Lully: Grand Motets Vol 1 / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 1, 1999
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LULLY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Concert Spirituel Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      Hervé, Niquet
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 01, 1999
    • UPC
      636943439722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8554397
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Symphonie

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    2. Patrem immensae majestatis

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    3. Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    4. Salvum fac populum tuum

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    5. Dignare, Domine

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    6. In Te, Domine, speravi

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    7. Symphonie

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    8. Ut justificeris in sermonibus

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    9. Averte faciem tuam

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    10. Docebo iniquos vias tuas

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    11. Benigne fac, Domine

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    12. Symphonie

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    13. O Jesu vita Precantium

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    14. Vivat regnet princeps fidelis

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet


The court of Louis XIV was a lively and musically thriving place, and Jean-Baptiste Lully, who actually was Italian (Giovanni Battista Lulli) but became a naturalized French citizen, was right in the middle of it. As director of one of the king's orchestras and as Superintendent of the King's Music, Composer of the King's Chamber, and Master of Music of the Royal Family, Lully's job included providing music for various entertainments, mostly ballets and other orchestral and stage works. Sacred choral music came later in Lully's career, and this recording offers three of his most important masterpieces in this genre. The artful use of homophonic and polyphonic sections, double chorus, soloists, and orchestral color combine to give each of these substantial works the dramatic charge and forward-moving energy of a theatrical piece. Le Concert Spirituel, named and fashioned after an 18th-century concert organization that specialized in performance of French "Grands Motets", is an outstanding modern advocate for Lully's music, with fine soloists, an excellent chorus that knows the true meaning of "ensemble", and instrumentalists (and conductor) who understand the importance of rhythm in realizing this music's full effect. I look forward to Volume 2. [11/25/1999]--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com