Sophie Karthauser, Ensemble Correspondances & Sebastien Dauce - Lalande: Lecons de Tenebres (2015)

Classic | Author: SELMER | 12-07-2018, 06:04

Artist: Sophie Karthauser, Ensemble Correspondances & Sebastien Dauce
Title Of Album: Lalande: Lecons de Tenebres
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Country: Belgium & France
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue, log, artwork)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 01:15:56
Full Size: 358 MB

Tracklist:

01. O Mors 0’29

Miserere
02. Miserere mei Deus / Et secundum multitudinem miserationem tuarum 1’52
03. Amplius lava me / Tibi soli peccavi 2’30
04. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus / Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti 2’07
05. Asperges me hyssopo / Averte faciem tuam 4’06
06. Cor mundum / Ne projicias me 2’14
07. Redde mihi l?titiam / Docebo iniquos vias tuas 1’36
08. Libera me de sanguinibus / Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium 3’12
09. Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus / Benigne fac Domine 2’44
10. Tunc acceptabis 2’14
11. Tristis est anima mea 1’24

Troisieme Lecon du Mercredy
12. Jod. Manum suam misit hostis 1’58
13. Caph. Omnis populus ejus 2’37
14. Vide Domine 0’58
15. Lamed 0’39
16. O vos omnes 2’35
17. Mem. De excelso 2’26
18. Nun. Vigilavit 1’17
19. Infirmata est 1’18
20. Jerusalem 1’57
21. Ecce vidimus eum 1’53

Troisieme Lecon du Jeudy
22. Aleph. Ego vir videns 2’21
23. Aleph. Me minavit 1’53
24. Aleph. Tantum in me vertit 1’50
25. Beth. Vetustam fecit 1’33
26. Beth. Aedificavit in gyro meo 2’16
27. Beth. In tenebrosis 2’38
28. Ghimel. Circum ?dificavit 1’57
29. Ghimel. Sed, et cum clamavero 1’39
30. Ghimel. Conclusit vias meas 1’38
31. Jerusalem 1’59
32. Vinea mea electa 1’11

Troisieme Lecon du Vendredy
33. Incipit oratio 0’41
34. Recordare 1’40
35. Pupilli facti sumus 0’52
36. Cervicibus nostris 0’22
37. Lassis non dabatur 1’43
38. Recordare 0’18
39. ?gypto dedimus manum 1’19
40. In animabus nostris 0’37
41. Pellis nostra 0’41
42. Mulieres 1’26
43. Jerusalem 2’00
44. Plange quasi virgo 1’17

The music of the French Baroque has always been a tougher sell than the flashy Italian or the faith-embodying German, and when French Baroque sacred music is recorded it's almost always in the weighty grand motet genre, redolent of French court splendor. These Lecons de Tenebres, or Responsories for Holy Week, of Michel-Richard de Lalande are something else again: intimate pieces for soprano and a small ensemble. Thanks to a tangled publication history (it's not clear when they were composed, and they were published in 1730 in an apparently incomplete state), they have remained almost unknown. Belgian soprano Sophie Karthauser, the Ensemble Correspondances, and their leader, Sebastien Dauce make a good case for the music here, introducing the Lecons de Tenebres with a substantial Miserere and interspersing choral pieces among the three lessons. The music has an unusual mixture of deep solemnity -- the Lessons are introduced by heavily ornamented lines intoning the names of the single letters of the Hebrew alphabet that preface them -- and detailed response to the text. Karthauser, whose voice is just the right size for the music, catches this duality. The Lecons wouldn't have been sung all together like this, and for general listeners the program may consist of a bit too much basically similar music for soprano. But for anyone interested in what French courtiers heard at religious services, this release may well be essential: de Lalande, though not so often performed today, was perhaps the most popular French composer of his time. -- James Manheim

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