Lalande: Majesté – Vincent Dumestre

Retour à Versailles pour Vincent Dumestre et son Poème Harmonique avec les grandioses musiques composées par Lalande pour ce lieu extraordinaire sous Louis XIV.

Een terugkeer naar Versailles voor Vincent Dumestre en zijn Poème Harmonique met de geweldige muziek gecomponeerd door Lalande voor deze buitengewone plek ten tijde van Lodewijk XIV.

Choir & Organ (Nov, 2018)
Louis XIV recruited composer Michel-Richard de Lalande for his Chapel Royal and Majesté captures the febrile atmosphere in which Le Roi Soleil came close to deification in three ostensibly sacred works. Soloists, choir and orchestra of Ensemble Aedes bring an impressive emotional range, considerable style, elegance, colour and expertise to the veritable acoustics of Versailles, burnished with ‘spirit of place’. Spirited in spades is the recording of Benevolo’s Missa Si Deus pro nobis which finds classy French group Le Concert Spirituel in stunning form with polychoral Counter-Reformation delights in a recording that places the listener in the centre of a vast ecclesiastical space. Toe-curlingly sonorous, eight choirs of voices and instruments …