Composer: François Couperin, Sébastien de Brossard
Performer: Lucy Crowe, Elizabeth Watts, La Nuova Musica
Conductor: David Bates
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMU807659
Release: 2016
Size: 1.21 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Couperin: Leçons de ténèbres pour le mercredy, Première Leçon, à une voix
01. I. Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae
02. II. Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola
03. Beth. Plorans ploravit in nocte
04. IV. Ghimel. Migravit Juda
05. V. Daleth. Viae Sion lugent
06. VI. He. Facti sunt hostes
07. VII. Jerusalem, convertere
08. Brossard: Sonate en trio en Mi Mineur, SdB. 220
Couperin: Seconde Leçon, à une voix
09. I. Vau. Et egressus est
10. II. Zain. Recordata est Jerusalem
11. III. Heth. Peccatum peccavit Jerusalem
12. IV. Heth. Peccatum peccavit Jerusalem
13. V. Jerusalem, convertere
14. Brossard: Sonate en trio en La Mineur, SdB. 223
Couperin: Leçons de ténèbres pour le mercredy, Troisième Leçon
15. I. Jod. Manum suam misit hostis
16. II. Caph. Omnis populis ejus
17. III. Lamed. O vos omnes
18. IV. Mem. De excelso misit ignem
19. V. Nun. Vigilavit jugum
20. VI. Jerusalem, convertere
Brossard: Stabat Mater, SdB. 8
21. I. Stabat mater dolorosa
22. II. Cujus animam gementem
23. III. O quam tristis
24. IV. Quae maerebat et dolebat
25. V. Quis est homo
26. VI. Pro peccatis suae gentis
27. VII. Vidit suum dulcem natum
28. VIII. Eia mater, fons amoris
29. IX. Sancta Mater, istud agas
30. X. Tui nati vulnerati
31. XI. Virgo virginum praeclara
32. XII. Fac ut portem Christi mortem
François Couperin’s ‘Leçons de Ténèbres’ (c. 1713-17), a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, fused devotional expression with a dramatic performing style embodied here by sopranos Lucy Crowe and Elizabeth Watts. Two Trio Sonatas and a ‘Stabat Mater’ by Sébastien de Brossard round out this luminous programme.
La Nuova Musica was founded by its artistic director David Bates in 2007 whilst in residency at Snape Maltings and was hailed by BBC Radio 3 as “one of the most exciting consorts in the early music field”. They are regular contributors at Aldeburgh Music, St John’s Smith Square, London Handel Festival, Wigmore Hall and Spitalfields Music. Highlights of 2015 were a performance of ‘Acis and Galatea’ at SJSS which received a 5* review in The Times, describing it as “a reading that sparkled from the giddy overture to the consoling final chorus” followed by a concert performance of Cesti’s ‘Orontea’, where “Bates’ conducting had superb poise, and the cast was impeccable, with not a weak link anywhere” (The Guardian).
In 2016 LNM will also record Pergolesi’s ‘Stabat Mater’ and Bach Cantatas with Lucy Crowe and Tim Mead. Concert performance highlights for 2016 include Handel’s ‘Berenice’ at the Göttingen Internationale Händel Festspiele; their debut at the Salzburg Festival with Bejun Mehta; and an exciting collaboration with American choreographer Zack Winokur on Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ at the Brighton International Festival, with Dame Ann Murray singing the title role.