Gilles: Messe des morts / Armengaud, Les folies françaies

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Château de Versailles Spectacles
Release Date
October 6, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Jean Gilles
    • PERFORMER
      Fabien Armengaud, Les Folies Francoises, Les Pages & Les Chantres Du Centre De Musique Baroque De Ve
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 06, 2023
    • UPC
      3760385430140
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CVS104
    • LABEL
      Château de Versailles Spectacles
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Domine Deus meus, in te speravi (Tenor, Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Sebastian Monti, Eugénie Lefebvre

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    2. Si reddidi retribuentibus mihi mala (Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    3. Judica me, Domine, secundum justitiam meam (Trio)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    4. Domine, Deus meus, in te speravi (Counter-tenor)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Clément Debieuvre

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    5. Justum adjutorium meum a Domino (Quartet, Chorus)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Eugénie Lefebvre, Clément Debieuvre, Sebastian Monti, David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    6. Nisi conversi fueritis (Bass)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Folies francoises

      Performer: David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    7. Ecce parturiit injustitiam (Tenor)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Sebastian Monti

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    8. Lacum aperuit et effodit eum (Chorus)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    9. Convertetur dolor ejus (Counter-tenor)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Clément Debieuvre

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    10. Confitebor Domino (Duet, Chorus)

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    11. Introit

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    12. Kyrie

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    13. Graduel

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    14. Domine Jesu Christe

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Eugénie Lefebvre, Clément Debieuvre, Sebastian Monti, David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    15. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Sebastian Monti

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    16. Fac eas Domine

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    17. Sanctus

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Sebastian Monti, David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    18. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud

    19. Communio

      Composer: Jean Gilles

      Ensemble: Les Pages, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Les Folies francoises

      Performer: Sebastian Monti, David Witczak

      Conductor: Fabien Armengaud


Jean Gilles (Tarascon, 1688), Chapel Master of Toulouse Cathedral from 1697, was a genius struck down at the age of just 37, in 1705. The entire kingdom admired his famed Mass for the Dead, which was played at his own funeral “he sealed his score with his last will and testament, in which he asked that the Chapter have this mass sung to lay his soul to rest”, then performed throughout the century, both in concert and for the funerals of Campra (1744), Rameau (1764) and Louis XV (1774).

Fabien Armengaud and his ensemble from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles perform this masterpiece with the addition of a new motet, Domine Deus Meus, replete with dramatic effects including an awe-inspiring tempest. Gilles’ composition, with its extraordinary expansiveness and mastery of counterpoint, epitomises the nobility that makes French Grand Siècle religious music so incomparable, glorified by this Requiem Æternam…