Du Mont: O Mysterium, Motets & Elevations
Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: 902241 Format: CD Sébastien Daucé (organ/direction) Ensemble CorrespondancesDumont, H: Memorare Jesu dulcedo cordium Desidero te millies O æterne misericors Deus Sub umbra noctis profundæ O Mysterium Allemande grave Ave Regina cælorum O dulcissima Quam pulchra es O præcelsum Super flumina Babylonis For 20 years (from 1663 to 1683) Henry Du Mont directed the music of the Sun King’s chapel. For the daily Mass there he built up a new repertory consisting of motets for full chorus and more intimate pieces for solo voices. The former aimed to transpose to the context of ‘ordinary’ the format of the large-scale works conceived for extraordinary ceremonies. Sébastien Daucé presents an innovative approach to these grands motets, that at once links specific musical features with historical data, for each of which he adopts a specific instrumental scoring. Price: $22.98 |