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Lalande: Tenebrae / Dumestre, Lefilliatre, Le Poeme Harmonique

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Composer
LALANDE, MICHEL-RICHARD DE
Artist
Le Poeme Harmonique, Dumestre
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Aug 24, 2018
Catalog #
ALPHA350
UPC
3760014193507

About

In 1680, Francois Chaperon, maître de musique of the Sainte-Chapelle, entrusted the setting of some verses from the Lamentations of Jeremiah to Michel Richard de Lalande and Jean-Fery Rebel, Lalande’s brother in law. The Lecons de Tenebres of 1680, now lost, probably provided material for the Tenebrae compositions that have come down to us. Although Lalande had written his Lecons and his Miserere for solo voice for the nuns of the convent of the Assumption, they were actually sung- like many of his works for female voices- by his daughters. The Lecons de Tenebres and Miserere must have therefore been composed some time before 1711, for that year Jeanne and Marie Anne de Lalande died in the smallpox epidemic. For this interpretation of the Miserere, the musicians have chosen the version presented in Brossard’s autograph manuscript of 1711, in which the alternate verses are sung by three voices in faux-bourdon, a practice that was still in vogue at that time in France. Fragmentary notation for a treble instrument is found throughout this manuscript version, thus attesting the practice, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of improvising the countermelody at sight.

Tracklist 4 tracks

  1. 1 Miserere a voix seule 25:12
    Track
    1
    Title
    Miserere a voix seule
    Duration
    25:12
    Composer
    Michel-Richard de Lalande
    Ensemble
    Le Poème Harmonique
  2. 2 Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres du Mercredi Saint, s118 17:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres du Mercredi Saint, s118
    Duration
    17:11
    Composer
    Michel-Richard de Lalande
    Performer
    Claire Lefilliâtre
    Ensemble
    Le Poème Harmonique
    Conductor
    Vincent Dumestre
  3. 3 Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres du Jeudi Saint, s121 21:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres du Jeudi Saint, s121
    Duration
    21:06
    Composer
    Michel-Richard de Lalande
    Performer
    Claire Lefilliâtre
    Ensemble
    Le Poème Harmonique
    Conductor
    Vincent Dumestre
  4. 4 Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres du Vendredi Saint, s124 11:47
    Track
    4
    Title
    Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres du Vendredi Saint, s124
    Duration
    11:47
    Composer
    Michel-Richard de Lalande
    Performer
    Claire Lefilliâtre
    Ensemble
    Le Poème Harmonique
    Conductor
    Vincent Dumestre