Du Mont: Motets & Élévations for the Chapel of Louis XIV

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Ensemble Correspondances guides us gracefully through music for Louis XIV’s small private chapel choir and the grand masses required for events of state. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: HMC902241
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 71 minutes

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Dumont, H: Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

Memorare

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets à 3 parties

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

No. 19, Jesu dulcedo cordium

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets à 4 parties: No. 29, Desidero te millies

Work length3:07

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

O æterne misericors Deus

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets à 3 parties

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

No. 24, Sub umbra noctis profundæ

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

O mysterium

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Cantica sacra: No. 40, Allemanda Gravis

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets à 3 parties

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

No. 11, Ave Regina cælorum

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

O dulcissima

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Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets à 2 voix: No. 12, Quam pulchra es

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé, Caroline Weynants, Caroline Dangin-Bardot

Henri Dumont, Henry Du Mont: Motets à 3 parties

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

No. 15, O præcelsum

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Dumont, H: Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

Super flumina Babylonis

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For 20 years (from 1663 to 1683) Henry Du Mont directed the music of the Sun King’s chapel. For the daily Mass there he built up a new repertory consisting of motets for full chorus and more intimate pieces for solo voices. The former aimed to transpose to the context of ‘ordinary’ the format of the large-scale works conceived for extraordinary ceremonies. Sébastien Daucé presents an innovative approach to these grands motets, that at once links specific musical features with historical data, for each of which he adopts a specific instrumental scoring.

Reviews

November 2016

Ensemble Correspondances guides us gracefully through music for Louis XIV’s small private chapel choir and the grand masses required for events of state.

June 2016

This admirable recording consists of five grands motets and six élévations or petits motets…Sébastien Daucé’s direction is lively and sensitive, and the recorded sound is exemplary

29th November 2016

it seems unlikely that they receive better performances than here by the Ensemble Correspondances which in recent years has developed into one of the finest of its kind. The voices blend perfectly and the singers have a very good feeling for the mixture of Italian expression on the one hand and the elegance and the natural prosody which are features of French music under the ancien régime

5th June 2016

The works here combine devoutness with an indulgent richness, surely what the job demanded. The harmonies are always expressive, and there are some magical things, not least the build-up of texture in O Mysterium itself. Under Sébastien Daucé’s direction, these performances are deliciously opulent.

5th June 2016

These motets by the longtime servant of the court, Henry Du Mont, explore a rather limited expressive range with great skill. Their survival is fragmentary and conductor Sébastien Daucé has skilfully rewritten some of the inner parts: his singers include a wonderfully flexible but precise bass and a well-blended ensemble; the fascinating texts include Pierre Perrin’s intense hymn to the Trinity, O Mysterium.

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