Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Mass & Te Deum for Eight Voices (2006)

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Title: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Mass & Te Deum for Eight Voices
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Glossa
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:19:33
Total Size: 456 Mb
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Tracklist:

01. Prelude - 00:00:53
02. Kyrie - 00:01:09
03. Sinfonie apres le rer Kyrie - 00:00:59
04. Kyrie: Christe eleison - 00:02:33
05. Sinfonie apres le Christe - 00:01:27
06. Prelude da capo - 00:01:04
07. Kyrie da capo - 00:01:32
08. Sinfonie pour finir le Kyrie - 00:01:52
09. Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo - 00:01:11
10. Et in terra pax - 00:00:43
11. Laudamus te - 00:01:16
12. Gloria: Domine Deus - 00:03:13
13. Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi - 00:02:17
14. Gloria: Quoniam tu solus Sanctus - 00:02:07
15. Credo - 00:02:54
16. Et incarnatus est - 00:01:17
17. Credo: Crucifixus - 00:03:34
18. Credo: Et resurrexit - 00:01:50
19. Cujus regni non erit finis - 00:02:48
20. Confiteor unum Baptisma - 00:02:47
21. Sanctus: Premier Sanctus - 00:00:54
22. Sanctus: Second Sanctus - 00:00:57
23. Sanctus: Troisieme Sanctus - 00:01:07
24. Sanctus: Pleni sunt coeli - 00:01:26
25. Agnus Dei: Premier Agnus Dei - 00:02:19
26. Agnus Dei: Second Agnus Dei - 00:02:57
27. Domine salvum de la messe a 8, H. 283 - 00:03:59
28. Prelude - 00:01:11
29. Te Deum laudamus - 00:01:12
30. Te aeternum - 00:01:00
31. Tibi cherubim - 00:01:24
32. Pleni sunt caeli - 00:01:17
33. Te gloriosus - 00:02:45
34. Te per orbem - 00:00:47
35. Venerandum tuum verum - 00:01:50
36. Tu, Rex gloriae - 00:06:10
37. Judex crederis - 00:03:18
38. Aeterna fac - 00:01:27
39. Dignare domine - 00:03:24
40. In te Domine - 00:02:43

Performers:
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet

This disc couples two magnificent sacred choral works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier: his lavish Messe and his spectacular Te Deum. Both works were commissioned by the composer's patrons, the then-ascendant Jesuits of Paris, and they are less deeply religious works than grandly ceremonial works of unexcelled splendor, qualities that Hervé Niquet, director of Le Concert Spirituel, embraces in this 2006 release. Recorded in stupendous sound by Glossa, Niquet leads Le Concert Spirituel in performances of immense pomp and enormous circumstances. A seasoned veteran of many labels who has recorded much of Charpentier's sacred music before -- along with lots of Lully, a fair amount of Boismortier, some Desmarets, and even a bit of Campra -- Niquet is a master at the aesthetics of the sacred music of the French Baroque and he knows when to stress the austere and when to surrender to the ceremonial. With his superbly trained and deeply dedicated chorus and orchestra of Le Concert Spirituel, Niquet creates performances that awe and astound. While this may or may not be an actual spiritual experience, it is an amazing musical experience.