Grand Motets Lorrains

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Christie's musicians are in particularly fine form, injecting the choral textures with supple rhythmic vigour and declaiming the solos with clarity and warmth. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2000 More…

Catalogue No: 8573802232
Label: Erato
Length: 67 minutes

Henry Desmarets: Desmarest

Work length44:10

$16.90

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Arnaud Marzorati (bass), Laurent Slaars (baritone), Paul Agnew (tenor), Rebecca Ockenden (soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie

Usquequo Domine : I "Usquequo Domine"

Track length6:47

$1.30

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Usquequo Domine : II "Quamdiu"

Track length3:33

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Usquequo Domine : III "Usquequo exaltabitur"

Track length2:43

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Usquequo Domine : IV "Illumina oculos meos"

Track length3:05

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Usquequo Domine : V "Qui tribulant me"

Track length1:41

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Usquequo Domine : VI "Exultabit cor meum"

Track length6:13

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Lauda Jerusalem : I "Lauda Jerusalem"

Track length3:13

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Lauda Jerusalem : II "Quoniam confortavit"

Track length2:37

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Lauda Jerusalem : III "Qui emittit"

Track length1:58

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Lauda Jerusalem : IV "Qui dat nivem sicut"

Track length3:51

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Lauda Jerusalem : V "Mittit crystallum"

Track length4:01

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Lauda Jerusalem : VI "Emittet verbum"

Track length3:11

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Lauda Jerusalem : VII "Qui annuntiat"

Track length1:17

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Henry Desmaret, Henry Desmarets: Desmarest : Lauda Jerusalem : VIII "Non fecit taliter"

Work length3:33

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Arnaud Marzorati (bass), Laurent Slaars (baritone), Paul Agnew (tenor), Rebecca Ockenden (soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie

Henry Desmarets: Desmarest

Work length19:41

$13.00

$17.00

Arnaud Marzorati (bass), Laurent Slaars (baritone), Paul Agnew (tenor), Rebecca Ockenden (soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie

Domine, ne in furore : I "Domine, ne in furore"

Track length1:43

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Domine, ne in furore : II "Miserere mei, Domine"

Track length1:30

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Domine, ne in furore : III "Et anima mea"

Track length0:51

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Domine, ne in furore : IV "Convertere, Domine"

Track length1:52

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Domine, ne in furore : V "Quoniam"

Track length1:07

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Domine, ne in furore : VI "Laboravi"

Track length2:24

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Domine, ne in furore : VII "Turbatus est a furore"

Track length1:56

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Domine, ne in furore : VIII "Discedite a me omnes"

Track length2:05

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Domine, ne in furore : IX "Exaudivit"

Track length2:39

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Domine, ne in furore : X "Erubescant"

Track length3:34

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November 2000

Christie's musicians are in particularly fine form, injecting the choral textures with supple rhythmic vigour and declaiming the solos with clarity and warmth.

2010

If Henry Desmarest hasn't yet joined other French Baroque composers among the ranks of the Great Rediscovered, here's a disc which ought to help him on his way. These three grands motets were composed between 1708 and 1715, the early years of his time as musical director to the court of the Duke of Lorraine. Scored for soloists, choir and orchestra, each is a multi-sectional psalm-setting lasting about 20 minutes. What's immediately striking isn't only how strong-boned and well-written the music is, but also how contrasted; here are moments of supreme tenderness, powerful intensity, robust grandeur and uplifting rhythmic vigour. And if a tendency towards melancholy is unsurprising given that two of these psalm-texts are penitential, who's to say that we aren't also witnessing a reflection of the unhappy circumstances of this composer's life? Such music couldn't have fallen into better hands than Christie's. His talent is to see the work as a totality, with the result that the music never fails to punch its full expressive weight.
With Sophie Daneman and Paul Agnew excellent among the soloists, and choral singing which remains unfailingly vivid and alert throughout, these are vibrant performances that don't put a foot wrong. The recording is clear and nicely balanced, though an unusual profusion of extraneous noises is an irritant. Even so, this is a must-buy for French Baroque fans.

Grand Motets Lorrains

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