LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL Les 25 ans !!!
GCD 921626. 2 CDs
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Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet, direction
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Total playing time 77:16 + 78:30 Musical selection made by Hervé Niquet Recorded in Paris, Metz, Montpellier, Saint-Michel en Thiérache, Namur, Antwerp and Brussels between 1999 and 2011 Engineered by Manuel Mohino Produced by Dominique Daigremont Executive producer: Carlos Céster Booklet text by Hervé NiquetEnglish – Français – Deutsch
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Musical selection made by Hervé Niquet
CD 1
I. MUSIQUE RELIGIEUSE
Pierre Bouteiller (c.1655-c.1717) Missa pro defunctis 01 Prélude (Henri Frémart) 02 Elevatio: Pie Jesu
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) Missa Assumpta est Maria 03 Gloria 04 Credo: Credo in unum Deum – Patrem omnipotentem
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy 05 Agnus Dei 06 Envoi Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe à huit voix 07 Prélude da capo – Kyrie da capo – Sinfonie pour finir le Kyrie
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Te Deum à huit voix 08 Te aeternum 09 Tibi Cherubim 10 Pleni sunt caeli
II. DÉMESURE Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) Music for the Royal Fireworks 11 Ouverture. Adagio 12 Ouverture. Allegro
Alessandro Striggio (c.1536-1592) Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno 13 Gloria 14 Agnus Dei
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) King Arthur 15 Act III. Symphony 16 Act IV. Sirens: Two daughters of this aged stream 17 Act IV. Passacaglia: How happy the lover 18 Act IV. Symphony (Véronique Gens, soprano / Hanna Bayodi, soprano / Béatrice Jarrige, alto / Cyril Auvity, high tenor / Joseph Cornwell, tenor / Peter Harvey, bass)
III. JARDIN SECRET
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755) Sonate VI à quatre parties 19 Adagio – Allegro – Largo – Allegro
François d’Agincour (1684-1758) Pièces de clavecin dédiées à la reine 20 Second Ordre. Chaconne: La Sonning (Hervé Niquet, harpsichord / Caroline Delume, baroque guitar)
Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) La Vie du poète 21 Acte I «Enthousiasme» (frag.) (Flemish Radio Choir / Brussels Philharmonic)
Robert Gilbert (1899-1978) 22 Air pour Célestin (Hervé Niquet, voice)
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CD 2
IV. OPÉRAS
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Daphnis & Chloé 01 Acte II. Musette 02 Acte II. Air gai et gracieux: Que l’absence... 03 Acte II. Musette: Que loin... 04 Acte II. Rondeau: De l’Amour... 05 Acte II. Tambourin 06 Acte II. Chœur: Vents orageux (Gaëlle Méchaly, soprano / Marie-Louise Duthoit, soprano / François-Nicolas Geslot, high tenor)
Henry Purcell Dido & Aeneas 07 Act II. Sorceress: Wayward sisters 08 Act II. Witches: But ere we this perform 09 Act II. Chorus: In our deep-vaulted cell (Laura Pudwell, mezzo-soprano)
André Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749) Callirhoé 10 Acte I. Scène première: O nuit témoin... 11 Acte II. Scène première: Espoir, revenez... 12 Acte II. Scène cinquième: Quel coup... 13 Acte V. Scène troisième: Ah! Prince, ... (Stéphanie d’Oustrac, mezzo-soprano / Cyril Auvity, high tenor / João Fernandes, bass)
Marin Marais (1656-1728) Sémélé 14 Acte III. Prélude et récit: Tremble des maux... 15 Acte III. Air: Amour, régnez en paix 16 Acte III. Prélude et récit: Terrible Roy... 17 Acte III. Symphonie 18 Acte III. Récit: Le charme est fait 19 Acte III. Chœur et récit: Ordonne... 20 Acte III. Chœur: Qu’un affreux ravage... 21 Acte III. Air pour les furies 22 Acte III. Récit: Cesse ; je ne puis plus résister (Shannon Mercer, soprano / Hjördis Thébault, mezzo-soprano)
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) Andromaque 23 Acte III. Combat 24 Acte III. Hermione: Quels cris... 25 Acte III. Oreste: Princesse, c’en est fait ! 26 Acte III. Hermione: Barbare, ne voyais-tu pas 27 Acte III. Oreste: Est-ce Hermione ? 28 Acte III. Chœur: Ô fureur ! 29 Acte III. Chœur: Sauvons-le de sa fureur ! 30 Acte III. Oreste: Filles d’enfer... 31 Acte III. Chœur: Dieux implacables... (Maria-Riccarda Wesseling, mezzo-soprano / Tassis Christoyannis, baritone)
André Campra (1660-1744) Le Carnaval de Venise 32 Prologue. Premier et second passepied 33 Acte I. La Vénitienne 34 Acte II. Premier et second canaries 35 Acte III. Marche des gondoliers 36 Acte III. Rigaudon 37 Orfeo nell’inferi. Sinfonia 38 Orfeo nell’inferi. Aria per gli spirti folletti 39 Le Bal. Marche du Carnaval 40 Le Bal. Bourrée 41 Le Bal. Menuets en rondeau 42 Le Bal. Chaconne (Mathias Vidal, high tenor)
V. MES PETITS BIJOUS PRÉFÉRÉS
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Daphnis & Chloé 43 Acte III. Chaconne
Marin Marais Sémélé 44 Prologue. Troisième air pour les Ménades
André Cardinal Destouches Callirhoé 45 Acte IV. Premier air des bergers
About this CD
26 years ago, Hervé Niquet recalls having become so incensed with the disparaging remarks directed at French music and the Lamentations of Jean Gilles in particular by a conductor of a choir in which he was then singing that Niquet vowed to set up his own ensemble and record the work – and demonstrate furthermore other beauties of music from his country (and beyond). And so was born Le Concert Spirituel, now celebrating its quarter century, its vocal and instrumental forces throughout that time constantly delighting audiences with its joyous celebration of music from the 17th and 18th centuries (and now with Charles-Simon Catel’s Sémiramis, the dawn of the 19th).
To mark the anniversary, Glossa is now issuing an attractively-priced double-disc celebration, with Niquet pulling out the stops from across Le Concert Spirituel’s broad and expansive range (and he started musical life as an organist, after all): Baroque sacred music, Marc-Antoine Charpentier assuredly; selections from Le Concert Spirituel’s “re-oxygenation”, as he calls it, of the tragédie lyrique (Grétry, Campra, Destouches), but also demonstrations of his own nimble-footed theatrical tendency (Niquet is an avowed fan of the music-hall!) in Handel, Purcell and Striggio.
Musical ostentation and bravura are concluded on each disc by some of Niquet’s own special bonnes bouches: Boismortier, D’Agincour, Marais and excerpts from his “other” Charpentier (Gustave). All accompanied by a sparkling apéritif from the conductor himself about how Le Concert Spirituel came to reach its 25th anniversary!