Charpentier: Te Deum; Missa Assumpta est Maria H11; Litanies H83 /Les Arts Florissants * Christie

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Artist), Veronique Gens (Artist), Gilles Ragon (Artist), William Christie (Artist), Les Arts Florissants (Artist), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (Artist), Marie-Ange Petit (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
• ASIN: B000000772
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #747,882 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Philidor Cadet: Marche de timbales

2. Te Deum: Prelude

3. Te Deum: Te Deum laudamus: te Dominium confitemur

4. Te Deum: Te aeternum Patrem

5. Te Deum: Te per orbem terrarum

6. Te Deum: Tu devicto mortis aculeo

7. Te Deum: Te ergo quaesumus

8. Te Deum: Aeterna fac cum sanctis tuis

9. Te Deum: Dignare Domine die isto

10. Te Deum: Fiat misericordia tua Domine

11. Te Deum: In te Domine speravi

12. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Simphonie

13. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Kyrie eleison

14. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Christe eleison

15. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Kyrie eleison

16. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Gloria in excelsis Deo

17. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Credo in unum Deum

18. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus

19. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, qui tollis

20. Missa 'Assumpta est Maria': Domine salvum fac Regem

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Editorial Reviews

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When the Te Deum and Mass were first recorded in the mid-1950s, they introduced many listeners to a French Baroque master of the highest level. Today these works, along with the beautiful Litanies, retain their power to charm and amaze. Charpentier's church music is one of the largest bodies of unknown masterworks in the literature of music. From the grandeur of trumpets and drums to the beautiful intimacy of the vocal recitatives, this is deeply satisfying music. The old recordings, overinflated and inauthentic, seemed to have more grandeur than the modern, state-of-the-art, stylistically aware versions. But Christie and his ensemble do truly beautiful work for Charpentier, with fine, transparent recording and complete texts in the booklet. --Leslie Gerber