Michel-Richard de Lalande – Tenebræ

4 stars in Le Monde de la Musique
10 in Répertoire
Nominated for the Cannes Classical Awards 2004
4 stars in Goldberg
5 crotchets in Pizzicato (Germany)
C10 in Compact Disc Classics (Italy)
4 stars in Musica (Italy)

Michel-Richard de Lalande was one of the most influential and talented composers of sacred music at the court of Versailles in the early eighteenth century. He made major contributions to the corpus of sacred music for women’s voices with his Leçons de Ténèbres and Miserere, written ‘for the ladies of the Assumption and sung by the Misses De la Lande, to the admiration of all Paris’. Technically speaking these works are incontestably among his most highly developed pieces; they are also two of the most eloquent and expressive of de Lalande’s compositions.

Cast:
Claire Lefilliâtre soprano
Damien Guillon, Jean-Michel Fumas countertenors
Hugues Primard, Bruno Bonhoure tenors
Philippe Roche, Bernard Arrieta basses
Martin Bauer bass and treble viols
Kaori Uemura bass viol
Elisabeth Geiger organ and harpsichord
Vincent Dumestre theorbo; conductor
Eugène Green speaker (CD 2)

Programme:
Michel-Richard de Lalande (CD 1)
Miserere à voix seule
Troisième Leçon du Mercredy
Troisième Leçon du Jeudy
Troisième Leçon du Vendredy
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (CD 2)
Sermon sur la mort
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