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Marc-Antoine Charpentier. (Sound Recording Reviews).(Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy)(Sound Recording Review)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy. Le Concert Spirituel/Herve Niquet. Glossa GCD 921602, 2002.
For someone responsible for so many large-scale sacred choral works--he composed scores of psalm settings, over two hundred motets and close to two hundred liturgical pieces--Marc-Antoine Charpentier wrote surprisingly few Masses. This is one of only eleven attributed to him; it is also his longest and, in the estimation of some, his most beautiful. The exact identity of the honoree is not known, though separate lines of speculation point to several members of the distinguished Mauroy family. It is possible that the Mass was written in honor of the Father Superior of the Mission of the Invalids, who became notorious for his devotion to various ladies of high standing (expressed through lavish gifts of carriages, gowns, ...
- Charpentier: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin. (Le Concert Spirituel)
- Magazine article from: Early Music Sadler, Graham August 1, 1997 700+ words
...anthologies. One obvious solution, adopted on the disc Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (Naxos 8.553174, rec 1995) performed by Le Concert Spirituel under Herve Niquet, is to assemble compositions into a liturgical...
- Purcell: King Arthur. Gens, Harvey etc. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet.
- Magazine article from: Music Week July 10, 2004 700+ words
Purcell King Arthur. Gens, Harvey etc. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet (Glossa GCD 921608) Herve Nicquet draws the connecting line that links Purcell's music with the French courtly divertissement...
- Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez le Duchsesse.(Stephan Van Dyck, Concert...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Vasta, Stephen F. July 1, 1998 700+ words
Hall; Van Dyck, Biren; Concert Spirituel, Niquet. Naxos 8-553647 One of five opera-ballets composed by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Don Quichotte...
- Soprano Shannon mercer recorded Semele by Marin Marais on the Glossa label last...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada November 1, 2007 700+ words
SOPRANO SHANNON MERCER RECORDED Semele by Marin Marais on the Glossa label last year in Paris with Le Concert Spirituel, conducted by Herve Nequet. The opera was presented by l'Opera national de Montpelier and then recorded in the studio. It...
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier. (Music Reviews).(Meslanges Autographes: Facsimile du...
- Magazine article from: Notes Rosow, Lois September 1, 2002 700+ words
Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Meslanges autographes: Fac-simile du manuscrit Paris, Bibliotheque...contents, 2 p. Cloth. ISBN 2-908584-204. Fr 475.] Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) has come to be regarded as one
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier chez les Abenaquis ou la petite histoire d'une Chanson...
- Magazine article from: Historical Studies Dubois, Paul-Andre January 1, 2006 700+ words
...present article porte sur un fragment d'oratorio de Marc-Antoine Charpentier decouvert parmi la musique vocale religieuse adaptee des...following article is devoted to the study of a Marc-Antoine Charpentier Christmas oratorio's fragment. The later was discovered...
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
- Magazine article from: Notes Heyer, John Hajdu March 1, 1998 700+ words
Over the past half century Marc-Antoine Charpentier has steadily emerged from his undeserved obscurity...the English edition of Catherine Cessac's Marc Antoine Charpentier offers musicians and scholars a major new comprehensive...
- An American in Paris: this month. William Christie celebrates his sixtieth...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Giles, Patrick February 1, 2004 700+ words
"I was a musician," wrote Marc-Antoine Charpentier more than three centuries ago. "And since those...s sixtieth birthday. WILLIAM CHRISTIE: Marc-Antoine Charpentier is an awfully important person for us. I started...
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Nine Settings of the Litanies de la Vierge.
- Magazine article from: Early Music Gosine, C. Jane August 1, 1997 700+ words
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) was described by a contemporary, Titon du Tillet, as `one of the most scholarly and industrious musicians of...
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier.(Sound Recording Reviews)(Brief Article)(Sound...
- Magazine article from: Notes Anderson, Rick June 1, 2004 700+ words
Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Musique Sacree. Musica Antiqua Koln/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv B0001413-02, 2003. The Messe pour plusieurs instruments au...
Source: HighBeam Research, Marc-Antoine Charpentier. (Sound Recording Reviews).(Messe de...