VI Recordare
  79. Mozart : Die Entführung aus dem Serail : Overture to Act 1
  80. Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act 1: No. 1, Sinfonia (Presto - Adagio)
  81. Dido & Aeneas, Act 3: "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)
  82. Lully : Isis : Prelude "L'hiver qui nous tourmente" [Chorus] "Laizzez-moi, cruelle Furie!" [Io, La Furie] "Ah! quelle peine de trembler" [Chorus]
  83. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : IX Domine Jesu
  84. Lully : Psyché : Prelude
  85. Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 : I "Deus in adjutorium"
  86. Charpentier : Médée : Prologue Overture to Act 1
  87. Couperin : Troisième leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi saint : I Yod
  88. Mozart : Requiem in D Minor K626 : XII Benedictus
  89. Couperin : Première leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi saint : III Beth
  90. Couperin : Troisième leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi saint : VI Jerusalem

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