Hervé Niquet, the conductor who has recorded so many of the grand motets of the Grand Siècle -- those choral-orchestral works by Lully, Rameau, Campra, and Charpentier that stand with the cantatas of Bach and the anthems of Handel as the great sacred works of the Baroque -- turns here to three works by Henry Desmarets that were, in their time, ...
The Te Deum text usually called forth splendid settings from Baroque composers of whatever stripe, and the 1692 setting by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, written to celebrate a French military victory that year over the combined forces of the League of Augsburg, is among his most imposing works. The interested listener now has several stirring ...
The revival of Prosperpine, Lully's 1680 collaboration with his longtime librettist Philippe Quinault, by Hervé Niquet and his ensemble Le Concert Spirituel, reveals that while the opera may not have the most compelling dramatic impact, it has an abundance of expressive, elegant, richly varied music, written with inspiration that never flags over ...
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