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Clérambault: Miserere - Couperin: Leçons de ténèbres (Recording at La Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles)
NICOLAS CLÉRAMBAULT
1.
Miserere: Miserere mei Deus
3:30
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
2.
Miserere: Quoniam iniquitatem meam
4:59
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
3.
Miserere: Asperges me hyssopo
3:57
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
4.
Miserere: Averte faciem tuam
2:48
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
5.
Miserere: Docebo iniquinos
3:49
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
6.
Miserere: Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium
6:02
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN
7.
Leçons de ténèbres, Première leçon: Incipit Lamentation Jeremiæ
2:41
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
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Leçons de ténèbres, Première leçon: Beth
3:48
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
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Leçons de ténèbres, Première leçon: Ghimel
1:51
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
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Leçons de ténèbres, Première leçon: Daleth
2:34
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
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Leçons de ténèbres, Première leçon: He
2:32
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
12.
Leçons de ténèbres, Première leçon: Jerusalem, convertere
2:58
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
13.
Leçons de ténèbres, Deuxième leçon: Vau
1:54
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
14.
Leçons de ténèbres, Deuxième leçon: Zaïn
3:13
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
15.
Leçons de ténèbres, Deuxième leçon: Heth
1:46
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
16.
Leçons de ténèbres, Deuxième leçon: Teth
2:40
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
17.
Leçons de ténèbres, Deuxième leçon: Jerusalem, convertere
2:26
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
18.
Leçons de ténèbres, Troisième leçon: Jod
1:42
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
19.
Leçons de ténèbres, Troisième leçon: Caph
2:00
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
20.
Leçons de ténèbres, Troisième leçon: Lamed
2:32
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
21.
Leçons de ténèbres, Troisième leçon: Mem
1:45
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
22.
Leçons de ténèbres, Troisième leçon: Nun
1:48
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
23.
Leçons de ténèbres, Troisième leçon: Jerusalem, convertere
1:50
Solo: Hasnaa Bennani Performer
Solo: Isabelle Druet Performer
Solo: Claire Lefilliâtre Performer
Solo: Le Poème Harmonique Performer
Solo: Vincent Dumestre Performer
Notes
It seemed natural for Le Poème Harmonique, which has already recorded some of the greatest works in the 17th-century French sacred repertoire, to contribute to Alpha’s Versailles Collection by giving its vision of François Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres. To this it adds a work as masterful as it is forgotten: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s Miserere.
The Leçons de Ténèbres were written by François Couperin for the Holy Week liturgies of 1714, at the Abbey of Longchamp. They take up the Old Testament text from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, wherein the prophet deplores the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. In the Catholic tradition, they symbolize the solitude of Christ, abandoned by his apostles.
Isabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani, Claire Lefilliâtre and Vincent Dumestre give us an interpretation in which the affect is, of course, at the service of a rhetoric appropriate for the period and this repertoire whilst fully exploiting the lyric beauty of these works.
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