Lambert, M: Leçons de ténèbres

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The performers on this pioneering recording have gone to considerable lengths to match up the complex vocal line with the accompaniment and the results are musically very convincing…Mauillon... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: HMM90236364
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

June 2018

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Lambert, M: Première Leçon du premier jour

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Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel

Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiæ - Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola

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Beth. Plorans ploravit in nocte

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Gimel. Migravit Judas

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Daleth. Viæ Sion lugent eo

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He. Facti sunt hostes

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum

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Lambert, M: Seconde Leçon du premier jour

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Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel

Vau. Et egressus est

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Zain. Recordata est Jerusalem

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Heth. Peccatum peccavit Jerusalem

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Teth. Sordes ejus in pedibus

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum

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Lambert, M: Troisième Leçon du premier jour

Work length10:29

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Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel

Jod. Manum suam misit hostis

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Caph. Omnis populus ejus

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Lamed. O vos omnes

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Mem. De excelso misit ignem

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Nun. Vigilavit jugum iniquitatum mearum

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum

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anon.: Prélude non mesuré pour viole seule

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Myriam Rignol

Lambert, M: Première Leçon du second jour

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Marc Mauillon, Marouan Mankar-Bennis

De Lamentatione Jeremiæ - Heth. Cogitavit Dominus

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Teth. Defixæ sunt in terra

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Jod. Sederunt in terra

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Caph. Defecerunt præ lacrimis

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere

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Lambert, M: Seconde Leçon du second jour

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Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel

Lamed. Matribus suis dixerunt

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Mem. Cui comparabo te

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Nun. Prophetæ tui viderunt

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Samec. Plauserunt super te manibus

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere

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Lambert, M: Troisième Leçon du second jour

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Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel

Aleph. Ego vir videns

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Beth. Vetustam fecit

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Gimel. Circumedificavit adversum

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere

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Lambert, M: Allemande

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Myriam Rignol

Lambert, M: Première Leçon du troisième jour

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Thibaut Roussel, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon

De Lamentatione Jeremiæ - Heth. Misericordiæ Domini

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Teth. Bonus est Dominus sperantibus

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Jod. Sedebit solitarius

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum

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Lambert, M: Seconde Leçon du troisième jour

Work length11:53

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Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel

Aleph. Quomodo obscuratum est aurum

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Beth. Filii Sion inclyti

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Gimel. Sed et lamiæ nudaverunt mammam

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Daleth. Adhesit lingua lactentis

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He. Qui vescebantur voluptuose

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Vau. Et major effecta est

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum

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Lambert, M: Courante

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Thibaut Roussel

Lambert, M: Troisième Leçon du troisième jour

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Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Myriam Rignol, Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel

Incipit Oratio Jeremiæ

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Pupilli facti sumus

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Servi dominati sunt

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Mulieres in Sion

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum

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Gaultier, E: Tombeau de Mezangeau

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Thibaut Roussel

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'None of us knew what to expect when we took the plunge into the first cycle of the Leçons de Ténèbres by Lambert. The secular work of this great master of the French XVII Century – one of the great singers and pedagogues of his time – was known to us, each one of us having performed many times his wonderful court airs. We thereupon thought that we were on known territory and able to adapt ourselves to suit his religious music, even though it seemed odd to us that these Leçons were not better known or often performed and even less recorded – this first cycle being the very first recording. But from the first working session, we understood why. It took a good three hours just to read the first Leçon – for about ten minutes worth of music! Indeed, the vocal line, abundantly ornamented with Gregorian ‘plainchant ’, is not rhythmically rigorously organised in relation to the basso continuo line. We therefore had to put in place both parts, melodic and harmonic, with a very careful and well thought out approach. Nonetheless, once we got over these initial hurdles, the music revealed itself to us in all its beauty and its singular depth, the sobriety and the expressivity of the plain-chant comes through almost as a kind of watermark behind the genius and endlessly renewed inventiveness of the ornamentation. We took on the huge task of adapting this score, which had always remained a puzzle for musicologists who in actual fact were very interested in hearing our interpretation in the light of the latest research. Several stages were necessary in order to find the best solution for performing this work whilst remaining as faithful as possible to the original source. Faced with ornamentation both prolific and virtuosic, equally precise as it is mysterious, conserving moments of unexpected liberty in the middle of a very restrained form, one of the major challenges was to find a specific vocality and an adapted continuo, taking us back to the very heart of our artistic research. It is rare, that as a musician we are to such a point interrogated by a score and each one of us by bringing his stone to the edifice, truly lived this adventure as a gift. According to witnesses at the time, we know that these Leçons by Michel Lambert were performed by three singers during the Tenebrae services but we chose the option in this recording of providing a version for male voice, to take into account the fact that our composer himself must have sung these pieces – the score, even if we know that it is not autographed, leads us to believe that it is more of an ‘aide-mémoire’ rather than a ready to be performed version – and that he sang his own court airs, even though they were written for soprano. He also played the accompaniment, probably on the theorbo – in the company of the gambist and theorbist Nicolas Hotman, of whom we have chosen a few instrumental pieces made use of as preludes, postludes, meditations and phrases in between these Leçons, which at the time were placed in the middle of liturgical services, three days before Easter... If the experience suggested here differs from that which was originally anticipated for these pieces, it’s nevertheless worth being listened to notably for the meditative state into which it plunges us. Now we can share with you our gift!'

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June 2018

The performers on this pioneering recording have gone to considerable lengths to match up the complex vocal line with the accompaniment and the results are musically very convincing…Mauillon has great vocal dexterity and deals with the almost ceaseless ornamental demands of Lambert’s setting fearlessly, but in the end sounds rather too monochrome.

June 2018

The unwavering, honest quality of Mauillon’s reedy voice – so suited to earlier music – works perfectly in this context, creating the sense of a cantus firmus on which the instrumentalists elaborate. ...Might this release have laid down a new benchmark in the revival of 17th-century performing practices? I think so.

15th March 2018

The performance certainly seems to be smooth enough, if a little unrelenting, though the rather closeup perspective of the recording may have something to do with that.

30th March 2018

A meditative frame of mind is needed, plus a taste for vocal lines so embellished that it’s difficult to uncover the basic melodies. Over almost two hours the baritone Marc Mauillon, lightly accompanied, never gives up, and musical rewards certainly exist.

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