Les Voix Baroques

Carissimi Oratorios

1 CD / ATMA / 2010-02-23

Works: Giacomo Carissimi: Jonas; Jephte; Ezechia, oratorio for 5 voices, 2 violins & continuo; Job, oratorio for 3 voices & continuo (doubtful)
Performers: Balzer, Colin; Duncan, Tyler; Keohane, Maria; LeBlanc, Suzie [Soprano Vocals]; Thompson, Sumner; Webster, Catherine; White, Matthew [Countertenor Vocal]; Wiliford, Lawrence
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Ensemble: Les Voix Baroques

Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674) was the greatest exponent of the Latin sacred historia (oratorio). He spent his whole life in Rome as maestro di cappella at...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Québec, Canada (01/06/2009-01/08/2009)....continue...

Jewels of the Renaissance Era

1 CD / Analekta / 2008-08-01

Works: Thoinot Arbeau: Branle des chevaulx; Anonymous, Spanish: Propinan de Melyor, for ensemble (Colombina Songbook); Antony Holborne: The Funerals and Galliards, for mute cornett & 4 violas da gamba; Engl...
Performers: Beauséjour, Luc; Bouchard, Antoine; Mercer, Shannon [Soprano]; Michaud, Natalie; Soly, Geneviève; White, Matthew [Countertenor Vocal]
Conductors: ; Jackson, Christopher; Patenaude, Gilbert; Tinsley, James
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Masques (Classical); Les Voix Baroques; Niagara Brass Ensemble; Strada; Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal

During the Renaissance period, the philosophical and artistic values of classical Greek and Roman antiquity were revived and combined with new attitudes and beliefs. Analektas...continue...

Italian Oratorios / Matthew White, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik

2 CD / Analekta / 2008-08-01

Works: Jan Dismas Zelenka: Gesú al Calvario, oratorio for soloists, chorus, instruments & continuo, ZWV 62; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for strings & continuo in C major, RV 114; Juditha triumphans, RV 6...
Performers: Beausejour, Luc; Dubeau, Angele; Dyachkov, Yegor; Ehnes, James [Violin]; Lamon, Jeanne; Laurel, Eduard; Lefevre; Michaud, Natalie; Saulnier, Jean; Soly, Genevieve; White, Matthew [Countertenor Vocal]
Conductors: ; Talmi, Yoav
Ensemble: ; Gryphon Trio; L'Ensemble des Idées heureuses ; Les Voix Baroques

This recording offers a sampling of the riches to be found in the Italian Oratorio repertoire, as composed in Rome and Venice as well as...continue...

Elegia / Matthew White and Les Voix Baroques

1 CD / Analekta / 2008-08-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 82, "Ich habe genug" BWV 82; Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Balletti Lamentabili à 4, suite for violin, 2 violas & continuo in E minor, C. 59; Johann Christoph...
Performers: White, Matthew [Countertenor Vocal]
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Ensemble: Les Voix Baroques

"Les Voix Baroque are excellent throughout, as accompanists and on their own in the striking instrumental laments by Biber and Schmelzer. Both performances are richly-shaded...continue...

Scarlatti: Disperato Amore / White, Les Voix Baroques

1 CD / Analekta / 2008-08-01

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Ombre tacite e sole, chamber cantata for soprano, 2 violins, viola & continuo; Bella quanto crudel spietata Irene, chamber cantata for soprano & continuo; Sonata in A minor; Non...
Performers: White, Matthew [Countertenor Vocal]
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Ensemble: Les Voix Baroques

World-renowned counter-tenor Matthew White is the programming director for Montreal's award-winning ensemble Les Voix Baroques. Their historically informed new release is dedicate to the cantata,...continue...

Canticum canticorum / Les Voix Baroques

1 CD / ATMA / 2008-03-25

Works: Orlande de Lassus: Veni in hortum meum, motet for 5 voices, M. ii (S. v/120); Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Osculetur me osculo oris sui; Heinrich Schütz: Anima mea liquefacta est; Ego dormi...
Conductors: White, Matthew
Ensemble: Les Voix Baroques

"The instrumental accompaniments (and one ensemble-only selection--a Passacaille by Marin Marais) are first-rate, consistently complementary to the voices, and everything is expertly captured in the...continue...

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri / Les Voix Baroques

1 CD / ATMA / 2007-09-25

Works: Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, cantata in 7 sections for SSATB voices, 2 violins, 5 violas da gamba, violone &
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Ensemble: Les Voix Baroques

Though his works are not as widely performed, Buxtehude's genius is comparable to that of Bach's. His 1680 Membra Jesu nostri is a remarkable cycle...continue...