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Bearing witness to a miraculously preserved and somewhat mysterious musical world, this precious recording reveals a repertory at once sober and refined, moving and poetic, which invites us to open the gates of those convents that, in the midseventeenth century, attracted from Paris and throughout the kingdom a public enthralled by their angelic voices, animated by a single deep and authentic faith which further increased the powerful appeal and the mystery of their singing.
The repertory for high voices by Boesset transmitted by the precious Deslauriers manuscript is also moving in its rarity, since it is the only surviving musical evidence of the religious output of one of the most influential French composers of the seventeenth century.
Henry Du Mont: Cantica sacra
Cantica sacra: Allemanda gravis
Antoine Boesset: Anna mater matris redemptoris nostri
Anna mater matris redemptoris nostri
Antoine Boesset: Quam pulchra es
Quam pulchra es
Missus est Gabriel Angelus [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Missus est Gabriel Angelus [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Antoine Boesset: Messe du 11e mode
Kyrie
Gloria
Henry Du Mont: Meslanges, Book 2
Meslanges, Book 2: Prelude
Messe du 11e mode
Messe du 11e mode: Credo
Etienne Moulinie: Meslanges
Meslanges: Dum esset rex
Ave maria gratia plena [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Ave maria gratia plena [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Messe du 11e mode
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Antoine Boesset: Domine salvum fac regem
Domine salvum fac regem
Ecce ancilla Domini [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Ecce ancilla Domini [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Giuseppe Giamberti: Antiphonae
Antiphonae: Veni electa mea
Cantica sacra
Cantica sacra: Symphonia a 4
Antoine Boesset: Dixit Dominus
Dixit Dominus
Gabriel Angelus [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Gabriel Angelus [Antiphonier de Montmartre, 1643]
Antoine Boesset: Salve Regina
Salve Regina
Meslanges
Meslanges: Beata Dei genitrix
Antoine Boesset: Sancta Maria
Sancta Maria
Visitat Maria Elisabeth
Visitat Maria Elisabeth
Antiphonae
Antiphonae: Similabo eum viro sapienti
Antoine Boesset: Magnificat
Magnificat
Antoine Boesset: Ave mater pia
Ave mater pia
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