Lully - Grands Motets Vol.2: Miserere, Quare fremuerunt gentes, Jubilate Deo | Chateau de Versailles Spectacles CVS059

Lully - Grands Motets Vol.2: Miserere, Quare fremuerunt gentes, Jubilate Deo

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Label: Chateau de Versailles Spectacles

Cat No: CVS059

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 11th February 2022

Contents

Artists

Les Epopees

Conductor

Stephane Fuget

Works

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

Jubilate Deo
Miserere
Quare fremuerunt gentes, LWV67

Artists

Les Epopees

Conductor

Stephane Fuget

About

Here are assembled three Grands Motets by Lully, associated with key moments in the reign of Louis XIV. In 1660, the Jubilate Deo celebrating the Traité des Pyrénées (Treaty of the Pyrénées), and the king’s wedding, erupts in unheard proprtions, that no other composer in France had produced before, and with breathtaking modernity. The music is triumphant, with a French-style overture worthy of future operas, grand theatrical narratives and choruses alternating between plenitude and exaltation: the celebratory motet was thus born with dazzling panache. The Quare fremuerunt gentes, even more dramatic, celebrated la Paix de Ratisbonne (the Peace of Regensburg) in 1685 with powerful operatic accents. Finally, the Miserere (1664) is the most famous French motet of the 17th century. Played in 1672 for the funeral service of Chancellor Séguier, it brought tears to Madame de Sévigné’s eyes: “I don’t believe there is any other music in heaven.” Stéphane Fuget and his ensemble Les Epopées pursue their grace-filled cycle.

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