Les Agrémens & Florence Malgoire - Charpentier - Pour un reposoir, Noels sur les instruments - Sonate à huit (2013) [Hi-Res]

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01. Pour un reposoir, H. 508: I. Ouverture
02. Pour un reposoir, H. 508: II. Tantum ergo
03. Pour un reposoir, H. 508: III. Tantum ergo (Gregorian)
04. Pour un reposoir, H. 508: IV. Fugue
05. Pour un reposoir, H. 508: V. Genitori (Gregorian)
06. Pour un reposoir, H. 508: VI. Amen
07. Pour un reposoir, H. 508: VII. Allemande grave
08. Chantons je vous en prie
09. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Les Bourgeois de Châtre (H. 534/1)
10. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Ô créateur (H. 531/1)
11. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Vous qui désirez sans fin (H. 531/3)
12. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Laissez paîtres vos bêtes (H. 531/2)
13. A la venue de Noël
14. Joseph est bien marié
15. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Or nous dites Marie (H. 534/4)
16. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Á la venue de Noël (H. 534/5)
17. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Une jeune pucelle (H. 534/6)
18. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Joseph est bien marié (H. 534/3)
19. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Où s'en vont ces gais bergers (H. 534/2)
20. Une jeune pucelle
21. Noëls sur les instruments, H. 531, 534: Les bourgeois de Châtre (H. 534/7)
22. Sonate à huit, H. 548: I. Grave
23. Sonate à huit, H. 548: II. Récit de la viole seule-Sarabande
24. Sonate à huit, H. 548: III. Récit de la basse de violon-Bourrée
25. Sonate à huit, H. 548: IV. Gavotte-Gigue-Passacaille-Chaconne

The instrumental works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier are familiar to very few people. A large number of them were composed for use in churches, the most famous of these being the Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues that has already been recorded by Jean Tubéry and La Fenice for Ricercar (RIC 245).

Charpentier composed the Sonate à huit around 1685, at a time when various private musical societies were exploring the Italian sonata style. Charpentier discovered this style at the same time as François Couperin, who also set about composing sonatas in the Italian style. Couperin’s sonatas were,recorded splendidly last year by Les Dominos for Ricercar (RIC 330); the recording was praised highly by the musical press, being awarded 5 Diapasons and an FFFF by Telerama. Charpentier’s Sonate à huit blends the Italian style with the French suite of dances and as such is one of the masterpieces of instrumental music of the French baroque.

The symphonies Pour un Reposoir were intended to accompany an outdoor procession, an organ naturally not being available. The greater part of the CD, however, is taken up by the Noëls pour les Instruments which Charpentier set for instrumental ensemble and organ. Our interpretation of this work is based on the original manuscript and respects the marked instrumentation as well as Charpentier’s own specifications for organ registrations. We have also recorded the original versions of the above-mentioned Christmas carols, complete with their many verses as they appeared in French collections published at the beginning of the 18th century.

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