The Messe de Requiem is one of André Campra’s (1660–1744) best known works and was performed especially during the 18th century at important funerals and memorial services. Despite the serious subject, the tenor is neither bleak nor filled with pain but solemnly sublime. Also in the grand motet De profundis, Campara, by means of ever newer pictorial - musical representations, leads us step by step from grief to eternal bliss, thus demonstrating his theatrical abilities. ensemble3 – which grew out of the “Internationale Chorakademie im Dreiländereck” – has, under the musical direction of Hans Michael Beuerle, recorded two of the most important works of the French Baroque.