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    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Johann Christoph Vogel: La Toison d’or (2013)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Johann Christoph Vogel: La Toison d’or (2013)

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Johann Christoph Vogel: La Toison d’or (2013)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 624 Mb | Total time: 45:41+63:35 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 921628 | Recorded: 2012

    A contemporary of Mozart, Johann Christoph Vogel also died at an early age. Forward looking in approach, this composer of a tormented disposition, sought to extend the operatic revolution undertaken by Gluck in the 1770s. First performed in 1786 at the Opéra de Paris, 'La Toison d’or' reveals that search for an expressive art which demanded an all-embracing involvement from the performers and supplied the music with a sometimes unbearable intensity for audiences of the time.

    Luc Beauséjour, Hervé Niquet - Musique française à deux clavecins: Boismortier, Leclair, Dieupart, Duphly (1999)

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    Luc Beauséjour, Hervé Niquet - Musique française à deux clavecins: Boismortier, Leclair, Dieupart, Duphly (1999)

    Luc Beauséjour, Hervé Niquet - Musique française à deux clavecins: Boismortier, Leclair, Dieupart, Duphly (1999)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 325 Mb | Total time: 53:40 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Analekta | FL 2 3079 | Recorded: 1999

    The transcription and arrangement of musical works was common practice in the 18th century. Such illustrious musicians as François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau left remarkable "manners" and examples of transcriptions for one or two harpsichords. In his preface to L'Apothéose de Lulli, published in 1725, François Couperin explains how his music for two dessus (treble parts) and bass can be played on two harpsichords: "I perform them very successfully with my family and pupils with the first dessus and the bass played on one harpsichord, and the second dessus and the same bass-line on another, in unison."

    Véronique Gens, Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Visions (2017)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Véronique Gens, Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Visions (2017)

    Véronique Gens, Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Visions (2017)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 55:43 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 279 | Recorded: 2017

    After an album of French songs (Néère, Alpha 215) that earned her a Gramophone Award in 2016, Véronique Gens presents her new recital, this time with orchestra, which gives her an opportunity to display the maturity of her ‘Falcon’ soprano, the central tessitura typical of French Romantic opera, which takes its name from Cornélie Falcon, who created the works of Meyerbeer and Halévy staged in the 1830s.

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Ballets de Village et Sérénade (1998)

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    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Ballets de Village et Sérénade (1998)

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Ballets de Village et Sérénade (1998)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 450 Mb | Total time: 74:44 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.554295 | Recorded: 1997

    Joseph Boismortier was a French Baroque composer who had to live by his wits, having no patrons or prestigious positions. The notes for this CD quote Jean-Benjamin’s assessment in 1780: “Happy is he, Boismortier, whose fertile quill each month, without pain, conceives new airs at will.” Boismortier, for lack of a better answer to his critics, would always answer: “I am earning money.” His four Ballets de Village are rustic suites that make extensive use of the musette and hurdy-gurdy, instruments considered country cousins, not to be used in “serious” music. Boismortier writes for them with great skill; the droning din they set up is most appealing.

    Hervé Niquet, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra - Max d'Ollone: Cantates, chœurs & musique symphonique (2013)

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    Hervé Niquet, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra - Max d'Ollone: Cantates, chœurs & musique symphonique (2013)

    Hervé Niquet, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Flemish Radio Choir - Max d'Ollone: Cantates, chœurs & musique symphonique (2013)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 782 Mb | Total time: 51:06+54:40 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Ediciones Singulares ‎| ES 1010 | Recorded: 2012

    Who today has heard of Max d'Ollone? He studied with Massenet, was a contemporary of Richard Strauss, composed operas and cultivated a sensuous and deeply Romantic approach to vocal music. The Prix de Rome competition gave him the opportunity to compose several impressive cantatas and pieces for chorus and orchestra, characterised by a combination of grandeur and refinement.

    Hervé Niquet, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Flemish Radio Choir - Félicien David: Herculanum (2015)

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    Hervé Niquet, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Flemish Radio Choir - Félicien David: Herculanum (2015)

    Hervé Niquet, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Flemish Radio Choir - Félicien David: Herculanum (2015)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 914 Mb | Total time: 72:58+49:06 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Ediciones Singulares ‎| # ES 1020 | Recorded: 2014

    Félicien David was already famous through his 'ode-symphonie' Le Désert (1844) when his opera Herculanum was first staged at the Paris Opéra in 1859. This ambitious work, later to gain him entrance to the Opéra-Comique and the Institut de France, also played a part in earning him the Légion d'Honneur. Leaving behind the Middle Eastern inflections of his earlier scores, Herculanum is a remarkably strong composition (vast, intensely dramatic scenes), impressive in the diversity of its style (including Verdian influences) and its vocal variety (including the rare coloratura contralto voice often used by Rossini).

    Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persée (2005)

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    Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persée (2005)

    Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persée (2005)
    NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Francais (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 127 min | 7,47 Gb (DVD9)
    Classical | Label: EuroArts | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch | Recorded: 2004

    In his position as the king’s composer, Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) created the opera Persée for Louis XIV. The opera was considered the crowning achievement of 17th century French music theatre and was widely recognized as Lully’s greatest work. Filled with dancing, fight scenes, monsters and special effects, this truly spectacular music drama recounts the thrilling story of Perseus, son of Zeus and heroic vanquisher of the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa. More than half a century after its premiere, Louis XV chose “Persée” to open the new Royal Opera House at the Chateau de Versailles, an event that formed part of the celebrations for the future Louis XVI’s marriage to Marie Antoinette.

    Emőke Baráth, Philippe Estèphe, Le Concert Spirituel & Hervé Niquet - Fauré: Requiem - Gounod: Messe de Clovis (2024)

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    Emőke Baráth, Philippe Estèphe, Le Concert Spirituel & Hervé Niquet - Fauré: Requiem - Gounod: Messe de Clovis (2024)

    Emőke Baráth, Philippe Estèphe, Le Concert Spirituel & Hervé Niquet - Fauré: Requiem - Gounod: Messe de Clovis (2024)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 271 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:06
    Classical, Sacred, Vocal, Choral | Label: Alpha Classics

    While Fauré's Requiem is a monument of French sacred music, Gounod's Messe de Clovis is much less well known. It was composed from 1891 onwards as a tribute to Clovis who, like Joan of Arc, had become an iconic figure after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. The two works share a reflective and intimate character that gives the impression of a return to the purity of Gregorian chant, although this does not detract from the jubilant character of Fauré's Requiem: "this warm, luxuriant sound leads to an elevation of the spirit", says Hervé Niquet. The work is recorded here in its 1893 version, in an orchestration that uses neither violins nor woodwind; a later version with full orchestra was published in July 1900. O salutaris by Louis Aubert (1877-1968) for soprano, violin, harp, organ and choir and L'Adagio for violin and organ by André Caplet (1878-1925) complete this programme, a co-production with the Palazzetto Bru Zane and performed with fervour by the Concert Spirituel.

    Hervé Niquet, Les Boréades - François Cosset: Messe super flumina Babylonis (2002)

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    Hervé Niquet, Les Boréades - François Cosset: Messe super flumina Babylonis (2002)

    Hervé Niquet, Les Boréades - François Cosset: Messe super flumina Babylonis (2002)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 64:21 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Atma Classique | ACD22285 | Recorded: 2001

    François Cosset (c. 1610-1664) composed a proportion of his music for performance in a convent. It is therefore scored for high voices, and this includes the present work - a polyphonic Missa Super flumina Babylonis for six high voices and small complement of period instruments. Interspersed among the Mass movements here are a number of ‘petits motets’ by Lully and others, also for soprano voices, along with a few instrumental pieces.

    Véronique Gens, Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Paysage: Dubois, Hahn, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Gounod (2023)

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    Véronique Gens, Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Paysage: Dubois, Hahn, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Gounod (2023)

    Véronique Gens, Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Paysage: Dubois, Hahn, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Gounod (2023)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 234 Mb | Total time: 56:22 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 1030 | Recorded: 2021

    In this recital, Véronique Gens and Hervé Niquet bring back to life a neglected aspect of France’s Romantic heritage: songs with orchestral accompaniment. Aside from a few pieces by Debussy and Duparc, and Berlioz’s famous Nuits d’été, orchestral mélodies form a virtually forgotten continent. In collaboration with the specialists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Alpha Classics now revisits these musical landscapes, taking us from Brittany (Hahn) to Persia, whose beauties Fauré and Saint-Saëns exalt in very different ways. Mélodies by Chausson, Gounod and Dubois and rarely heard instrumental pieces by Massenet, Fauré and Fernand de La Tombelle round out the journey with their musical reveries.

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Sacred Music Vol. 4 (2000)

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    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Sacred Music Vol. 4 (2000)

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Motets, Litanies à la Vierge (2000)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 319 Mb | Total time: 67:36 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.554453 | Recorded: 1998

    Charpentier here offers elegant and intimate music that ranges from the delicate to the exuberant, the lyrical, and the dramatic. Most if not all of these pieces were probably written for the musical establishment of the Duchess of Guise, who was Charpentiers patron from 1670 until her death in 1688. The performing forces on this recording consist of five singes, two obligato violins and a continuo ensemble with theorbos the most prominent harmony instruments. While some of he music could conceivably be performed with larger forces, the chamber-like scale of these readings suites the character of the music admirably. Both texts and music suggest private household devotion rather than public liturgy. Texts range from the traditional seasonal Marian Antiphons to anonymous Latin devotional poetry of the Counter-Reformation.

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Grands Motets (1998)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Grands Motets (1998)

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Grands Motets (1998)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 377 Mb | Total time: 68:12 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | 5 61526 2 | Recorded: 1992

    … Niquet casts the three surviving grands motets from strength, with the likes of Stephan Imbodem and Véronique Gens among his other soloists. His conducting is alert, rhythmically buoyant, and attentive to both musical and word values, as the multi-tempo hurdles of “Converte, Domine” show. Details are never lost, but neither is momentum. The choral and orchestral work of Le Concert Spirituel is first-rate, with a precision that doesn’t rule out a refined color palette.

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Sacred Music Vol. 3 (1996)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Sacred Music Vol. 3 (1996)

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum, Mass, Motets, Canticum Zachariae (1996)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 280 Mb | Total time: 57:05 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.553175 | Recorded: 1996

    The Canticum Zachariae dates from 1687, and its lovely six-part Benedictus shows Charpentier in characteristically fluent lyrical and contrapuntal form. The four-part Mass—the first of the composer’s eleven settings—which opens simply, extends to six voices in the Sanctus, with the spirited Hosanna extended to double choir. But it is the short Agnus Dei, serenely beautiful, that haunts the memory.

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Vêpres à la Vierge (1995)

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    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Vêpres à la Vierge (1995)

    Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Sacred Music Vol. 2 - Vêpres à la Vierge (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 61:18 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553174 | Recorded: 1995

    This release offers a liturgical reconstruction of the Vespers office. The five Vesper psalms and Magnificat belong to different periods in Charpentier's life and the six antiphons are by his organist-composer contemporary, Nivers. The reconstruction works well and Le Concert Spirituel, under Hervé Niquet, demonstrates its rapport with Charpentier's music. The vocal sound is fresh and the wide range of musical Affekt shows off a greater diversity of tonal colour.

    Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Le Tribut de Zamora (2018)

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    Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Le Tribut de Zamora (2018)

    Hervé Niquet, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Charles Gounod: Le Tribut de Zamora (2018)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 753 Mb | Total time: 73:44+67:29 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Bru Zane | # BZ1033 | Recorded: 2018

    After Polyeucte (1878), Gounod tackled the operatic genre for the last time in 1881 with what is probably his most ambitious work, Le Tribut de Zamora. The action takes place in ninth-century Spain – from Act Two onwards, on ‘a picturesque site on the banks of the Guadalquivir before Córdoba’. Here Gounod – finally noted more for his neoclassical pastiches (Le Médecin malgré lui and Cinq-Mars) and his ardent Romanticism (Faust and Roméo et Juliette) – was given an opportunity to display his talents as an orchestrator and colourist in an exotic setting. He produced an epic in the tradition of French grand opéra, with numerous ensembles and showpiece airs.