Lalande: Majesté (Collection Château de Versailles) Ensemble Aedes, Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre

• Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657 . 1726): Deitatis Majestatem:
• 1 Deitatis Majestatem: Deitatis Majestatem 04:40
• 2 Deitatis Majestatem: Hic enim misericors 04:31
• 3 Deitatis Majestatem: Simphonie 00:45
• 4 Deitatis Majestatem: O caro Christi vera 02:23
• 5 Deitatis Majestatem: Te omnes angeli 03:14
• 6 Deitatis Majestatem: O mentis jubilatio 04:17
• 7 Deitatis Majestatem: Quam dulcis est 03:03
• 8 Deitatis Majestatem: O bonitatis prodigium 03:53
• Ecce Nunc Benedicite, S.8:
• 9 Ecce Nunc Benedicite, S.8: Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum 04:59
• 10 Ecce Nunc Benedicite, S.8: In noctibus extollite 05:35
• 11 Ecce Nunc Benedicite, S.8: Benedicat te Dominus ex Sion 03:07
• Te Deum, S.32:
• 12 Te Deum, S.32: Te Deum laudamus 02:12
• 13 Te Deum, S.32: Te æternum Patrem 01:08
• 14 Te Deum, S.32: Tibi omnes angeli 01:47
• 15 Te Deum, S.32: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus 01:34
• 16 Te Deum, S.32: Te gloriosus Apostolorum 02:31
• 17 Te Deum, S.32: Te per orbem terrarum 01:23
• 18 Te Deum, S.32: Tu rex gloriæ 02:19
• 19 Te Deum, S.32: Tu, ad liberandum 02:20
• 20 Te Deum, S.32: Tu, devicto mortis aculeo 02:47
• 21 Te Deum, S.32: Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes 01:27
• 22 Te Deum, S.32: Te ergo quæsumus 01:41
• 23 Te Deum, S.32: Æterna fac cum sanctis 01:50
• 24 Te Deum, S.32: Salvum fac populum tuum 01:17
• 25 Te Deum, S.32: Et rege eos 01:44
• 26 Te Deum, S.32: Per singulos dies benedicimus te 02:16
• 27 Te Deum, S.32: Dignare, Domine 01:16
• 28 Te Deum, S.32: Miserere nostri 01:35
• 29 Te Deum, S.32: In te, Domine, speravi 02:58
• Total Runtime 01:14:32

Info for Lalande: Majesté (Collection Château de Versailles)

In 1683, Michel-Richard de Lalande entered the Chapelle Royale as a sous-maître after receiving the support of Louis XIV in a formidable recruitment competition. Still only twenty-five years old, the young composer was swiftly to become established as the King’s favourite and accede to the most coveted posts at court in a career spanning almost forty years. Above all, Louis included him in the consultations for the construction of the new Chapelle Royale, adjacent to Versailles Palace. As the arches gradually rose skywards, Lalande composed and revised his motets, which give expression to the then-peerless grandeur of the realm, while at the same time testifying to the chapel’s incomparable acoustics. His works – settings of psalms, hymns, the Te Deum – record the atmosphere at court in the liturgy, in times of both trouble and rejoicing. Following their earlier recording of Te Deum settings by Lully and Charpentier at the Chapelle Royale, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique have now returned to Versailles to tackle the music Lalande composed for that extraordinary place. Alongside the grands motets Deitatis majestatem and Ecce nunc benedicite, with their synthesis of royal pomp and the language of opera, they offer the deeply moving Miserere and the most grandiose Te Deum performed in the reign of Louis XIV, the Te Deum of the King himself.

Ensemble Aedes
Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, direction

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