Composer: Jean Gilles
Performer: Les Pages & Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Eugénie Lefebvre, David Witczak, Sebastian Monti, Clément Debieuvre
Orchestra: Les Folies Françoises
Conductor: Fabien Armengaud
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles
Catalogue: CVS104
Release: 2023
Size: 1.25 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Domine Deus meus
01. Symphonie, récit et chœur : Domine Deus meus, in te speravi
02. Récit de basse-taille et chœur : Si reddidi retribuentibus mihi mala
03. Trio : Judica me, Domine, secundum justitiam meam
04. Récit de haute-contre : Domine, Deus meus, in te speravi
05. Quatuor et chœur: Justum adjutorium meum a Domino
06. Récit de basse-taille : Nisi conversi fueritis
07. Récit de taille : Ecce parturiit injustitiam
08. Chœur : Lacum aperuit et effodit eum
09. Récit de haute-contre : Convertetur dolor ejus
10. Duo et chœur : Confitebor Domino
Messe des Morts
11. Introït
12. Kyrie
13. Graduel Offertoire
14. Domine Jesu Christe
15. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine
16. Fac eas Domine
17. Sanctus
18. Agnus Dei
19. Post-communion
Jean Gilles (Tarascon, 1688), Chapel Master of Toulouse Cathedral from 1697, was a genius struck down at the age of just 37, in 1705. The entire kingdom admired his famed Mass for the Dead, which was played at his own funeral “he sealed his score with his last will and testament, in which he asked that the Chapter have this mass sung to lay his soul to rest”, then performed throughout the century, both in concert and for the funerals of Campra (1744), Rameau (1764) and Louis XV (1774). Fabien Armengaud and his ensemble from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles perform this masterpiece with the addition of a new motet, Domine Deus Meus, replete with dramatic effects including an awe-inspiring tempest. Gilles’ composition, with its extraordinary expansiveness and mastery of counterpoint, epitomises the nobility that makes French Grand Siecle religious music so incomparable, glorified by this Requiem AEternam…