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Charpentier - Missa Assumpta est Maria,

Recorded at IRCAM, Paris, in July 2008

Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Hanna Bayodi-Hirt (sopranos), François-Nicolas Geslot (counter-tenor), Romain Champion (tenor) & Benoît Arnould (bass)

Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet

…is musically and interpretatively satisfying. Le Concert Spirituel possess a fluency which complements the graceful eloquence of Charpentier's style. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Apr 2009
Catalogue No: GCD921617
Label: Glossa
Length: 60 minutes

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Charpentier, M-A: Missa 'Assumpta est Maria', H. 11

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Kyrie: Sinfonie devant le premier

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Kyrie: Premier

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Kyrie: Sinfonie devant le Christe

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Kyrie: Christe

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Kyrie: Sinfonie devant le deuxieme

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Kyrie: Deuxieme

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Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo

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Gloria: Et in terra pax hominibus

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Gloria: Domine Deus, Rex caelestis

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Gloria: Qui tollis pecatta mundi

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Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus

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Charpentier, M-A: Motet à voix seule, H361

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Missa Assumpta est Maria, H. 11

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Credo: Credo in unum Deum

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Credo: Patrem omnipotentem

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Credo: Et in unum Dominum

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Credo: Et incarnatus

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Credo: Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

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Credo: Et resurrexit

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Credo: Et in spiritum

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Credo: Confiteor unum baptisma

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Credo: Et vitam venturi saeculi

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Charpentier, M-A: Pour un reposoir, H. 208

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Ouverture

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Tantum ergo

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Allemande grave

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Missa Assumpta est Maria, H. 11

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Sanctus: Sinfonie du Sanctus

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Sanctus

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Charpentier, M-A: O salutaris Hostia, H262

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Missa Assumpta est Maria, H. 11

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Benedictus pour l'Orgue

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Agnus Dei: Sinfonie devant l'Agnus

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Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei

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Agnus Dei: Sinfonie derriere l'Agnus

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Charpentier, M-A: Dominum salvum, H. 303

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Charpentier, M-A: Domine Salvum Fac Regem H.291

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Concert Spirituel, Le
Hervé Niquet

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Hervé Niquet returns to the sacred music of the French Baroque in the grand manner: the ceremonial masterpiece of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's concertante Missa Assumpta est Maria, written for solo and choral voices with orchestral accompaniment, a clear reflection of the composer's mature style, written in the last decade of his life. Maturity definitely comes through also in Niquet's interpretation (and this is his fifth recording of music by Charpentier for Glossa alone): a sureness of touch in this repertoire is underpinned by a painstaking scrutiny of the sources, allowing the French conductor to make some original choices for the interpolations within the Mass Ordinary sections - instrumental and vocal in symphonies and motets. Zest, vigour and lightness of touch remain potent elements of Niquet's approach for the music of this most spectacular of French composers. This sense of understanding for the style which will also be applied shortly for the little-known five-voice Requiem of Charpentier's contemporary, Pierre Bouteiller - but which Niquet describes as "a diamond, an incredible jewel of our culture." Niquet's indefatigable approach to the music of the French Baroque and Classical eras extends currently also to the operatic world. After the success of his revival of the 300 year-old opera Sémélé by Marin Marais, he and Le Concert Spirituel turn next to André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry…

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June 2009

…is musically and interpretatively satisfying. Le Concert Spirituel possess a fluency which complements the graceful eloquence of Charpentier's style.

August 2009

Niquet's performance is a fitting reflection of the music's magnitude. Perhaps the epithet is "austere", but it isn't the austerity of unbending rigour. Instead he finds within the discipline he imposes, the qualities of robustness (Kyrie 1), weightiness (Christe), contemplation (Kyrie 2) and gravity (Credo) that are extracted from other sections as well.

8th May 2009

The profuse material makes it anything but austere, yet its very intricacy creates a mood of implacable otherworldliness that is uncompromising and, at times, even forbidding...The sound is occasionally reverberant but this is an extraordinary experience - daunting, riveting and unique.

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