Since you are interested in Charpentier: Sacred Choral Works Vol. 4, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Music for the Prix de Rome Guylaine Girard / Sophie Marilley / Bernard Richter / Alain Buet / Brussels Philharmonic / Orchestra of Flanders / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 16/Mar/2010 ] Claude Debussy presented himself as a candidate for the Prix de Rome on three separate occasions during the 1880s, the most innovative decade in the history of that competition; a time when success entitled the victors (at the French government's... |
CHARPENTIER
Lecons de Tenebres de la Semaine Sainte de 1692 Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - June 2002 |
CHARPENTIER
Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy Le Concert Spirituel. Directed by Herva Niquet [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Hervé Niquet here rescues an almost unknown mass by Charpentier |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier - Sacred Music, Volume 1: Messe des Morts / Litanies a la Vierge Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "(a) perfect example of how to take regligious music and turn it into an experience which even the most secular listener must enjoy ... The performance of the Messe des Morts is beautifully melodic and truly uplifting ... a masterpiece given dynamism... |
Le Concert Spirituel Herve Niquet, conductor
Lorenzani-Motets [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2002 ] "Lorenzani has introduced a French element, yet they were more typical of the Italian 'grand motet'." |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Sacred Choral Works Vol. 2: Vespres a la Vierge (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "Performances sound splendid to me...Another one to add to the buying list." - Classic CD - February 1996 |
GEOFFROY
Music For Choir And Organ Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet (Organ And Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "It's remarkable to have such obscure repertoire, performed so admirably, at the price of this disc. The most important Geoffroy issue yet" - Fanfare |