COMPANY: Chateau de Versailles
ARTIST: Eugenie Lefebvre
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Various Composers

Product: 3770011431977

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Tenebres & Abysses

Lecons pour la Semaine Sainte

Eugenie Lefebvre (Sopran), Ensemble Leviathan, Lucile Tessier (Fagott & Leitung)

Music of darkness
At the time of Louis XIV and Louis XV, Leçons de Ténèbres were among the musical highlights during the night services of Holy Week, during which the church interior was further darkened after each leçon. In the settings by Delalande, Fiocco, and Pollio presented here, one can detect an increasing theatricality and the influence of the Italian style, which did not stop at the church at that time. With her Ensemble Léviathan, Lucile Tessier offers the melismas of soprano Eugénie Lefebvre a stage worthy of the royal chapel.

Joseph Hector Fiocco (1703-1741), Antoine (1671-1745) & Jean-Baptiste-Antoine (1699-1782) Forqueray (18. Jahrhundert), Pierre-Louis Pollio (1724-1796), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Michel Richard Delalande (1657-1726)

Hector-Joseph Fiocco: Lamentatio Prima
+Jean-Baptiste oder Antoine Forqueray: Suite a 3 voices
+Pierre-Louis Pollio: Premiere lecon de Jeremie du Samedi Saint
+Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Sonate für 3 Flöten
+Joseph Michel: Troisieme lecon du deuxieme jour
+Michel-Richard Delalande: Troisieme lecon du Vendredy