Charpentier, Marc-Antoine > Vocal

Noel: Music for the Season by Charpentier, Fauré, Gounod, Poulenc, Langlais et al.

1 CD / Westminister Choir College / 2011-11-15

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: In Nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum; Christmas Traditional: Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (Whence is that goodly fragrance?) (French); Bring a Torch, ...
Performers: Aronson, Justine; Batsios, Alexandra; Carruth, Amy; Cowan, Ken; Cowan, Lisa; Davis, Trey; Edmonds, David [Percussion]; Gillespie, Fiona; Heijink, Hank; Jackson, Chris [Bass vocals]; Larmore, Jennifer...
Conductors: Miller, Joe
Ensemble: ; Westminster Choir

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Charpentier: Pastorale de Noel / Les Arts Florissants

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-11-08

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Pastorale sur la naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, for 4 voices, chorus, instruments & conti; In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum, histoire sacr&...
Performers: Cantor, Philippe; Feldman, Jill [Soprano Vocals]; Laplenie, Michel; Lestringant, Etienne; Mellon, Agnes [Soprano Vocal]; Sicot, Antoine; Visse, Dominique [Countertenor Vocal]
Conductors: Christie, William
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants

Christmas Carols / Andrew Parrott, The Taverner Consort

4 CD / Virgin Classics / 2007-11-06

Works: William Billings: Methinks I See a Heavenly Host; A Virgin Unspotted; John Foster: While shepherds watched their flocks by night (A 2nd Collection of Sacred Music. York, ca. 1820); Joan Cererols: Mar...
Performers: Ardagh-Walter, Patrick; Blackadder, David; Bonner, Tessa; Boothby, Richard [Viola da Gamba]; Carolan, Lucy; Carroll, Paul; Charlesworth, Stephen; Consort, Taverner; Cooper, Peter [violin]; Daniels, C...
Conductors: Parrott, Andrew
Ensemble: Taverner Choir; Taverner Consort; Taverner Players

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Vêpres pour Saint Louis

1 CD / Alpha Productions / 2007-09-01

Works: Guillaume Gabriel Nivers: Suite for organ on the 1st tone; Fugue grave, for organ; Prelude for organ on the 2nd tone; Anonymous, French: Deus in adjutorium (faux-bourdon); Marc-Antoine Charpentier: D...
Performers: Buet, Alain; Desenclos, Frederic; Lusson, Matthieu; Perrot, Benjamin; Saito, Yuka; Salles, Alexandre
Conductors: Schneebeli, Olivier
Ensemble: Versailles Baroque Music Center

Charpentier: Sacred Music Vol 4 / Le Concert Spirituel

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-02-01

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Work(s); La prière à la Vierge du Père Bernard, motet for 3 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments & continuo,; Litanies de la Vierge, motet for 6 voices, choru...
Performers: Niquet, Herve
Conductors:
Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra & Chorus

Marc-Antoine Charpentier is recognized today as the greatest French composer of the 17th century. His sacred music is full of dramatic harmonic tension, contrasts and...continue...

Charpentier: Nöels & Christmas Motets / Aradia Ensemble

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-11-01

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe de minuit, for 5 voices, chorus, instruments & continuo, H. 9; Noëls pour les instruments, H 534; In nativitatem Domini canticum, Christmas motet for soprano, cou...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Aradia Ensemble

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The music is performed at baroque pitch. All the singing is deliciously clear-toned and forthright, the accompaniments on period instruments are stylish and the...continue...

Saints & Sinners / Jos van Veldhoven, Cappella Figuralis

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1998-11-01

Works: Giovanni Antonio Grossi: Quo Domine, motet for 5 voices (from Celeste tesoro), Op. 5; Benedictus a Sancto Josepho: Missa sanctis ornata canticis, mass for voices, chorus & orchestra, Op. 9; Encomis s...
Conductors: Veldhoven, Jos van
Ensemble: Capella Figuralis

Charpentier: Te Deum, Mass, etc / Niquet, Concert Spirituel

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-03-13

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum à 4, motet for 5 voices, chorus, strings & continuo, H. 147; Messe "Kyrie eleison," for voices, instruments & continuo, H. 1; Deus judicium tuum regi da, motet ...
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé
Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra & Chorus

"If this early Mass by Charpentier has been previously recorded, then it has certainly passed me by...The Mass is harmonically richly inventive with passages of...continue...