Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Performer: Les Arts Florissants
Conductor: William Christie
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HAF8905130
Release: 2021
Size: 381 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Antiennes “O” de l’Avent, H.36-43
01. Salut de la veille des O, “O salutaris hostia”
02. Premier O: “O Sapientia”
03. Second O, “O Adonai et dux domus Israel”
04. Troisième O, “O radix Jesse”
Noëls pour les instruments, H.534
05. “Les Bourgeois de Chastre”
Antiennes “O” de l’Avent, H.36-43
06. Quatrième O, “O clavis David”
Noëls pour les instruments, H.534
07. “Où s’en vont ces gays bergers”
Antiennes “O” de l’Avent, H.36-43
08. Cinquième O, “O Oriens splendor”
Noëls pour les instruments, H.534
09. “Joseph est bien marié”
Antiennes “O” de l’Avent, H.36-43
10. Sixième O, “O rex gentium”
Noëls pour les instruments, H.534
11. “Or nous dites Marie”
Antiennes “O” de l’Avent, H.36-43
12. Septième O, “O Emmanuel”
In Nativitatem Domini Canticum, H.416
13. I. Prélude
14. II. La Nuit
15. III. Réveil des Bergers
Sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, H.482
16. “Qu ‘il est charmant, qu ‘il a d’appas”
17. “Du pasteur que nous attendons”
Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed some of the most important works of Seventeenth-Century French music on the subject of the Nativity and its tutelary figure, the Virgin Mary, from dramatic oratorios in Latin to secular cantatas in the vernacular.
William Christie and Les Arts Florissants intuitively understood how to bring out the artless flavour of these lively and moving pieces.
This reissue confirms the sureness of touch with which the American musician and his ensemble immediately succeeded in grasping the essence of the music. A major re-release.