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Charpentier: Messe En La Memoire

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2010-05-18

Works: Louis Couperin: Les Carillons de Paris, for organ (Pièces d'orgue, no 140); Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe pour les trépassés, for 5 voices, chorus, instruments & continuo, H. 2; Mote...
Performers: Bertin, Pascal; Mammel, Hans-Jorg; Sarragosse, Jean-Claude
Conductors: Tubéry, Jean
Ensemble: Ensemble la Fenice (France)

"Not a particularly upbeat CD, but neither is it glumly mournful, and the works are ample demonstration of the intense expressiveness of Charpentier's imagination and...continue...