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Charpentier and Poulenc: Choral Works
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge & City of London Sinfonia, George Guest
This is another quality disc from Chandos which offers beautiful performances of these attractive French choral works —
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Special offer. Charpentier, M-A: Messe de minuit pour Noël, etc.
RecommendedAradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon
Mallon's solo team, drawn from the choir, stands up to the competition remarkably well, as does the lithe orchestral playing, Some choral movements sound slightly under-powered, but that's... —
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Building a Library, March 2007, Budget Choice
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Charpentier: Messe de Minuit - in Nativatem Domini Canticum
Ensemble Corrrespondances, Etienne Bazola (baritone), Randol Rodriguez, Renaud Brès, Anne-Sophie Petit, Caroline Weynants, Marie-Frédérique Girod, Jordan Mouaïssia, Paco Garcia, Sébastien Daucé
[The Noëls] and the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei are sung with joy and gentle intensity by Ensemble Correspondances, although director Sébastien Daucé shies away from some of... —
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe de minuit & Missa Assumpta est Maria
The Boys Choir of Versailles, Orchestra on original instruments (A=392Hz)
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Charpentier: Messe de minuit pour Noël & Handel: Organ Concertos
Brad Hughley (organ), Elizabeth Packard-Arnold (soprano), Magdalena Wór (mezzo-soprano), Brent Runnels (tenor), Patrick Newell (baritone)
St. Bartholomew's Canterbury Choir, New Trinity Baroque, Predrag Gosta
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Charpentier, M-A: In nativitatem Domini canticum, H. 416, etc.
Les Arts Florissants Orchestra & Chorus, William Christie
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum & Messe de minuit pour Noël
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Minkowski gives a characteristically ebullient, highly charged performance. For my taste, however, the vocal style seems too operatic for a work of this kind. —
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Joyeux Noël: French Christmas Music
Christian Lambour (organ)
Aradia Ensemble & La Fantasia, Kevin Mallon & Rien Voskuilen
Lightness, charm, elegance – qualities that surface repeatedly in these three CDs of French music related to Christmas…Mallon leads the Aradia Ensemble in deliciously nimble period instrument... —
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all fulsomely rendered, though acoustically a little inconsistent, in rare arrangements with period orchestra. —
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