Search - Grand Ecurie Et Chambre Du Roy, Malgoire :: Vepres De L'Assumption Mexico-Versailles

Fabulous Discovery!

J. Burton | 03/08/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"2001 reissue of K617026, 1992.



Jean-Claude Malgoire the singers and period-instrument musicians of Grande Ecure et Chambre du Roy and Maitrise Nationale de Versailles in a recording of a hypothetical Vespers of the Assumption using primarily works by Marc-Antione Charpentier (c1643-1704) and Manuel de Sumaya (1678-1756).



"This CD presents an interesting mix of music that resulted from a large project undertaken in the early 1990s with French musicians working with their counterparts in South America to rediscover the lost repertoire of baroque music from Spanish America. The results, in the placing before audiences of composers such as Juan de Araujo and Manuel de Sumaya, bore ripe fruit. Indeed, Sumaya (an almost exact contemporary of J S Bach) is the great rediscovery; a seriously talented composer of church music who held the most of Maestro di Capilla at the cathedral in Mexico City at the zenith of its musical importance. The idea of the mixing of Spanish American with French music has no basis in historical fact other than that ambassadors from Mexico would present their credentials at Versailles accompanied by their musicians. Still, the idea is a pleasing one and the end result is surprisingly successful, not least because all of the works performed are of a certain quality." (Peter Wells, Musicweb.uk.net)



The works on this recording:



1. Intonation "Deus in Adjutorium" & Responsory "Domine in Adjuvandum"

Composed by Anonymous, Bogota 1701



2. Antiphon "Assumpta est Maria" & Psalm 109 "Dixit Dominus"

Composed by Juan de Araujo (1648-1712)



3. Kyrie I & III (separated by Psalm 112 Laudate pueri in fauxbourdon)

Composed by M-A Charpentier



4. Antiphon "In odorem uniguentorum", Psalm 121 "Laetatus sum" & Kyrie V

Composed by Manuel de Sumaya



5. Antiphon "Benedicta Filia" Psalm 126 "Nisi Dominus"

Composed by M-A Charpentier



6. Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem"

Composed by Manuel de Sumaya



7. Kyrie, Ave Maris Stella & Offertoire

Composed by M-A Charpentier



8. Antiphon "Hodie Maria virgo" & Magnificat

Composed by M-A Charpentier



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