Clérambault Chants & Motets for the Royal House of Saint-Louis
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Composer or Director: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
Label: FNAC Music
Magazine Review Date: 2/1995
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 135
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 592316
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Premier Livre d'Orgue, Movement: Suite de deuxième ton |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
Jean Boyer, Organ Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Premier Livre d'Orgue, Movement: Suite de premier ton |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
Jean Boyer, Organ Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Justificeris Domine |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Miserere mei Deus |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Magnificat |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Exultet in Domino |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| O salutaris hostia |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| O felix Maria |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Cantate Vincentium |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Domine salvum fac Regem |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer |
| Hodie Christus natus est |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Gloria in excelsis Deo |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Domine ante te |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Immolabit haedum |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Regina caeli laetare |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Hodie Maria virgo caelos ascendit |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Factum est silentium |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Exultate Deo |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| De profundis clamavi |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
| Benedictus |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer
(Les) Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr Emmanuel Mandrin, Conductor Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Composer Sylvie Moquet, Bass viol |
Author: Nicholas Anderson
This is a mainly successful attempt to present Clerambault's Livre d'Orgue (c1710) in an appropriate context, that is, placing the seven pieces which make up each of the two suites with an alternating pattern of organ solo and plainchant canticle (Magnificat and Benedictus respectively). Additionally, there are petits motets for a variety of occasions in the Church Year, all of the latter Clerambault wrote for the Convent of Saint-Cyr where he had been appointed organist and music master in 1715. Later, in 1733, Clerambault published these pieces together with revised versions of motets by his predecessor at Saint-Cyr, Guillaume Gabriel Nivers.
The most familiar works on this two-disc album are the two organ suites of thePremier Livre d'Orgue which are excellently played by Jean Boyer on the organ of the Abbey of Saint Michel en Thierache which dates from 1714. Decidedly less polished but none the less enjoyable and with an appropriately authentic flavour, is the singing of Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr. This group consists of nine women's voices divided between soprano and mezzo-soprano with a string basso-continuo provided by Sylvie Moquet, and Emmanuel Mandrin (organ) who also directs the ensemble. With such a vocal disposition as this the motets are, not surprisingly, straightforwardly constructed though not without hints of the florid Italianisms with which so many French composers of the time were preoccupied. Though often virtuosic in his vocal writing Clerambault strikes my ears as being far less resourceful than Charpentier, in the previous century, in writing for women's voices. I'm thinking especially of the splendid Magnificat (H81) which the older composer had written for the nuns of the Port-Royal Convent. Clerambault is always practical and seldom dull but the vocal pieces on this disc fail to ignite my enthusiasm in the way that Charpentier almost invariably does. There is, in short, nothing in this music which is even remotely suggestive of the exceptional talent which Clerambault displayed in his secular cantates francaises of which he became a renowned master.
To sum up, a fascinating release, though musically of greater interest for its organ pieces than its vocal ones. The recording is first-rate and the organ itself a wonderful-sounding instrument.'
The most familiar works on this two-disc album are the two organ suites of the
To sum up, a fascinating release, though musically of greater interest for its organ pieces than its vocal ones. The recording is first-rate and the organ itself a wonderful-sounding instrument.'
Clérambault Chants & Motets for the Royal House of Saint-Louis
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