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Lalande - Majeste: Grands Motets for the Sun King | Alpha ALPHA968

Lalande - Majeste: Grands Motets for the Sun King

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA968

Barcode: 3760014199684

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 20th April 2018

Contents

Artists

Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano)
Dagmar Saskova (soprano)
Sean Clayton (haute-contre)
Cyril Auvity (tenor)
Andre Morsch (bass)
Ensemble Aedes
Le Poeme Harmonique

Conductor

Vincent Dumestre

Works

Lalande, Michel-Richard de

Deitatis majestatem, S3
Ecce nunc benedicte, S8
Te Deum laudamus, S32

Artists

Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano)
Dagmar Saskova (soprano)
Sean Clayton (haute-contre)
Cyril Auvity (tenor)
Andre Morsch (bass)
Ensemble Aedes
Le Poeme Harmonique

Conductor

Vincent Dumestre

About

In 1683, Michel-Richard de Lalande entered the Chapelle Royale as a sous-maître after receiving the support of Louis XIV in a formidable recruitment competition. Still only twenty-five years old, the young composer was swiftly to become established as the King’s favourite and accede to the most coveted posts at court in a career spanning almost forty years. Above all, Louis included him in the consultations for the construction of the new Chapelle Royale, adjacent to Versailles Palace. As the arches gradually rose skywards, Lalande composed and revised his motets, which give expression to the then-peerless grandeur of the realm, while at the same time testifying to the chapel’s incomparable acoustics. His works – settings of psalms, hymns, the Te Deum – record the atmosphere at court in the liturgy, in times of both trouble and rejoicing.

Following their earlier recording of Te Deum settings by Lully and Charpentier at the Chapelle Royale, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique have now returned to Versailles to tackle the music Lalande composed for that extraordinary place. Alongside the grands motets Deitatis majestatem and Ecce nunc benedicite, with their synthesis of royal pomp and the language of opera, they offer the deeply moving Miserere and the most grandiose Te Deum performed in the reign of Louis XIV, the Te Deum of the King himself.

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