Missa pro defunctis, for 5 voices & continuo: Prélude (Henri Frémart)
Missa pro defunctis, for 5 voices & continuo: Elevatio: Pie Jesu
Assumpta est Maria, mass for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra & continuo, H. 11: Gloria
Assumpta est Maria, mass for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra & continuo, H. 11: Credo: Credo in unum Deum - Patrem ompipotentem
Messe pour Monsieur de Mauroy, for 6 voices, chorus, instruments & continuo, H. 6: Agnus Dei
Messe pour Monsieur de Mauroy, for 6 voices, chorus, instruments & continuo, H. 6: Envoi
Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes, for 8 voices, chorus, 2 flutes, strings & continuo, H. 3: Prélude da capo - Kyrie da capo - Sinfonie pour finir le Kyrie
Te Deum, motet for 8 voices, chorus & orchestra, H. 146: Te aeternum
Te Deum, motet for 8 voices, chorus & orchestra, H. 146: Tibi Cherubin
Te Deum, motet for 8 voices, chorus & orchestra, H. 146: Pleni sunt caeli
Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: Ouverture. Adagio
Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: Ouverture. Allegro
Missa "Ecco si beato giorno", for 40 voices: Gloria
Missa "Ecco si beato giorno", for 40 voices: Agnus Dei
King Arthur, or, The British Worthy, semi-opera, Z. 628: Act 3. Symphony
King Arthur, or, The British Worthy, semi-opera, Z. 628: Act 4. Sirens: Two daughters of this aged stream
King Arthur, or, The British Worthy, semi-opera, Z. 628: Act 4. Passacaglia: How happy the lover
King Arthur, or, The British Worthy, semi-opera, Z. 628: Act 4. Symphony
Sonata for 3 recorders & basso continuo in C major, Op. 34/6
Second Ordre for harpsichord in F major (Pièces de Clavecin): Second Ordre. Chaconne: La Sonning
La Vie du Poète, symphony-drama for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Act 1. Enthousiasme (fragment)
Air pour Célestin
Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale, Op. 102: Act 2. Musette
Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale, Op. 102: Act 2. Air gai et gracieux: Que l'absence
Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale, Op. 102: Act 2. Musette: Que loin
Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale, Op. 102: Act 2. Rondeau: De l'Amour
Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale, Op. 102: Act 2. Tambourin
Le Concert Spirituel, named for the concert series (not exclusively spiritual) that was held on the second floor of the Tuileries in the 18th century until all hell broke loose, has specialized in French Baroque music. The group was founded in 1987 by leader Hervé Niquet, who was playing in William Christie's pioneering group Les Arts Florissants and heard a conductor, presumably not Christie, disparage the French repertory. Resolved to do better, he founded a group of his own. That nugget comes from the notes to this ...
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Le Concert Spirituel, named for the concert series (not exclusively spiritual) that was held on the second floor of the Tuileries in the 18th century until all hell broke loose, has specialized in French Baroque music. The group was founded in 1987 by leader Hervé Niquet, who was playing in William Christie's pioneering group Les Arts Florissants and heard a conductor, presumably not Christie, disparage the French repertory. Resolved to do better, he founded a group of his own. That nugget comes from the notes to this release, which were penned by Niquet himself and which provide a real sense of the enthusiasm that has attended Le Concert Spirituel since its beginnings. The album is a collection marking the group's 25th anniversary, and it could serve as an admirable introduction to the ensemble's work, and indeed to the French Baroque in general as well as related music in other countries and times. Consider the five divisions of the program, which bespeak an effort to come to terms with the music in...
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