Brossard - Grand Motets / Collot · Padaut · Fouchécourt · Ragon · Lallouette · Corréas · Accentus · EB Limoges · Coin [Import]

Sébastien de Brossard (Performer), Christophe Coin (Performer), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Performer), Gilles Ragon (Performer), Ensemble Baroque de Limoges (Performer), Accentus Chamber Choir (Artist), Delphine Collot (Artist), Catherine Padaut (Artist), Olivier Lallouette (Artist), Jérôme Corréas (Artist), Laurence Équilbey (Artist), Mathieu Lecroart (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Sébastien de Brossard, Christophe Coin, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Gilles Ragon, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges
• Audio CD (June 10, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Astree
• ASIN: B0000017OO
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #965,504 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Preludio

2. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: In Convertendo

3. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Tunc Repletum

4. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Tunc Dicent

5. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Magnificavit Dominus

6. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Converte, Domine

7. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Qui Seminant

8. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Euntes Ibant Et Flebant

9. Psalm 125 'In Convertendo Dominus,' grand motet: Venientes Autem

10. Psalm 50 'Miserere Mei, Deus,' grand motet: Simphonie/Miserere Mei, Deus

11. Psalm 50 'Miserere Mei, Deus,' grand motet: Quoniam Iniquitatem Meam Ego Cognosco

12. Psalm 50 'Miserere Mei, Deus,' grand motet: Cor Mundum Crea In Me, Deus

13. Psalm 50 'Miserere Mei, Deus,' grand motet: Sacrificium Deo Spiritus Contribulatus

14. Canticum Eucharisticum pro Pace, grand motet: Sonata Ad Libitum

15. Canticum Eucharisticum pro Pace, grand motet: Exsurge Gloria Mea

16. Canticum Eucharisticum pro Pace, grand motet: Dicat Nunc Israël

17. Canticum Eucharisticum pro Pace, grand motet: Dextera Comini Fecit Virtutem

18. Canticum Eucharisticum pro Pace, grand motet: Quomodo Facti Sunt In Desolationem

19. Canticum Eucharisticum pro Pace, grand motet: Audivit Dominus Et Misertus Est.

20. Canticum Eucharisticum pro Pace, grand motet: Revertatur Unusquisque In Domum Suam

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting, November 25, 2000

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This review is from: Brossard - Grand Motets / Collot · Padaut · Fouchécourt · Ragon · Lallouette · Corréas · Accentus · EB Limoges · Coin (Audio CD)

Sebastien de Brossard is mostly known as a music theorist. However, he was also a prolific composer (he composed about 60 motets, including "grands motets," i.e., motets for chorus and soloists, and "petits motets," i.e., motets for solo voices or combinations of solo voices). Brossard's writing was influenced by his scholarly background: he makes great use of the word-painting attributes of various instruments, changes in tonality, and the expressive effects inherent in the alternations between soli and tutti passages. His Grands Motets have a clean mathematical quality and a pan-European flavor, revealing his great fluency with musical features of three cultures - French, Italian and German. The present recording underscores the pan-European flavor of these motets by performing them in "high," as opposed to local, Latin. The soloists are excellent. They are: Delphine Collot & Catherine Padaut, soprano; Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, haute-contre; Gilles Ragon, tenor; Olivier Lallouette, baritone; and Jerome Correas, bass.

5.0 out of 5 stars This was re-issued in 2006..., March 26, 2009

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... and is available in that edition at a better price. Here's my review of the 2006 issue:

Born in Normandy and largely self-taught in musical theory, Sebastien de Brossard (1655-1730) spent most of his career directing cathedral choirs in Strasbourg, Meaux, and other Alsatian cities. Brossard's 'Grands Motets' are plainly in the tradition of Lully, but have less of French elegance and more of German seriousness about them, a quality perhaps suited to Alsatian taste. Brossard has been better known as a musical theorist and as the author of the first musical dictionary in the French language, but his compositions are quite well-crafted and concert-worthy. He ranks, I think, with Delalande, Dumont, Charpentier, and a notch or two below Lully himself and Rameau. Nearly every French Baroque composer worth his salt wrote a Grand Motet on the text of Psalm 125, "In convertendo Dominus captivitatem Sion," and it's quite interesting to compare the various expressions of rejoicing in the Lord's favor.

The third motet on this CD is of enormous historical interest. It's one of the grandest and longest of the Baroque Grands Motets, at 40 minutes. It was composed for the celebration of the 'inclusion' of Strasbourg into France. Details of its single public performance on Sept. 30, 1681, were included in a 114-page parchment-bound manuscript along with the score, thus making a kind of archival statement of the respect his Jesuit employers felt for the composer.

A Grand Motet can never be grander than its performance. Fortunately, this performance by Cristophe Coin and the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges is both grand and artful. The civic and departmental governments of Limoges and the Limousin played a large role in supporting this ensemble and subsidizing this performance. Money can't always buy musical skills, of course, but the lesser-known soloists and chorists on this CD are all musically first class. The best-known instrumentalist are Bruno Cocset, bass viol, and Claude Wassmer, bassoon, who anchor the bottom lines of the orchestra with proper authority. Brossard, by the way, had the good sense and taste to assign the bassoon the principal role in continuo, with occasional riffs that are mighty fun to play. Keep the name of this conductor and ensemble in mind; they do good work.