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Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum
Jehanne Amzal, Eugenie Lefebvre, Clement Debieuvre, Francois-Olivier Jean, Francois Joron, Jean-Christophe Laniece, David Witczak, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
There is fluency and panache in the sequence of concise and flowing movements, and interspersed amid the grandeur accomplished soloists emerge from the choir for moments of intimacy.
Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum
Jehanne Amzal, Eugenie Lefebvre, Clement Debieuvre, Francois-Olivier Jean, Francois Joron, Jean-Christophe Laniece, David Witczak, Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
There is fluency and panache in the sequence of concise and flowing movements, and interspersed amid the grandeur accomplished soloists emerge from the choir for moments of intimacy.
About
Two Te Deums go head to head! The famous one by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and a completely new one by Henry Desmarets. Charpentier and Desmarets, remarkable composers of both sacred music and opera, shared a taste for Italian music and travel, but they also shared the disadvantage of having spent some time in Jean-Baptiste Lully's 'shadow'! Desmarets' life was somewhat tormented, between disgrace and exile; it was while he was superintendent of music at the Court of Lorraine that he composed two Te Deums, including the Te Deum "de Lyon". Written for the same ensemble as Charpentier's famous Te Deum, it uses trumpets and timpani for the grandiloquent sections. It is a true work of craftsmanship, notably in the variety of instrumentation, but also in its alternation of different vocal forces.
Contents and tracklist
- Clément Debieuvre, Jean-Christophe Lanièce (soloist), David Witczak (soloist), Jehanne Amzal (soloist), François Joron (soloist), Eugénie Lefebvre (soloist)
- Ensemble Les Surprises
- Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
- Clément Debieuvre, François-Olivier Jean (soloist), David Witczak (soloist), Eugénie Lefebvre (soloist), François Joron (soloist), Jean-Christophe Lanièce (soloist), Jehanne Amzal (soloist)
- Ensemble Les Surprises
- Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
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Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Baroque Vocal
February 2024
There is fluency and panache in the sequence of concise and flowing movements, and interspersed amid the grandeur accomplished soloists emerge from the choir for moments of intimacy.
