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Nouveau Monde: Baroque Arias and Songs by Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and George Frideric Handel / Patricia Petibon, soprano

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-10-30

Works: José de Nebra: Vendado es amor, no es ciego; Henry Le Bailly: Yo soy la locura (Passacalle de La Folie); Anonymous: Cachua, improvisation on a melody recogida by Baltasar Martínez Compa...
Performers: Almada, Lincoln; Grare, Joël; Greenlaw, Kevin [Baritone vocal]; Hamon, Pierre; Mascardi, Evangelina; Petibon, Patricia; Rodriguez, Josias
Conductors: Marcon, Andrea
Ensemble: ; La Cetra

Admired for her remarkable creative imagination and exemplary musicianship, soprano Patricia Petibon, in her newest album for Deutsche Grammophon, offers a treasure-trove of fascinating Baroque...continue...
Recording information: Martinskirche in Basel, Switzerland (02/2012)....continue...

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

Praised by American Record Guide as the "gold standard for American academic choirs," the Westminster Choir has performed and recorded with virtually every major orchestra...continue...
Recording information: The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine and St. G (04/2010)....continue...

Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-03-03

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Troisième leçon de ténèbres du mercredi saint, motet for 5 voices, instruments & continuo, H. 135; Troisième leçon de ténèbres du jeu...
Performers: Cuiller, Daniel; Delume, Caroline; Duffaud, Francoise; Gervreau, Alain; Paulet, Stephanie; Perrot, Benjamin; Queyras, Gesine; Zemanov, Helena
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

Recording information: Église Notre Dame du Liban, Paris, France (03/2001)....continue...

Charpentier: Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy / Niquet

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-03-03

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe pour Monsieur de Mauroy, for 6 voices, chorus, instruments & continuo, H. 6
Performers: Bardon, Emmanuel; Boragno, Pierre; Boulay, Raphael; Bouquey, Emmanuel; Bouture, Didier; Briand, Olivier; Chapuis, Michel; Cohen-Akenine, Patrick [Violin]; Coville, Annie; Delume, Caroline; Gaillard, ...
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

BBC Music Magazine
Le Concert Spirituel expertly draws us into his heartfelt harmonies in a fabulous recording.
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Recording information: Abbey, St.-Michel-en-Thiérache, Aisne, France (06/1999)....continue...

Charpentier: Acteon; Orphee descendant aux enfers

1 CD / CPO / 2010-11-16

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon, pastorale for chorus, strings & continuo, H. 481; Orphée descendant aux enfers, cantata for 3 voices, instruments & continuo, H. 471; La pierre philosophal...
Performers: Boston Early Music Festival Chorus; Laquerre, Olivier; O'Dette, Paul; Stubbs, Stephen [Lute]

During recent years CPO's recordings of the baroque operas 'Ariadne' by Conradi and 'Thésée' and 'Psyché' by Lully have received Grammy nominations in the Best...continue...
Recording information: Sendessaal, Bremen (09/28/2009-09/30/2009)....continue...

Charpentier: Messe & Te Deum à huit voix / Niquet

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa Import / 2010-06-29

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes, for 8 voices, chorus, 2 flutes, strings & continuo, H. 3; Domine salvum fac regem, motet for 5 voices, double chorus, string...
Performers: Arnould, Benoît; Bayodi, Hanna; Delume, Caroline; Helstroffer, Bruno; Moscardo, Massimo; Revidat, Stephanie; Saint-Yves, François
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé
Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra & Chorus

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Le Concert des Violes

1 CD / Ricercar / 2010-02-09

Works: Louis Couperin: Fantaisies (2) for viols (Pièces pour les violes); Simphonies; Fantasy for Organ [1651]; Deuxième fantaisie à cinque, for strings (Fantaisies for strings); Eustac...
Performers: Garcia Alarcon, Leonardo; Vanmarsenille, Edward [Organ]; Zonderman, Bernard
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Mare Nostrum

A wonderful recording featuring Italian and French composers, who use the violin in very different ways, this recording comes to a fitting end with the...continue...
Recording information: Bolland, Église Saint-Apollinaire (09/2008/05/2009)....continue...

Il Pianto d'Orfeo - Monteverdi, Peri, Caccini

1 CD / New Classical Adventure / 2009-10-27

Works: Lorenzo Allegri: Sinfonia per il Gran Principe, for lute; Primo Ballo della notte d'amore; Jacopo Peri: Euridice; Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; Giulio Caccini: L'Euridice; Marc-Antoine Charpentier: La...
Performers: Katschner, Wolfgang; Rensburg, Kobie van; Vieweg, Matthias
Conductors: Katschner, Wolfgang
Ensemble: Lautten Compagney

"Orfeo moved us because of being a human", wrote Monteverdi to Alessandro Striggio in a very often quoted letter from the 9th of February 1616....continue...
Recording information: Deutschlandradio, Studio 10 im Funkhaus Berlin (02/03/2004-02/06/2004)....continue...

Charpentier: Rendez-mois mes plaisirs, etc; Tunder, Grandi, Monteverdi, etc / Ledroit, Ricercar Consort

1 CD / Ricercar / 2009-03-10

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Rendez-moi mes plaisirs, air for alto (or countertenor) & continuo, H. 463; Orphée descendant aux enfers, cantata for 3 voices, instruments & continuo, H. 471; Airs on ...
Performers: Bona, Jacques; Foccroulle, Bernard; Ledroit, Henri; Malfeyt, Philippe; Mey, Guy de; Pierlot, Philippe
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ricercar Consort

Henri Ledroit personifies both the joy of singing and the intelligent delivery of the text, and these qualities, combined with his richly warm and delicate...continue...

L'Esprit Galant / Johannette Zomer, Fred Jacobs

1 CD / Channel Classics / 2008-01-08

Works: Antoine Boësset: Noires forêts; Que servent tes conseils; Me veux-tu voir mourir; Ennemond Gaultier: Courante in C minor for 2 Lute "L'Immortelle"; Germain Pinel: Prélude (from Manusc...
Performers: Jacobs, Fred [Theorbo]; Zomer, Johannette [Soprano Vocal]

The latter half of the seventeenth century saw a great flowering of the short and succinct "air serieux" - the most common sub-category of the...continue...

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