Gilles, Jean > Countertenor

Gilles: Requiem / Joel Cohen

1 CD / Apex / 2011-07-26

Works: Gregorian Chant: Requiem aeternam, introit in mode 6 (Liber Usualis 1807a); Absolve, Domine, animas omnium, tractus in mode 8 (Liber Usualis No 1809); Dies irae, dies illa, sequence in mode 1; Vere d...
Performers: Azema, Anne; Hite, William; Mason, Jean; Nirouet, Jean
Conductors: Laplénie, Michel; Cohen, Joel [Early Music]
Ensemble: Boston Camerata; Ensemble de Tambours Provencaux

Jean Gilles' Messe des Morts (Requiem Mass) was one of the most famous and frequently-heard works of eighteenth-century France. Thanks to the Esemble Sagittarius and...continue...
Recording information: Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur, Aix en Provence (07/16/1989-07/17/1989); Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur, Aix en Provence (08/08/1992)....continue...

Jean Gilles: Messe des morts / Philippe Herreweghe, et al

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2010-07-13

Works: Jean Gilles: Requiem (Messe des morts); Michel Corrette: Le Carillon des Morts
Performers: Hill, Martyn; Kooy, Peter [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Nirouet, Jean; Rodde, Anne-Marie; Studer, Ulrich
Conductors: Goebel, Reinhard

Jean Gilles, born in Avignon in 1668, enrolled in the cathedral school in Aix-en-Provence. Under the tutelage of Guillaume Poitevin, who nurtured his unmistakable talents,...continue...
Recording information: Karmelieter Kerk, Ghent, Belgium (01/1981)....continue...