Western religious music from different centuries.
This episode we will be listening to two so-called ‘grands motets’ by an unknown French baroque composer: Joseph Valette de Montigny (1665-1738).
Joseph Valette de Montigny was born in Languedoc and worked in the south of France for the largest part of his life, of which the last ten years in Toulouse.
Due to the one-sided attention for the music composed and performed in Paris and Versailles, he – like other composers who worked elsewhere in France – stayed under the radar.
The two motets in this programme show that this is not justified.
Joseph Valette de Montigny (1665-1738)
1. Surge propera Sion filia
2. Salvum me fac Deus
Eva Tamisier, Coline Bouton, soprano. David Tricou, Charles d’Hubert, haute-contre. Pierre Perny, Clément Lanfranchi, tenor. Timothé Bougon, baritone. Raphaël Marbaud, bass. Ensemble Antiphona conducted by Rolandas Muleika
(CD: “Grands Motets” – Paraty 321262, 2021)
addition:
Pierre du Mage (1676-1751)
3. Grand jeu
André Isoir, organ
(CD: “Le Livre d’Or d’Orgue français” – la dolce volta LDV 147.2, 2013)
Pictured: Ensemble Antiphona
