Emmanuel Mandrin, Jean Boyer, Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr - Louis-Nicolas Clérambault: Chants et motets, Livre d'Orgue (1994)
Emmanuel Mandrin, Jean Boyer, Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr - Louis-Nicolas Clérambault: Chants et motets, Livre d'Orgue (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 646 Mb | Total time: 68:36+66:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: FNAC | 592316 | Recorded: 1993
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 646 Mb | Total time: 68:36+66:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: FNAC | 592316 | Recorded: 1993
Clérambault was born in 1676 in Paris in a musical family whose members had served the kings of France since the 15th century. His father Dominique was a violinist and a member of the 24 violons du roi. Louis-Nicolas probably received his first music lessons from him. His organ teacher was André Raison to whom he dedicated his Livre d'orgue. His oeuvre is not very sizeable, but of consistently high quality. He was a major contributor to the genre of the chamber cantata which became popular in the early decades of the 18th century under the influence of the Italian style. Five books of such cantatas were published between 1710 and 1726. Het also wrote a small number of chamber music works, but the largest part of his oeuvre comprises music for liturgical purposes: the book with two suites for organ and motets and other sacred vocal works. It is likely that these were mostly written for Saint-Cyr.
In 1733 he published two volumes of Chants et Motets à l'usage de l'Eglise et Communauté des Dames de la Royale Maison de Saint-Louis à Saint-Cyr. The motets belong to the genre of the petit motet, scored for a small number of solo voices and basso continuo, sometimes with additional treble parts for violins or other instruments. In this collection the motets are scored for three solo voices - two sopranos and mezzo-soprano - and basso continuo. The choir is a petit choeur, more or less comparable with the ripienists in German sacred music. As these collections were designed exclusively for the girls of Saint-Cyr they omit the basso continuo part. However, the library of the Versailles palace includes a manuscript and from this and some other sources the missing bass part can be taken. This allows the performance of the Miserere on this disc. It is a part of Clérambault's oeuvre which is hardly explored as yet which is surprising if the quality of this piece is an indication of the quality of his entire output in this genre. The opening is telling: the very first word, "miserere", is set to a strong dissonant. The whole setting of this penitential psalm reveals Clérambault's responsiveness to the text.
The two organ suites are much better known, and are part of the standard repertoire of French organ music under the Ancien Régime. These are often performed independently - and that is certainly a legitimate option - but are in fact intended for the alternatim practice. That is how they are performed here. The liner-notes state: "The book was conceived to alternate either with pieces of the Ordinary of the Mass or with the Magnificat." For the first suite the latter has been chosen. However, there is a slight problem in that the number of organ verses exceeds the number needed for the Magnificat: seven instead of six. This problem has been solved by playing the surplus movement - the fugue between plein jeu and duo - at the end as an instrumental reprise of the opening antiphon. For the second suite another canticle was selected, the slightly longer Benedictus which fits Clérambault's suite perfectly.
Obviously Clérambault wanted his organ book to sell well. To that end he added a postscript in which he stated that he had composed his suites in such a way that they could be played on a large organ but also on a cabinet organ with divided manuals. The latter means that the descant and the bass can be registered differently, a feature of many Spanish and Italian organs with only one manual. He also suggested that if there were notes in the left hand which were too low they could be played an octave higher. It is not quite clear whether here two different organs are used. The booklet says that in the first suite the canticles are sung at the gallery with the large organ whereas in the second suite the vocal verses are performed with the "orgue positif Westenfelder". The latter restored the large organ in the 1990s. However, the booklet includes a specification of that organ, built by Jean Boizard in 1714, but has no information about a positive organ by Westerfelder. On the internet I could not find any information about the presence of a smaller organ in the abbey. Maybe the term "orgue positif" refers to the positif of the large organ.
This disc is a compilation of two recordings with music by Clérambault and seems to have been reissued to commemorate the death of the organist Jean Boyer in 2004. This probably explains that the liner-notes only give information about the two organ suites but nothing about the Miserere. It is also not mentioned that the basso continuo is not played by Boyer but by the ensemble's director, Emmanuel Mandrin. The production should have been more careful in this respect.
But the main thing is that the performances are of superior quality. Jean Boyer was a brilliant organist whose performances are not well represented on disc. He played a major role in the promotion and the interpretation of French classical organ music. This disc is a most welcome monument of his art. The Miserere is a fine work which is given an excellent interpretation by Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr.–Johan van Veen
Performer:
Jean Boyer, organ
Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr
Emmanuel Mandrin, director & organ
Tracklist:
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749)
CD1:
Miserere
01 Justicieris Domine
02 Miserere mei Deus
Suite du premier ton, Magnificat
03 Princeps Gloriosissime
04 Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum
05 Et Exultavit
06 Quia Respexit
07 Quia Fecit Mihi
08 Et Misericordia
09 Fecit Potentiam
10 Deposuit Potentes
11 Esurientes Implevit
12 Suscepit Israël
13 Sicut Locutus Est
14 Gloria Patri
15 Sicut Erat..
16 Princeps Gloriosissime
Motet Pour Le Roy, la Reine Et Le Dauphin
17 Exultet in Domino
Pour un Salut du Saint Sacrement
18 O Salutaris Hostia
19 O Felix Maria
20 Hic Vir Despiciens Mundum
21 Cantate Vincentium
22 Tantum Ergo
23 Domine Salvum Fac Regem
CD2:
Motets Pour Le Calendrier de L'Eglise
01 (Noël): Hodie Christus Natus est
02 (Noël): Gloria in Excellais Deo
03 (Carème): Domine Ante Te
04 (Pâques): Immolabit Haedum
05 (Pâques): Ad Caenam Agni Providi
06 (Pâques): Regina Caeli Laetare
07 (Assomption de la Ste Vierge): Hodie Maria Virgo Carlos Ascendit
08 (Dédicace de la Saint-Michel): Factum Est Silentium In Carlo
09 (Tous les Saints): Exultate Deo
10 (Trépassés): De Profundis Clamavi
Suite de Deuxième Ton + Benedictus
11 Beata Dei Genitrix
12 Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël
13 Et Erexit Cornu Salutis Nobis
14 Sicut Locutus Est
15 Salutem Ex Inimicis Nostris
16 Ad Faciendam Misericordia
17 Jusjurandum Quod Juravit
18 Ut Sine Timore De Manu
19 In Sanctitate Et Justicia
20 Et tu Puer Propheta
21 Ad Dandam Scientiam
22 Per Viscera Misericordiae
23 Illuminare His Qui In Tenebris
24 Gloria Patri
25 Sicuri Erat
26 Beata Dei Genitrix
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