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Browse: Couperin, F - Trois Leçons de Ténèbres

Composer: François Couperin (1668–1733)Genre: Choral
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Showing 1 - 9 of 9 results
  • Emma Kirkby (soprano) with Jakob Lindberg (lute), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Anthony Rooley (lute), Agnès Mellon (soprano), John Abberger (oboe), Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore), Lucas Harris (lute) & Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)

    London Baroque, Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra...

    …it's often in the modest-looking pieces that she's at her most compelling. Robert Johnson's Full Fathom Five is 109 seconds of breathtaking stillness and beauty, Böddecker's Natus est Jesu... More…

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    4 CDs

    Original price ($30.00) Reduced price $24.00

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    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Lynda Sayce (theorbo), Robert King (chamber organ), Susanne Heinrich (viol)

    King's Consort

    The two singers complement each other beautifully in the final setting, Kielland's reedy voice, with its somewhat androgynous quality, throwing Sampson's crystalline soprano into high relief... More…

    CD

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  • No digital booklet included

  • Emma Kirkby and Agnès Mellon (sopranos), Charles Medlam (bass viol) & Terence Charlston (organ)

    Couperin's Leçons de ténèbres are justly celebrated, their intense yet intimate sound-world reflecting both the agony and the ecstasy of these texts. …the crystalline purity of Emma Kirkby's... More…

    CD

    Original price ($15.00) Reduced price $12.00

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    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Pierre Hantai (harpsichord), Fabio Biondi (violin), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo), Jordi Savall (bass viol), H. Smith (lute), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Blandine Verlet (harpsichord), Michel Chapuis (organ), John Elwes (tenor), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Gerard Lesne (counter-tenor), Joseph Cabre...

    No digital booklet included

  • Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Elizabeth Watts (sopranos)

    La Nuova Musica, David Bates

    Crowe here offers an intense and dramatic reading of the first Leçon … Elizabeth Watts takes centre stage in the second setting – her voice plummy and voluptuous … The two join in an impassioned... More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), Laurence Cummings (organ)

    Theatre of Early Music

    Only three of Couperin's claimed nine Leçons survive. They are exquisite works, a rare blend of cool plainchant, French decoration and Italian passion. Countertenors Robin Blaze and Daniel... More…

    CD

    Original price ($15.00) Reduced price $12.00

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    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Dorothée Leclair, Juliette Perette & Eugénie Warnier (soloists)

    Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, Emmanuel Mandrin

    …an affecting devotional feel, above all in the gently voiced choral items. More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Raphaël Perulli (viola da gamba), Michel Chapuis (organ)

    No digital booklet included