Charpentier: Litanies de la Vierge

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I’d be tempted to make this my disc of the month… the programming is good... the instrumentation is appropriate and unfussy and all the performers really know what they’re doing both as individuals... — Early Music Review, October 2013 More…

Release Date: 29th Jul 2013
Catalogue No: HMC902169
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 60 minutes

Charpentier, M-A: Miserere, H. 193

Work length25:09

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

I. Miserere mei Deus

Track length11:13

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II. Auditui meo dabis gaudiam

Track length3:21

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III. Ne projicias me

Track length3:23

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IV. Libera me

Track length2:49

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V. Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus

Track length4:23

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Charpentier, M-A: Antienne H526

Work length2:37

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

Charpentier, M-A: Annunciate superi, H. 333

Work length10:36

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

I. Annunciate superi

Track length6:14

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II. Hæc enim Virgo

Track length2:47

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III. Psallite ergo populi

Track length1:35

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Charpentier, M-A: Ouverture, H. 536

Work length5:30

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

Charpentier, M-A: Litanies de la Vierge, H83

Work length16:32

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

I. Kyrie eleison

Track length5:14

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II. Speculum justitiæ

Track length2:14

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III. Salus infirmorum

Track length5:17

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IV. Agnus Dei

Track length3:47

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In their first release on harmonia mundi France, Sébastien Daucé and his musicians present a sumptuous interpretation of the six-voice motets composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the House of Guise. These works, headed by the 'Miserere', constitute an unexpected parenthesis in the music of the Grand Siècle. The creative genius, the inwardness and the intense fervour of a composer surrounded by his faithful company of singers and instrumentalists speak to us all the more intimately because Charpentier appears here as both copyist (the surviving scores are in his handwriting) and performer: he sang countertenor.

Since its formation in 2008, the Ensemble Correspondances has devoted itself chiefly to French sacred music of the 17th century. Brought together by Sébastien Daucé during their studies at the Conservatoire de Lyon, the musicians of Correspondances pursue this work (focusing notably on Marc-Antoine Charpentier) with infectious enthusiasm. Its most recent engagements have taken it to Royaumont, Ambronay, Lanvellec and Pontoise festivals, Rome, Hamburg and Hong Kong.

After postgraduate study with Yves Rechsteiner and Françoise Lengellé at the CNSM de Lyon, Sébastien Daucé went on to play under the direction of such conductors as Kenneth Weiss, Gabriel Garrido, Geoffroy Jourdain (Les Cris de Paris) and Raphaël Pichon (Ensemble Pygmalion). For the past few years he has dedicated himself to the music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, three of whose operas he edited in collaboration with William Christie. His first two recordings with the Ensemble Correspondances, both for Zig-Zag Territoires, earned him widespread praise in the specialist press, with such distinctions as the Choc de Classica, Diapason Découverte, Coup de Coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros and **** in Fono Forum.

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Early Music Review October 2013

I’d be tempted to make this my disc of the month… the programming is good... the instrumentation is appropriate and unfussy and all the performers really know what they’re doing both as individuals and as ensemble members… at a time when Charpentier releases are less frequent than they once were this is one to treasure.

November 2013

On this evidence, Daucé has a tender affinity for Charpentier's exquisitely crafted music.

October 2013

All three motets breathe the same air of strong but understated devotion. It is really impressive and profoundly beautiful...For decades now harmonia mundi has served very well, the music of one France’s greatest composers. This luminous recording by Ensemble Correspondence adds considerably to that proud record of achievement.

27th November 2013

This disc is a treasure, because of the repertoire and because of the performances. The Ensemble Correspondances delivers incisive performances in which the qualities of Charpentier's music are impressively exposed. The singers have nice and supple voices and are very responsive to the text. Thanks to their precise intonation the harmonic pecularities come off perfectly.

25th August 2013

One of France's best new early music groups, Ensemble Correspondances, shows total understanding of his idiom and achieves a perfect balance of clean but expressive voices with crisp and precise instrumental ensemble.

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