Du Mont: O Mysterium
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HENRY DU MONT
Du Mont: O Mysterium
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 20 June 2016
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For twenty years (from 1663 to 1683) Henry Du Mont directed the music of the Sun King's chapel. For the daily Mass heard there he built up a new musical repertory consisting of motets for full chorus and more intimate pieces for solo voices. The former aimed to transpose to the context of the 'ordinary' the format of the large-scale works conceived for extraordinary ceremonies. Sébastien Daucé presents an innovative approach to these 'grands motets' that at once links specific musical features with historical data and reveals all their beauties in every detail.
"This admirable recording consists of five grands motets and six élévations or petits motets…Sébastien Daucé's direction is lively and sensitive, and the recorded sound is exemplary" (Gramophone)
"The works here combine devoutness with an indulgent richness, surely what the job demanded. The harmonies are always expressive, and there are some magical things, not least the build-up of texture in O Mysterium itself. Under Sébastien Daucé's direction, these performances are deliciously opulent." (Sunday Times)
Tracks:
Memorare
Jesu dulcedo cordium
Desidero te millies
O æterne misericors Deus
Sub umbra noctis profundæ
O mysterium
Allemanda Gravis
Ave Regina cælorum
O dulcissima
Quam pulchra es
O præcelsum
Super flumina Babylonis
