Gilles:Requiem [Import]

Jean Gilles (Performer), Howard Crook (Performer), Peter Kooy (Performer), Herve Lamy (Performer), Agnes Mellon (Performer), Veronique Gens (Performer), Tom Phillips (Conductor), Philippe Herreweghe (Orchestra), La Chapelle Royale (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Harmonia Mundi, U.S.A.
• ASIN: B00000077M
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #519,834 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Requiem (Messe des morts): Introit

2. Requiem (Messe des morts): Kyrie

3. Requiem (Messe des morts): Graduel

4. Requiem (Messe des morts): Offertoire

5. Requiem (Messe des morts): Sanctus. Benedictus

6. Requiem (Messe des morts): Agnus Dei

7. Requiem (Messe des morts): Post-Communion

8. Diligam Te, Domine, motet: Diligam te

9. Diligam Te, Domine, motet: Laudans invocabo

10. Diligam Te, Domine, motet: Dolores infernis

11. Diligam Te, Domine, motet: Commota est

12. Diligam Te, Domine, motet: Inclinavit coelos

13. Diligam Te, Domine, motet: Et ascendit super Cherubina

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gagne à être connu, October 3, 2005

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Ron Roy (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gilles:Requiem (Audio CD)

Ce requiem méconnu de Jean Gilles est très beau et très bien

interprété sous la direction de Philippe Herreweghe.

Somptueuse musique digne de M.A Charpentier. À découvrir.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Retrieving the music of the Sun King, February 18, 2001

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"danielinyaracuy" (San Felipe, Yaracuy Venezuela) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gilles:Requiem (Audio CD)

If Italian and German music of the XVII and XVIII centuries are alive and well today, only in the past couple of decades we have seen a revival of some of the major French composers like Rameau and Charpentier. Many French composers have only themselves to blame, writing rather for the court than for the "people", worrying more about immediate success at Versailles than spreading their works through France. Now, little by little brilliant music of other composers from these glory days of French culture is coming to a CD player near you. This issue is a gem. First a solemn requiem with an amazing balance of emotion, composure, and theater (the first movement march in particular, an amazing feat just by itself, and one of those "moments" of my musical life). Pure "French" style, and exercise in Classical restraint. And to compensate the solemnity of the Requiem, the director, an inspired Herreweghe, has chosen a "Grand Motet" from Gilles. French music was conceived as much for the music as for spectacle and a sense of theater also pervades this work. Yet is has a sprightly quality that allows you to hum it afterwards. We have to give a big thanks to La Chapelle Royale for bringing back to us Gilles, a provincial composer in France, who shows us that all did not revolve around Versailles. One wonders about what still lies under piles of dust in French libraries. And why did the French waited so long to bring back their musical heritage.