Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
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COUPERIN
Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Marianna Beate Kielland (mezzo), Lynda Sayce (theorbo), Robert King (chamber organ) / The King's Consort, Robert King
[ Vivat / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 April 2013
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Ravishing second release on The King's Consort's new classical label, VIVAT, features world-renowned British soprano Carolyn Sampson and outstanding Norwegian mezzo Marianne Beate Kielland in entrancingly evocative French Baroque music.
Couperin's three "Leçons" for Holy Week are vividly atmospheric, highly coloured, richly dissonant, and deeply melancholy, presenting music of an intensity that is quiet unique in Baroque sacred repertoire. The third Leçon is an especial jewel, with gloriously intertwining vocal lines.
· Alongside the three extraordinary "Leçons" come two further substantial vocal duets by Couperin: a joyous Easter motet and a fine setting of the Magnificat.
· Full-length 79'40" disc also includes stunning solo instrumental tracks, with Gramophone award-winning viol player Susanne Heinrich performing music by Marin Marais and Monsieur de Ste-Colombe (composers featured in the film "Tous les Matins du Monde").
· Recorded at "low" French baroque pitch, A=392, giving unparalleled richness to the vocal and instrumental sonorities.
· High quality documentation, first-rate engineering.
"The King's Consort are set to re-enter the recording catalogue"
(Gramophone)
"Robert King has always been able to assemble the right people for the right job...he combines the contrasting timbres of Carolyn Sampson (soprano) and Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo) in sumptuous performances of three works by Couperin. Sampson's brightness and Kielland's riper tones beautifully complement each other." (Sunday Times)
"Carolyn Sampson is perhaps this country's leading singer of French baroque repertoire, and in Marianne Beate Kielland she has the ideal partner: the two voices weave around and respond to one another with subtlety and flexibility, and the instrumental playing is no less accomplished." (Early Music Today)
"the delightful purity and seeming weightlessness of Sampson's voice, at times soaring ethereally in delicate melismas, is perfectly complemented by the warmer character of the Norwegian mezzo-soprano...The instrumental support for the Lecons is discreet, a model of refined restraint...King's own notes are packed with priceless information and valuable insight." (International Record Review)
"There is something about the atmosphere of Robert King's Ténèbres which makes it more believable than many, and this is a recording which will take you on a very long journey indeed...The King's Consort musicians create the ideal atmosphere for Couperin's Lamentations, and both vocal soloists are highly effective and deeply expressive." (MusicWeb)
Tracks:
Couperin, F:
Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
Motet pour le jour de Pâques
Magnificat
Marais, M:
Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
Susanne Heinrich (viol)
Chaconne in A major
Susanne Heinrich (viol)
Sainte Colombe the younger:
Prelude in E minor
Susanne Heinrich (viol)
