610696472311

Couperin: Exultent Superi/ Motets Choisis

Couperin

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Format: CD

Cat No: NCR1384

Release Date:  25 September 2011

Label:  Novum

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  610696472311

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Couperin

  • Description

    This latest release from NOVUM is a CD of motets by Francois Couperin (1668-1733), the greatest figure in the French musical scene of the early 18th century. Everybody knows his fabulous harpsichord pieces, few his equally fabulous motets. Why? Many of them were effectively lost for over 200 years, and some have survived only in incomplete form. As a result, the motets are a sorely neglected part of his output. This New College release puts that right. Something like half the CD is of music never before recorded. The incomplete sources - violin parts lost soon after composition - have been reconstituted here by Edward Higginbottom, musicologist as well as Director of New College Choir. The CD features solo voices from New College Choir, including two exceptional trebles and a real hautecontre, together with an instrumental ensemble of distinguished baroque players, the whole ensemble directed from the keyboard by Edward Higginbottom.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Resonent Organa a 3 Et Symphonies. Pro Sancta Cecilia
      • 2. Tantum Ergo Sacramentum a 3
      • 3. Ornate Aras. Elevation a Voix Seule Et Symphonie
      • 4. Lauda Sion Salvatorem. Elevation a 2
      • 5. O Domine Quia Refugium. Precatio Ad Deum a 3
      • 6. O Misterium Ineffabile. Elevation
      • 7. Ad Te Levavi Oculos Meos a Voix Seule Et Symphonie. Psal. (122)
      • 8. Domine Salvum Fac Regem a 2
      • 9. Exultent Superi a 3 Et Symphonie