Messe des morts
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Mass for the Dead
JEAN GILLES (1668 – 1705)
MOTET « DOMINE DEUS MEUS »
Eugénie Lefebvre · Clément Debieuvre · Sebastian Monti · David Witczak
Les Folies françoises
Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Fabien Armengaud, conductor
Jean Gilles (Tarascon, 1688), Chapel Master of Toulouse Cathedral from 1697, was a genius struck down at the age of just 37, in 1705. The entire kingdom admired his famed Mass for the Dead, which was played at his own funeral “he sealed his score with his last will and testament, in which he asked that the Chapter have this mass sung to lay his soul to rest”, then performed throughout the century, both in concert and for the funerals of Campra (1744), Rameau (1764) and Louis XV (1774). Fabien Armengaud and his ensemble from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles perform this masterpiece with the addition of a new motet, Domine Deus Meus, replete with dramatic effects including an awe-inspiring tempest. Gilles’ composition, with its extraordinary expansiveness and mastery of counterpoint, epitomises the nobility that makes French Grand Siècle religious music so incomparable, glorified by this Requiem Æternam…
Recorded from December 8th and 9th 2022 at the Royal Chapel of Château de Versailles.
You may find the booklet, available in French and English, by clicking here
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- Genre Concert
- Period 18th century
- Music Sacred music
- Collection Château de Versailles Spectacles
- pieces Mass for the Dead
- Composer Jean Gilles
- Musical Ensemble Les Folies françoises
- Conductor Fabien Armengaud
- Soloists Eugénie Lefebvre · Clément Debieuvre · Sebastian Monti · David Witczak
- Duration 63'49
Available on all streaming platforms here!
Mass for the Dead
JEAN GILLES (1668 – 1705)
MOTET « DOMINE DEUS MEUS »
Eugénie Lefebvre · Clément Debieuvre · Sebastian Monti · David Witczak
Les Folies françoises
Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Fabien Armengaud, conductor
Jean Gilles (Tarascon, 1688), Chapel Master of Toulouse Cathedral from 1697, was a genius struck down at the age of just 37, in 1705. The entire kingdom admired his famed Mass for the Dead, which was played at his own funeral “he sealed his score with his last will and testament, in which he asked that the Chapter have this mass sung to lay his soul to rest”, then performed throughout the century, both in concert and for the funerals of Campra (1744), Rameau (1764) and Louis XV (1774). Fabien Armengaud and his ensemble from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles perform this masterpiece with the addition of a new motet, Domine Deus Meus, replete with dramatic effects including an awe-inspiring tempest. Gilles’ composition, with its extraordinary expansiveness and mastery of counterpoint, epitomises the nobility that makes French Grand Siècle religious music so incomparable, glorified by this Requiem Æternam…
Recorded from December 8th and 9th 2022 at the Royal Chapel of Château de Versailles.
You may find the booklet, available in French and English, by clicking here
You may find this recording on our online shop by clicking here
- Genre Concert
- Period 18th century
- Music Sacred music
- Collection Château de Versailles Spectacles
- pieces Mass for the Dead
- Composer Jean Gilles
- Musical Ensemble Les Folies françoises
- Conductor Fabien Armengaud
- Soloists Eugénie Lefebvre · Clément Debieuvre · Sebastian Monti · David Witczak
- Duration 63'49
