Louis-Nicolas Clérambault / Miserere - François Couperin / Leçons de ténèbres (Recording at La Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles) Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre

• 1 Miserere mei Deus 03:30
• 2 Quoniam iniquitatem meam 04:59
• 3 Asperges me hyssopo 03:57
• 4 Averte faciem tuam 03:49
• 5 Docebo iniquinos 03:49
• 6 Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium 06:02
• 7 Incipit Lamentation Jeremiae 02:41
• 8 Beth 03:48
• 9 Ghimel 01:51
• 10 Daleth 02:34
• 11 He 02:32
• 12 Jerusalem, convertere 02:58
• 13 Vau 01:54
• 14 Zain 03:13
• 15 Heth 01:46
• 16 Teth 02:40
• 17 Jerusalem, convertere 02:26
• 18 Jod 01:42
• 19 Caph 02:00
• 20 Lamed 02:32
• 21 Mem 01:45
• 22 Nun 01:48
• 23 Jerusalem, convertere 01:50
• Total Runtime 01:06:06

Info for Louis-Nicolas Clérambault / Miserere - François Couperin / Leçons de ténèbres (Recording at La Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles)

It seemed natural for Le Poème Harmonique, which has already recorded some of the greatest works in the 17th-century French sacred repertoire, to contribute to Alpha’s Versailles Collection by giving its vision of François Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres. To this it adds a work as masterful as it is forgotten: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s Miserere.

The Leçons de Ténèbres were written by François Couperin for the Holy Week liturgies of 1714, at the Abbey of Longchamp. They take up the Old Testament text from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, wherein the prophet deplores the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. In the Catholic tradition, they symbolize the solitude of Christ, abandoned by his apostles.

Isabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani, Claire Lefilliâtre and Vincent Dumestre give us an interpretation in which the affect is, of course, at the service of a rhetoric appropriate for the period and this repertoire whilst fully exploiting the lyric beauty of these works.

Hasnaa Bennani, soprano
Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano
Claire Lefilliâtre, mezzo-soprano
Sylvia Abramowicz, viola da gamba
Frédéric Rivoal, clavecin & organ
Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, conductor

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