Special offer. Lalande: De Profundis & Grands Motets
The Choir of New College, Oxford, The King’s Consort, Les Pages et les Chantres de Versailles & La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Edward Higginbottom & Olivier Shneebeli
Special offer. Lalande: De Profundis & Grands Motets
The Choir of New College, Oxford, The King’s Consort, Les Pages et les Chantres de Versailles & La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Edward Higginbottom & Olivier Shneebeli
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Awards:
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Réédition
About
Michel-Richard de Lalande was the leading composer of sacred music at the French court during the 17th century. His Grands Motets – he composed 77 - dominated the repertory of the Royal Chapel during his lifetime and after, until the 1770s in the programmes of the Concert Spirituel in Paris. His works are marked by both expressive harmonic vocabulary and contrapuntal mastery, which is exemplary in this set.
Contents and tracklist
- Oliver Johnston (boy soprano), Clare Shanks (oboe), Rachel Brown (flute), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Angus Smith (tenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Charles Daniels (countertenor)
- King's Consort, Choir of New College Oxford
- Edward Higginbottom
- Gillian Fisher (soprano)
- King's Consort, Choir of New College Oxford
- Edward Higginbottom
- Gillian Fisher (soprano), Angus Smith (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Charles Daniels (countertenor), Catherine Mackintosh (violin)
- Choir of New College Oxford, King's Consort
- Edward Higginbottom
- Hervé Lamy (tenor), Alain Buet (bass)
- Les Pages & les Chantres de Versailles, La Grande Écurie & la Chambre du Roy
- Olivier Schneebeli
- Hervé Lamy (tenor), Howard Crook (tenor), Alain Buet (bass), Damien Guillon (countertenor), Salomé Haller (soprano)
- La Grande Écurie & la Chambre du Roy, Les Pages & les Chantres de Versailles
- Olivier Schneebeli
- Hervé Lamy (tenor), Alain Buet (bass), Howard Crook (tenor), Damien Guillon (countertenor), Salomé Haller (soprano)
- La Grande Écurie & la Chambre du Roy, Les Pages & les Chantres de Versailles
- Olivier Schneebeli
- Salomé Haller (soprano), Hervé Lamy (tenor), Alain Buet (bass), Damien Guillon (countertenor), Howard Crook (tenor)
- Les Pages & les Chantres de Versailles, La Grande Écurie & la Chambre du Roy
- Olivier Schneebeli
Awards and reviews
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Diapason d’OrApril 2018Réédition