Componisten/uitvoerenden: André Campra | Henry Desmarest | Jean-Baptiste Lully | Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Browsing through Early Music. Splendour and grandeur: the world of the Grand Motet. Episode 1/3.
The Grand Motet is a religious composition with a Latin text, for soloists, choir and a big orchestra. It is the most important religious music form in the 17th and 18th century and flourished under the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
The Grands Motets are usually based on a hymn and have a ceremonial character. Important composers of Grand Motets are Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc Antoine Charpentier, Henry Desmarest and Michel–Richard de Lalande.
André Campra (1660-1744)
1. De Profundis:
– Symphonie
– De profundis clamavi
– Si iniquitates
– Quia apud te
– A custodia
– Quia apud Dominum
– Et ipse redimet
– Koor: Requiem
Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie
(CD Campra – Grands Motets. Virgin Veritas 5 45555 2)
Marc Antoine Charpentier (1644-1704)
2. Sonate à huit, H.548
– Grave
– Récit de la basse viole
– Sarabande
– Récit de la basse de violon
– Bourrée
– Gavotte
– Gigue
– Passacaille
– Chaconne
London Baroque conducted by Charles Medlam
(CD Marc Antoine Charpentier. HMA 1901244)
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711-1772)
3. Dominus regnavit
– Dominus regnavit
– Et enim firmavit
– Parata sedes
– Eleaverunt flumina
– Testimonia tua
– Gloria Patri
Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie
(CD Mondonville – Grands motets. Erato 0630 17791-2)
Image: Marc Antoine Charpentier
