Western religious music from different centuries. In this episode, three examples of a typical French genre: the grand motet, a spiritual work from early Baroque for solo voices, choir and orchestra.
Henry Du Mont (1610-1684)
1. O aeterne misericors Deus
Ensemble Correspondances conducted by Sébastien Daucé
(CD: “O Mysterium – Motets et Élévations pour la Chapelle de Louis XIV” – Harmonia mundi HMC 902241, 2016)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
2. Conserva me, Domine (H 230)
Inigo Jones, soprano. Guy Cutting, David Lee, countertenor. Oliver Longland, baritone. James Geidt, bass. Choir of New College Oxford and Oxford Baroque conducted by Edward Higginbottom
(CD: “Musique sacrée” – Novum NCR 1387, 2013)
Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)
3. Te Deum (S 32)
Emmanuelle de Negri and Dagmar Šašková, soprano. Sean Clayton, countertenor. Cyril Auvity, tenor. André Morsch, bass. Ensemble Aedes, Le Poème Harmonique conducted by Vincent Dumestre
(CD: “Majesté” – Alpha 968, 2018)
Picture: Le Poème Harmonique (photograph by: Jean-Baptiste Millot)
