JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: :Grand Motets, Vol. 2 Concert Spirituel Chorus, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] "The performances here are first-rate, with an accomplished and idiomatic crew of soloists, and fine work from the band and chorus. These are still the only available recordings of three of the four motets. A real buy from Naxos. Warmly recommended."... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Grands Motets Vol.3 Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] |
Herve/Lovett/Green/Sugitani
Waitin For Benny: A Tribute To [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
ORAZIO BENEVOLO
Benevolo: Missa Azzolina / Magnificat / Dixit Dominus Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/1996 ] "The voices of Le Concert Spiritual provide an impressive body of sound...An accompanying note by Jean Lionnet provides a helpful background." BBC Music "It's worth more than they're asking - at this price, you can hardly miss" Fanfare |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Grand Motets Vol. 1 Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Sep/2007 ] "[Niquet] brings declamatory vigour, rhythmic incisiveness and, where the contrast exists, a gentler expressive sensibility to music that is redolent of those gestures typifying Bourbon absolutism during the Grand siècle...A stimulating issue...Once... |
M. A. CHARPENTIER
Lecons de Tenebres Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] recorded Église Notre Dame du Liban, Paris, March 2001 |
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... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Sacred Choral Works Vol. 3 Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "The choir and instrumentalists of Le Concert Spiritual are on their usual lively form .... directed with stylistic assurance by Niquet." Gramophone Magazine |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Sacred Choral Works Vol. 4 Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "This is in every way a worthy successor to the earlier releases in the series." -- American Record Guide |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier - Ballets de Village Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] "These ballets are delightfully un-serious stuff." |
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet, conductor
Boismortier - Serenades francaises [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] 2002 Grammy Award Nomination |
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 |
NICOLAS CLERAMBAULT
Clerambault: Le Triomphe D'iris / Pastorale (1706) Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] "This is delightful, hearty music. Naxos has made another valuable addition to the recorded repertoire at a price that even the most penurious collector can afford." American Record Guide |
DESMAREST
Grands Motets Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] |
JOSEPH MICHEL
Michel: Lecons De Tenebres Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/1998 ] Recorded March/April 1997 |
PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas Laura Pudwell, Peter Harvey, Salomé Haller / Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "This lively account by Le Concert Spirituel, with mainly English singers, led by Laura Pudwell...but an excellent French chorus, is fresh and exhilarating, one or two dubious vocal decorations apart." Sunday Times, 21st July 2013 |
JEAN GILLES
Requiem & Diligam te, Domine Mellon, Gens, Crook, Hervé Lamy, Kooy / La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Herreweghe's 1990 performance was the first modern reading of Gilles' celebrated Requiem from manuscript |
PAUL DUKAS
Oeuvres pour piano [Pieces for piano] Hervé Billaut (piano) [ Mirare / CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] For the 150th anniversary of Paul Dukas, Herve Billaut's new CD focusses on his piano music. Out of the 14 works composed by Paul Dukas (only 14!), 6 were written for the piano. The two most substantial works are the Sonata of 1899-1900, and... |