Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Léçons de Ténèbres (1993, 1995)
Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Léçons de Ténèbres (1993, 1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 974 Mb | Total time: 63:52+66:13+70:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | 5 45107 2 / 5 45075 2 / 7 59295 2 | Recorded: 1992-1994
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 974 Mb | Total time: 63:52+66:13+70:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | 5 45107 2 / 5 45075 2 / 7 59295 2 | Recorded: 1992-1994
The services of Matins and Lauds in the Roman rite for the last three days of Holy Week, the so-called Sacred Triduum are – or were before being replaced by the vernacular liturgy – beautiful and complex. Matins for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday consist of psalms with antiphons, readings from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and versicles and responsories related to and reflecting upon the events of those days. Over the centuries they have proved fruitful inspiration for music, even in post-reformation England, where the Book of Common Prayer continued to prescribe readings from Lamentations and settings of them, often in Latin, continued to be sung in cathedrals and collegiate churches.
It is a human tendency to anticipate and the services of Holy Week and Easter have been especially susceptible to anticipation, so that many Roman Catholic and Anglican churches often used to celebrate the first Mass of Easter during the afternoon or even the morning of the previous day, Holy Saturday. Even now the Paschal Fire is often kindled well before midnight.
Matins in monastic usage is a night office, but the tradition arose in France in the late 16th and 17th centuries of anticipating the Matins of the Sacred Triduum on the evening of the previous day, often in a dramatic fashion. A hearse of candles behind the altar would be extinguished one by one until a single candle was left alight, to signify Christ, the Light of the World – hence the name Tenebræ, in French Ténèbres, meaning ‘darkness’ – and the psalms, antiphons, readings and responsories would be performed in a mixture of chant and more elaborate settings with instruments. So prevalent was this practice that it took a Papal Decree in 1955 to restore these services to their proper liturgical places.
Charpentier composed a large number of settings for texts associated with Tenebræ, rather than complete settings of the office, all of them works of great beauty and most of them intense, almost operatic. From these Gérard Lesne has on this recording put together an assemblage from different collections to represent what might have been performed – not quite the kind of liturgical reconstruction for which Paul McCreesh has become famous, but a feasible representation.
I can’t imagine better performances: singing, direction and accompaniment are excellent – Lesne himself is one of the vocal treasures as well as directing the performances – and the recording is equally first-class. Il Seminario Musicale is a small group; its personnel changed slightly between the two recording dates, but both sets of performers offer discreet and effective support.–Brian Wilson
Performer:
Office du Mercredi Saint:
Caroline Greuillet, soprano
Caroline Pelon, soprano
Gérard Lesne, haute-contre
Christopher Purves, baritone
Office du Jeudi Saint:
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Gérard Lesne, haute-contre
Ian Honeyman, tenor
Peter Harvey, baritone
Office du Vendredi Saint:
Agnès Mellon, soprano
Gérard Lesne, haute-contre
Ian Honeyman, tenor
Jacques Bona, bass-baritone
Il Seminario Musicale
Gérard Lesne, direction
Tracklist:
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
CD1:
Office du Mercredi Saint
01. Antienne Avertantur retrorsum, Psaume 69 Deus in adjutorium meum
02. Première leçon, H.120
03. Premier répons Seniores populi, H.117
04. Seconde leçon, H.138
05. Seconde répons Tristis est anima mea, H.126
06. Troisième leçon, H.141
07. Troisième répons Ecce quomodo, H.131
08. Psaume 50 Miserere, H.173
CD2:
Office du Jeudi Saint
01. Prelude en sol mineur, H.528
02. Antienne Habitabit in tabernaculo, Psaume 14 Domine, quis habitabit
03. Première leçon, H.121 – Jerusalem du H.138
04. Premier répons Omnes amici mei, H.144
05. Prelude en ré mineur, H.510
06. Seconde leçon, H.139 – Jerusalem du H.138
07. Second répons Velum templi scissum est, H.128
08. Troisième leçon, H.136 – Jerusalem du H.135
09. Troisième répons Tenebrae facta sunt
10. Prelude en fa majeur, H.521
11. Psaume 50 Miserere
CD3:
Office du Vendredi Saint
01. Antienne Astiterunt
02. Psaume 26 Dominus illuminatio mea
03. Première leçon a voix seule, H.105
04. Premier répons Tanquam ad latronem, H.133
05. Deuxième leçon a voix seule, H.140
06. Deuxième répons Jersusalem surge, H.130
07. Troisième leçon a deux voix, H.95
08. Troisième répons Vinea mea electa
09. Psaume 50 Miserere
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Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Léçons de Ténèbres (1993, 1995)
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