The baroque spirit in all its musical shapes. Jean Gilles and François Couperin, both were born 350 years ago.
Jean Gilles was very famous because of his masterpiece, the Requiem Messe des Morts. François Couperin ‘Le Grand’ was the most important member of the musical family Couperin. He contributed to La Grande Manière, composed for a gamba consort and was regarded in his time as the best composer for harpsichord and organ.
Jean Gilles
Jean Gilles (1668-1705)
1. Première Lamentation pour le Jeudi saint au soir (First Lamentation for Maundy Thursday)
– De lamentation – Heth – Cogitavit Dominus
– Thet – Defixae in terra – Jod – Sederunt
– Caph – Defecerunt prae lacrimis
– Jerusalem convertere ad Dominum
Choeur de chambre Les éléments and Orchestre Les Passions conducted by Jean Marc Andrieu. Anne Magouet, soprano. Vincent Lièvre, countertenor. Bruno Boterf, tenor and Alain Buet, bass
(CD Jean Gilles – Lamentations, Ligia Lidi 0202212-10)
François Couperin (1668-1733)
2. La Sultane: Sonade and quator
The Spirit of Gambo: Pieta Gardien and Naomi Hirschfeld, discant gamba. Freek Borstlap and Geesje Liedmeier, bass gamba and David van Ooijen, theorbo
(CD La Manière Magnifique, Jubal:CD ZV 92161)
François Couperin (1668-1733)
3. Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Ménestrandise, Onzieme Ordre (2-eme livre)
1e acte: Les Notables et Jurés – Ménestrandeurs
2e acte: Les Viéleux et les Gueux
3e acte: Les Jongleurs, Sauteurs, et Saltimbanques
4e acte: Les Invalides, ou gens estropiés au service de la grande Ménestrandise
5e acte: Désordre et déroute de toute troupe, causés par les Yvrognes, Les Singes et les Ours
Kenneth Gilbert, harpsichord
(CD Prelude Baroque – François Couperin, Harmonia Mundi HMX 290803)
Jean Gilles (1668-1705)
4. Motet: Diligam te Domine
– Symphonie – Diligam te Domine
– Laudans invocabo
– Dolores inferni circum dederunt me
– In tribulaione invocavi Dominum
– Commota est et contremuit
– Inclinavit caelos et descendit
– Et Ascendit super cherubin
Choeur de chambre Les éléments en Orchestre Les Passions conducted by Jean Marc Andrieu
(CD Jean Gilles – Lamentations, Ligia Lidi 0202212-10)
On featured image: François Couperin
