Couperin: Sacred Music & Lully: Miserere

Release Date: 8th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4828542
Label: Eloquence
Length: 75 minutes

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Couperin, F: Motet de Sainte-Suzanne

Work length18:15

Ralph Downes (organ), Boris Ord (harpsichord), Christopher Bunting (cello), Sir Neville Marriner (violin), William Herbert (tenor), George James (bass), Alan Loveday (violin), Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Anthony Lewis
Recorded: 1953

I. Veni sponsa Christi

Track length2:13

II. Date serta, date flores

Track length1:10

III. Jubilemus

Track length1:44

IV. O Susanna

Track length4:08

V. Voluit Dominus

Track length3:29

VI. O Susanna

Track length1:45

VII. Filiae Israel

Track length3:46

Couperin, F: 4 Versets d'un Motet composé de l'ordre du Roy

Work length10:41

Joy Boughton (oboe), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Ralph Downes (organ), Boris Ord (harpsichord), Geoffrey Gilbert (flute), Christopher Bunting (cello), William Herbert (tenor), Elsie Morison (soprano), George James (bass), Alan Loveday (violin), Sir Neville Marriner (violin), Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Anthony Lewis
Recorded: 1955

XI. Tabescare me fecit

Track length1:30

XII. Ignitum eloquium tuum

Track length3:15

XIII. Adolscentulus sum ego

Track length3:38

XIV. Justitia tua

Track length2:18

Couperin, F: Verset du Motet de l'année dernière

Work length2:33

Joy Boughton (oboe), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Ralph Downes (organ), Boris Ord (harpsichord), Geoffrey Gilbert (flute), Christopher Bunting (cello), William Herbert (tenor), Elsie Morison (soprano), George James (bass), Alan Loveday (violin), Sir Neville Marriner (violin), Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Anthony Lewis
Recorded: 1955-01-01

Qui dat nives

Track length2:33

Couperin, F: Verset du Motet composé de l'ordre du roi

Work length3:53

Joy Boughton (oboe), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Ralph Downes (organ), Boris Ord (harpsichord), Geoffrey Gilbert (flute), Christopher Bunting (cello), William Herbert (tenor), Elsie Morison (soprano), George James (bass), Alan Loveday (violin), Sir Neville Marriner (violin), Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Anthony Lewis
Recorded: 1955

XV. Deus virtutem convertere

Track length3:53

Couperin, F: Dialogus Inter Deum Et Hominem

Work length10:15

Joy Boughton (oboe), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Ralph Downes (organ), Boris Ord (harpsichord), Geoffrey Gilbert (flute), Christopher Bunting (cello), William Herbert (tenor), Elsie Morison (soprano), George James (bass), Alan Loveday (violin), Sir Neville Marriner (violin), Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Anthony Lewis
Recorded: 1955

Lully: Miserere mei Deus LWV25

Work length30:19

Bruce Boyce (bass), Richard Lewis (tenor), Elsie Morison (soprano), Margaret Ritchie (soprano), Alfred Deller (countertenor), William Herbert (tenor)
The St. Anthony Singers, Ensemble Orchestral de L'Oiseau-Lyre
Anthony Lewis
Recorded: 1954-02
Recording Venue: London

I. Miserere mei Deus

Track length4:21

II. Amplius lava mei

Track length1:26

III. Quoniam inquitatem meam

Track length2:03

IV. Tibi soli peccavi et malum

Track length1:47

V. Ecce enim in inquitatibus

Track length0:59

VI. Ecce enim veritatem

Track length1:52

VII. Asperges me hysopo

Track length2:21

VIII. Audite meo dabis

Track length1:24

IX. Averte faciem

Track length0:49

X. Cor mundum crea

Track length0:55

XI. Ne proicias me

Track length0:43

XII. Redde mihi

Track length2:07

XIII. Docebo iniquos vias tuas

Track length0:59

XIV. Libera me de sanguinibus Deus

Track length1:23

XV. Domine labia mea

Track length0:41

XVI. Quoniam si voluisses

Track length1:03

XVII. Sacrificium Deo spiritus

Track length2:31

XVIII. Benigne fac Domine

Track length0:48

XIX. Tunc acceptabis

Track length2:07

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Two rare L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings of French Baroque masterpieces, newly remastered and making their first appearance on CD.

From the time of its foundation in 1932 by the Australian-born, Paris-adopted philanthropist Louise Hanson-Dyer, Editions de L’Oiseau-Lyre specialised in French early music as the name of the imprint implied. The company’sfirst complete scholarly edition a year later comprised the complete works of Francois Couperin to mark the bicentenary of his death. Although the company’s post-war recording activity centred on London, French repertoire continued to be recorded locally.

This pair of LPs released in 1954 and 1955 marked a bold departure: sacred vocal consort music, still hardly known to the record-buying public, in performances of scholarly authority (for the mid-1950s), technical finesse and lively temperament. This reissue presents them once more on CD, complemented by authoritative booklet notes from the original releases by the respected writer on French music, Marc Pincherle.

Taking the soaring haut-contre line in Couperin’s grand Motet pour Saint-Suzanne was the English tenor William Herbert, who features on several other L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings reissued by Eloquence, alongside the soprano Jennifer Vyvyan and conductor Anthony Lewis: among them Handel’s Semele (4825055) and sacred Litanies by Mozart (4825041).

Herbert is again one of the soloists in the no-less starrily cast record of Lully’s imposing setting of the Miserere. Lewis’s conducting is alive to the cool splendour of Lully’s writing which so tellingly anticipates the set-pieces of Handel’s oratorios. Essential listening for aficionados of the French Baroque and for anyone with an ear for singing of high artistry, whatever the era.

‘Madame de Sevigne declared that in heaven there could be no other music but Lully’s and this lovely work makes one understand just what she meant ... The performance is imbued with true artistry.’ - Gramophone, November 1954

‘Professor Lewis keeps things going and takes advantage of every opportunity for achieving variety ... [the soloists] blend into an effective ensemble. Good recording.’- High Fidelity, October 1955 (Lully)

‘William Herbert, in excellent voice, deals very successfully with the high essitura of his vocal line ... Anthony Lewis directs the admirable and welltoned instrumental playing ... and the recording and balance are first-rate.’- Gramophone, November 1955 (Couperin)

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