Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria, etc / Hervé Niquet, Le Concert spirituel, et al

Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria, etc, / Hervé Niquet, Le, Concert spi

Label: Glossa
Catalog No: GLS 921617
Format: CD
Release Date: 2009-04-13
Number of Discs: 1
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 675754014995

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Notes & Reviews:

Herve 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. Zest, vigour and lightness of touch remain potent elements of Niquet's approach for the music of this most spectacular of French composers.

BBC Music Magazine
Is musically and interpretatively satisfying. Le Concert Spirituel possess a fluency which complements the graceful eloquence of Charpentier's style.

The Guardian
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.

Gramophone Magazine
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.



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>Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Missa Assumpta est Maria, H 11
  • Performers: Benoît Arnould (Baritone); Hanna Bayodi (Soprano); Romain Champion (Tenor); François-Nicolas Geslot (Countertenor)
  • Conductor: Hervé Niquet
  • Ensemble: Le Concert spirituel
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Choral
  • Written: 1698-1702

>Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Domine salvum fac regem, H 303
  • Performers: Benoît Arnould (Baritone); Hanna Bayodi (Soprano); Romain Champion (Tenor); François-Nicolas Geslot (Countertenor)
  • Conductor: Hervé Niquet
  • Ensemble: Le Concert spirituel
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Written: 17th Century

>Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Domine salvum fac regem, H 291
  • Performers: Benoît Arnould (Baritone); Hanna Bayodi (Soprano); François-Nicolas Geslot (Countertenor); Romain Champion (Tenor)
  • Conductor: Hervé Niquet
  • Ensemble: Le Concert spirituel
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Choral
  • Written: 1680s

>Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Motet a voix seule, H 361
  • Performers: Benoît Arnould (Baritone); Hanna Bayodi (Soprano); Romain Champion (Tenor); François-Nicolas Geslot (Countertenor)
  • Conductor: Hervé Niquet
  • Ensemble: Le Concert spirituel
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Choral

>Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Symphony pour un reposoir, H 508
  • Performers: Benoît Arnould (Baritone); Hanna Bayodi (Soprano); Romain Champion (Tenor); François-Nicolas Geslot (Countertenor)
  • Conductor: Hervé Niquet
  • Ensemble: Le Concert spirituel
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Orchestral
  • Written: circa ?1670

>Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : O salutaris Hostia, H 262
  • Performers: Romain Champion (Tenor); Benoît Arnould (Baritone); Hanna Bayodi (Soprano); François-Nicolas Geslot (Countertenor)
  • Conductor: Hervé Niquet
  • Ensemble: Le Concert spirituel
  • Period Time: Baroque