Couperin - Trois Lecons de Tenebres
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Label: Vivat
Cat No: VIVAT102
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 25th March 2013
Contents
Works
Lecons de Tenebres (3)Magnificat anima mea
Motet pour le jour de Paques: Victoria, Christo resurgenti
Chaconne in A major
Tombeau pour Monsieur de Saint-Colombe
Prelude in E minor
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Susanne Heinrich (viol)
King’s Consort
Conductor
Robert KingWorks
Lecons de Tenebres (3)Magnificat anima mea
Motet pour le jour de Paques: Victoria, Christo resurgenti
Chaconne in A major
Tombeau pour Monsieur de Saint-Colombe
Prelude in E minor
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Susanne Heinrich (viol)
King’s Consort
Conductor
Robert KingAbout
Couperin’s three “Leçons” for Holy Week are vividly atmospheric, highly coloured, richly dissonant, and deeply melancholy, presenting music of an intensity that is quite unique in Baroque sacred repertoire. The third Leçon is an especial jewel, with gloriously intertwining vocal lines.
Alongside the three extraordinary “Leçons” come two further substantial vocal duets by Couperin: a joyous Easter motet and a fine setting of the Magnificat.
The full-length 79’40” disc also includes stunning solo instrumental tracks, with Gramophone award-winning viol player Susanne Heinrich performing music by Marin Marais and Monsieur de Ste-Colombe (composers featured in the film “Tous les Matins du Monde”).
Recorded at “low” French baroque pitch, A=392, giving unparalleled richness to the vocal and instrumental sonorities, with high quality documentation and first-rate engineering.
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