Stradivaria, Les Cris de Paris, Daniel Cuiller – Henry Madin: Te Deum pour les victoires de Louis XV (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:04 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Pour la premire fois depuis sa cration au XVIII sicle, le Te Deum pour les Victoires de Louis XV d’Henry Madin rsonne en 2015 dans la Chapelle Royale de Versailles. Stradivaria, ensemble baroque de Nantes dirig par Daniel Cuiller, et Les Cris de Paris, choeur de chambre dirig par Geoffroy Jourdain, reprennent l’oeuvre du compositeur n Verdun en 1698 et qui fut sousmatre de la Chapelle du Roi partir de 1738. L’interprtation du Te Deum, le plus long compos sous l’Ancien Rgime, est complte par celle du Diligam te, Domine, l’une des oeuvres principales de Madin qui s’inscrit dans le style du motet grand choeur. Lors d’un concert unique et immortalis, les deux oeuvres ont repris vie dans ce lieu historique hautement symbolique et sont prsentes aujourd’hui dans la Collection Alpha / Chteau de Versailles qui compte dsormais plus d’une dizaine de titres.
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Lucile Richardot, Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain – Berio To Sing (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:03 minutes | 1001 MB | Genre: Classical
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Few twentieth-century creators have been as inventive as Berio in their relationship with the history of music, with popular and ancestral traditions, drawing material, as he did, from both Beatles hits and the soundscapes of street and market. Here Geoffroy Jourdain paints the portrait of an explorer with a passion for the human voice. Truculent and volcanic in Sequenza III (performed with panache by Lucile Richardot), lyrical and caressing in E si fussi pisci, solemn and spellbinding in Cries of London. “Berio To Sing” throws open the doors to a colourful universe, extravagantly playful and, in a word, exhilarating!
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Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain – Melancholia (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:09 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Classical
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A most unusual cabinet of curiosities ‘Finding pleasure even in meditating on what causes one’s pain’: that neatly defines the theme of this album of music from the cusp of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Here Italian and English madrigals rub shoulders with motets and Tenebrae responsories. A melancholic poetry that provided endless nourishment for musical creativity in the late Renaissance, and which Geoffroy Jourdain presents in his first recording for harmonia mundi.
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Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain – Passions (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:54 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Alternating between transcendentally inspired secular music and sacred music embodied in theatrical fashion, Geoffroy Jourdain invites us to explore the multiple expressions of human passions: this new adventure of Les Cris de Paris, built around several settings of the ‘Crucifixus’ (including Lotti’s extraordinarily intense versions), urges us to follow a bold Via Dolorosa to the very heart of Venetian Baroque music.
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Le Poème Harmonique, Les Cris de Paris, Vincent Dumestre – Son of England (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Classical
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Henry Purcell died on 21 November 1695 at the age of thirty- six. The music he had written for the funeral of Queen Mary only eight months earlier was performed again for his burial service. Soon afterwards, several composers paid tribute to Purcell by writing odes in his memory. Jeremiah Clarke’s homage to ‘Orpheus Britannicus’ in his Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell is a deeply moving token of the younger composer’s admiration. Alas, Clarke too was destined to die in his prime, and we can only imagine what the destiny of British music might have been if their lives had been prolonged. After an acclaimed production of Dido and Aeneas, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique continue their exploration of the world of Purcell and seventeenth-century English music. Constantly keeping an ear out for multiple musical ramifications, from Dowland to Lully by way of the Elizabethan masques, this new programme spotlights the genius of Jeremiah Clarke, whose sadly premature death makes us regret all the marvels he might have produced. Here is a collection of masterpieces coupling two of Purcell’s most popular works with an exceptional discovery. (c) Alpha Classics
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Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain – Schütz: David & Salomon. Psalmi, Canticum Canticorum (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:41 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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Geoffroy Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris introduce us to a facet of Heinrich Schütz that is often overlooked: his works directly inspired by Italy, and more especially by Venice, where he worked closely with Giovanni Gabrieli. In this programme of music, sometimes deeply spiritual, sometimes with a strong secular influence, ranging from duets to large choral ensembles, we meet a rich and radiant composer with myriad colours in his palette. An enchanting disc!
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