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Twenty-Five Years! - Marais, Charpentier, Handel, Purcell et al. / Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet

2 CD / Glossa / 2012-10-06

Works: Pierre Bouteiller: Missa pro defunctis; Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria; Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy; Messe à huit voix; Te Deum à huit voix; George Frederick Handel: Mus...
Performers: Bayodi, Hanna; Christoyannis, Tassis; Cornwell, Joseph; d'Oustrac, Stéphanie; Duthoit, Marie Louise; Fernandes, Joao; Gens, Véronique; Harvey, Peter Harvey; Mechaly, Galle; Mercer, Shan...
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé
Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra

26 years ago, Hervé Niquet recalls having become so incensed with the disparaging remarks directed at French music and the Lamentations of Jean Gilles in...continue...

Marais: Sémélé / Niquet, Mercer, Tauran, Azzaretti, et al

2 CD / Glossa / 2008-04-11

Works: Marin Marais: Sémélé
Performers: Azzaretti, Jael; Dahlin, Anders J.; Mercer, Shannon [soprano]; Tauran, Bénédicte; Thébault, Hjördis
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé
Ensemble: Le Concert spirituel

Sunday Times
Niquet's Concert Spirituel revels in this wonderfully representational music; the cast, headed by Shannon Mercer in the title role, with Thomas Dolié as Jupiter...continue...