CLAUDE LE JEUNE
Missa Ad Placitum Ensemble Clement Janequin / Dominique Visse, director [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 1/Feb/2015 ] Lejeune represents the archetype of the Renaissance musician. This colourful recording offers an ideal "There are very few good recordings of music by Claude Le Jeune in the catalogue, so this 1997 recording is welcome back." Early Music Review, Febr |
CLEMENT JANEQUIN / THOINOT ARBEAU / PIERRE de la RUE / JOSQUIN DESPREZ / etc
Music in the Châteaux de la Loire Ensemble Clement Janequin, Dominique Visse / The Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow [ Harmonia Mundi Resonances / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Famous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. For centuries their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have often dedicated to them some of... |
DESPRES / PIERRE de la RUE / JANEQUIN / BYRD / LASSUS / etc
Renaissance: Messes et Motets se la Renaissance: Renaissance Masses & Motets Ensemble Clement Janequin, Dominque Visse / Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres / Ensemble Vocal Europeen [ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] The selection gives a fine introduction to the complex subject of the Renaissance mass. |
ESTOCART
Octonaires de la Vanita du Monde Ensemble Clament Janequin / Dominique Visse [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jun/2006 ] Founded in Paris in 1978 the Ensemble Clément Janequin devotes itself principally to the secular and religious music of the Renaissance. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Psalms and Chansons of the Reformation Ensemble Clement Janequin / Dominique Visse [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] On listening to this Huguenot literary and spiritual treasury, one can only dream of what the Reformation musical tradition could have become had it not been nipped in the bud by the tragic events of the Religious Wars. |
LASSUS
French Songs Ensemble Clement Janequin / Dominique Visse (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 14/Jul/2001 ] An extravagant jest by Orlando di Lasso. |
SCHUTZ
The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross Ensemble Clement Janequin / Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse / Visse [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 11/May/2003 ] a serene meditation which the music raises to the level of contemplation |
Ensemble Clament Janequin, Visse
Vecchi - L'Amfiparnaso [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 11/May/2003 ] "A recommended experience." (Harmonia) |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Histoires Sacrées Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD/DVD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Marc-Antoine Charpentier is the only composer of the age of Louis XIV to have distinguished himself so remarkably in the genre of the 'sacred history': he wrote more than thirty such works, all composed after his residence in Italy. Sébastien Daucé... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER & OTHERS
Charpentier: Messe à quatre choeurs / Carnets de voyage d'Italie Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] "In short, this is an inspiring programme which highlights the reasons why Italy had such an overwhelming impact on the impressionable young Parisian.' BBC Music Choral & Song Choice Feb 2021 |
MICHEL RICHARD de LALANDE
Lalande: Grands Motets. Dies irae. Miserere. Veni creator Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Feb/2022 ] For more than forty years, Lalande was the French court's favourite composer, cultivating the most elevated and touching aspects of the spirit of the Grand Siècle. Sébastien Daucé and the Ensemble Correspondances offer us some remarkable examples of... |
JEAN de CAMBEFORT / FRANCESCO CAVALLI / ANTOINE BOESSET / ANONYMOUS
Le Concert Royal de la Nuit: Louis XIV 1715-2015 Celebration [Special Edition] Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi CDs plus Book / 2 CD/Book - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "A rotating team of up to 52 musicians traverse the musical spectrum from whispered intimacy to jovial ceremony." (Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2015) |
BOESSET / MOULINIÉ / LAMBERT etc
Les Plaisirs du Louvre - Airs pour la Chambre de Louis XIII Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Before Versailles, the epicentre of power in the Kingdom of France was the Louvre, a genuine theatre of ceremonies where music was duty-bound to impress with its magnificence. In the reign of Louis XIII, the air de cour and ballet mobilised the elite... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Litanies de la Vierge Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] "One of France's best new early music groups, Ensemble Correspondances, shows total understanding of his idiom and achieves a perfect balance of clean but expressive voices with crisp and precise instrumental ensemble." The Observer, 25th August 2013 |
MATTHEW LOCKE
Locke: Psyche Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD/Book - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Inspired by the Psyché created collectively by Lully, Molière, Corneille and Quinault, Locke's Psyche was a veritable artistic firework display: seeking to vie in splendour with the operas of continental Europe, it luxuriously combined theatre, song,... |
HENRY DU MONT
Du Mont: O Mysterium Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] 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... |
DE RORE / DESPREZ / DE L'AQUILA / etc
instrumentale: The Rise of Instrumental Music Ensemble de violes Labyrinto / the King's Noyse / Paul O'Dette [ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] Includes works by Josquin, Borrono, Arbeau & Isaac |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Quintets G.287, 318 & 347 Ensemble Explorations / Roel Dieltiens [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] "As for well executed, you will not find better, and the Harmonia Mundi recording is perfection." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
PALESTRINA
Lamentations de Jeremie / Messe Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / Dominique Vellard [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Sep/2007 ] |
GUERRERO
The Angel's Voice Ensemble la Sestina [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2011 ] "[The Missa is] a work particularly suited to the fresh clarity of the sound of Ensemble La Sestina, comprising only eight voices. The singers respond with simplicity and wonder to Guerrero's combination of intricate melodic writing and tightly woven... |