Charpentier - Pour un reposoir, Noels sur les instruments - Sonate à huit Les Dominos & Florence Malgoire

• 1 I. Ouverture 01:53
• 2 II. Tantum ergo 02:08
• 3 III. Tantum ergo (Gregorian) 00:47
• 4 IV. Fugue 00:58
• 5 V. Genitori (Gregorian) 00:49
• 6 VI. Amen 00:55
• 7 VII. Allemande grave 04:18
• 8 Chantons je vous en prie 05:33
• 9 Les Bourgeois de Chatre (H. 534-1) 02:37
• 10 O créateur (H. 531-1) 02:49
• 11 Vous qui désirez sans fin (H. 531-3) 02:13
• 12 Laissez paitres vos betes (H. 531-2) 02:09
• 13 A la venue de Noël 02:27
• 14 Joseph est bien marié 03:31
• 15 Or nous dites Marie (H. 534-4) 04:47
• 16 Á la venue de Noël (H. 534-5) 01:37
• 17 Une jeune pucelle (H. 534-6) 03:43
• 18 Joseph est bien marié (H. 534-3) 02:07
• 19 Où s'en vont ces gais bergers (H. 534-2) 02:18
• 20 Une jeune pucelle 06:41
• 21 Les bourgeois de Chatre (H. 534-7) 03:02
• 22 I. Grave 04:54
• 23 II. Récit de la viole seule - Sarabande 02:45
• 24 III. Récit de la basse de violon - Bourrée 01:55
• 25 IV. Gavotte - Gigue - Passacaille - Chaconne 07:58
• Total Runtime 01:14:54

Info for Charpentier - Pour un reposoir, Noels sur les instruments - Sonate à huit

The instrumental works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier are familiar to very few people. A large number of them were composed for use in churches, the most famous of these being the Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues that has already been recorded by Jean Tubéry and La Fenice for Ricercar (RIC 245).

Charpentier composed the Sonate à huit around 1685, at a time when various private musical societies were exploring the Italian sonata style. Charpentier discovered this style at the same time as François Couperin, who also set about composing sonatas in the Italian style. Couperin’s sonatas were,recorded splendidly last year by Les Dominos for Ricercar (RIC 330); the recording was praised highly by the musical press, being awarded 5 Diapasons and an FFFF by Telerama. Charpentier’s Sonate à huit blends the Italian style with the French suite of dances and as such is one of the masterpieces of instrumental music of the French baroque.

The symphonies Pour un Reposoir were intended to accompany an outdoor procession, an organ naturally not being available. The greater part of the CD, however, is taken up by the Noëls pour les Instruments which Charpentier set for instrumental ensemble and organ. Our interpretation of this work is based on the original manuscript and respects the marked instrumentation as well as Charpentier’s own specifications for organ registrations. We have also recorded the original versions of the above-mentioned Christmas carols, complete with their many verses as they appeared in French collections published at the beginning of the 18th century.

Les Dominos Ensemble
Les Agrémens Ensemble
Namur Chamber Choir Ensemble
Florence Malgoire, conductor

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