For more than forty years, Lalande was the French court's favorite composer, cultivating the most elevated and touching aspects of the spirit of the Grand Si�cle. S�bastien Dauc� and the Ensemble Correspondances offer us some remarkable examples of his output here: with the imposing Miserere, ample and sombre, the Dies irae and the rarely heard Veni Creator, this 'Latin Lully' brought the art of the grand motet to it's zenith.