Bowman, Chance, King, Caudle - Couperin: Lecons De Tenebres (2013)
Bowman, Chance, King, Caudle - Couperin: Lecons De Tenebres (2013)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 229 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 150 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios | Catalog Number: 55455
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 229 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 150 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios | Catalog Number: 55455
Couperin’s Trois Leçons de Ténèbres are amongst the small amount of the composer’s sacred music that was published during his lifetime. They are intensely personal, depicting the prophet Jeremiah’s bitter anguish in settings that are quite unique. Also included here are Couperin’s joyful motets Laetentur caeli and Venite, exsultemus Domino, and a remarkable Magnificat.
Countertenors James Bowman and Michael Chance are celebrated not only as great soloists but matchless duettists.
Composer: François Couperin
Performer: James Bowman, Michael Chance, Robert King, Mark Caudle
Reviews: I missed this the first time it came around ( Fanfare 15:6) and I don’t have most of the more recent issues of the famous Three Lessons of Tenebrae for comparison, so I have to go back to Jean-Christophe Frisch on K617 (not reviewed here), Gérard Lesne on Harmonic (not reviewed here), Mieke van der Sluis (14:3), and Emma Kirkby (3:5). While I heartily approved of the last two when they were new, Gérard Lesne made an incomparable version that has not been widely available, the only version to follow each lesson with the correct chant responsory. (The wonderful Harmonic Classics label works or used to work out of a seaport on the coast of Brittany.) Short of that, this is a worthy interpretation, filled out with two motets and a Magnificat for full value. There was a time when James Bowman and Michael Chance were not numbered among my favorite countertenors, but this time they sing very well together. At a more modest price, this will please most buyers.
Tracklisting:
[1] Laetentur caeli
[2] Venite, exsultemus Domino
[3]-[5] Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
[6] Magnificat
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 1. May 2015, 21:44
James Bowman, Michael Chance, Mark Caudle, Robert King / Couperin - Lecons de Tenebres
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EAC extraction logfile from 1. May 2015, 21:44
James Bowman, Michael Chance, Mark Caudle, Robert King / Couperin - Lecons de Tenebres
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GU70N Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "Date=%year%" -T "Genre=%genre%" %source%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 6:56.62 | 0 | 31261
2 | 6:56.62 | 5:18.13 | 31262 | 55124
3 | 12:15.00 | 15:45.12 | 55125 | 126011
4 | 28:00.12 | 12:31.63 | 126012 | 182399
5 | 40:32.00 | 11:11.00 | 182400 | 232724
6 | 51:43.00 | 11:26.00 | 232725 | 284174
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Peak level 95.8 %
Extraction speed 5.2 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 9C182E72
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Copy OK
No errors occurred
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You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database
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