Mondonville: Grands Motets

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György Vashegyi gives lots of orchestral detail and colour. — Choir & Organ, July/August 2016 More…

Release Date: 8th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: GCD923508
Label: Glossa
Length: 95 minutes

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Mondonville: De Profundis

Work length20:24

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Alain Buet (bass), Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Daniela Skorka (soprano)
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra
György Vashegyi
Recorded: 2-4 November 2015
Recording Venue: Bela Bartok National Concert Hall MUPA, Budapest Hungary

De profundis clamavi (Chorus)

Track length2:56

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Recitative: Fiant aures tuae (Bass)

Track length2:27

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Recitative: Quia apud te propitiatio (Counter-tenor)

Track length4:11

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A cusodia matutina (Chorus)

Track length2:13

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Recitative: Quia apud dominum (Soprano)

Track length1:56

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Recitative: Et ipse redimet Israel (Soprano, Chorus)

Track length2:47

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Requiem eternam (Chorus)

Track length3:54

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Mondonville: Magnus Dominus

Work length22:47

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Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Daniela Skorka (soprano)
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra
György Vashegyi
Recorded: 2-4 November 2015
Recording Venue: Bela Bartok National Concert Hall MUPA, Budapest Hungary

Recitative: Magnus Dominus (Counter-tenor, Chorus)

Track length4:50

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Recitative: Deus in domibus ejus cognoscetur (Soprano)

Track length3:21

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Ipsi videntes sic admirati sunt (Chorus)

Track length4:03

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Recitative: Secundum nomen tuum (Soprano)

Track length0:37

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Recitative: Laetetur mons Sion (Soprano, Chorus)

Track length2:53

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Duet: Quoniam hic est Deus (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)

Track length3:00

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Gloria Patri (Chorus)

Track length4:03

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Mondonville: Nisi Dominus

Work length17:51

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Alain Buet (bass), Daniela Skorka (soprano), Jeffrey Thompson (countertenor), Mathias Vidal (tenor)
Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir
György Vashegyi
Recorded: 2-4 November 2015
Recording Venue: Bela Bartok National Concert Hall MUPA, Budapest Hungary

Recitative: Nisi Dominus (Bass)

Track length2:58

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Vanum est vobis (Soprano, Bass, Chorus)

Track length2:05

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Recitative: Cum dederit dilectis (Counter-tenor)

Track length4:33

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Sicut sagittae (Chorus)

Track length3:03

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Duet: Beatus vir (Counter-tenor 1, Counter-tenor 2)

Track length1:30

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Air: Non confundetur (Bass, Chorus)

Track length3:42

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Mondonville: Cantate Domino

Work length34:46

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Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Daniela Skorka (soprano), Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Alain Buet (bass)
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra
György Vashegyi
Recorded: 2-4 November 2015
Recording Venue: Bela Bartok National Concert Hall MUPA, Budapest Hungary

Cantate Domino (Chorus)

Track length3:38

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Duet: Laetetur Israël (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)

Track length4:18

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Recitative: Adorate et invocate (Counter-tenor)

Track length3:13

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Recitative: Laudent nomen ejus (Counter-tenor, Chorus)

Track length3:16

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Recitative: Quia beneplacitum (Soprano)

Track length4:05

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Recitative: Exultabunt sancti in gloria (Bass)

Track length3:34

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Exaltationes (Chorus)

Track length3:26

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Trio: Ad alligandos Reges (Soprano, Counter-tenor, Bass)

Track length3:34

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Gloria Patri (Chorus)

Track length0:51

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Sicut erat in principio (Counter-tenor, Bass, Chorus)

Track length4:51

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Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville continued and developed the French tradition of the grand motet set in place by Lully and Lalande. Four of these motets have now been recorded for Glossa by György Vashegyi with a quintet of masterly soloists, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir. Vashegyi, who is fast making his name in French repertoire, has chosen the music of this underrated composer to follow up his Glossa recording of Rameau’s 'Les Fêtes de Polymnie'.

Mondonville was at the height of his career in Paris the second third of the 18th century, especially at the Concert Spirituel and with the Chambre and Chapelle du Roi. As well as operas, oratorios and instrumental music, he composed grands motets – spectacular religious works which were often performed in the public sphere. The four presented here on this two-disc set, De profundis, Magnus Dominus, Cantate Domino and Nisi Dominus are fine examples of Mondonville’s art, constantly displaying his taste for virtuosic scoring and tuneful, flowing melodies. The vocal soloists, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Daniela Skorka, Mathias Vidal, Jeffrey Thompson and Alain Buet are all well-versed in such demands, as are choir and orchestra. Louis Castelain, who has prepared editions for two of the motets, provides an illuminating survey of Mondonville’s life for this enthralling new recording made in Budapest under the auspices of the CMBV (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles).

Reviews

July/August 2016

György Vashegyi gives lots of orchestral detail and colour.

Classical Ear 5th July 2016

Well-heeled in the French Baroque, György Vashegyi’s effusive period-instrument Orfeo Orchestra and glowing Purcell Choir play its Handelian accents with all the gusto it merits … there is still much to enjoy in the serene melancholy of De Profundis, the glorious rhetoric of Magnus Dominus and graceful eloquence of Nisi Dominus.

Mondonville: Grands Motets

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