Nuit à Venise Ensemble Les Surprises and Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Selva morale e spirituale: No. 13, Dixit dominus, SV 264:
• 1 Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale: No. 13, Dixit dominus, SV 264 07:35
• Giovanni Legrenzi (1626 - 1690): La cetra, Book 3, Op. 10: Sonata a quattro No. 6:
• 2 Legrenzi: La cetra, Book 3, Op. 10: Sonata a quattro No. 6: I. Adagio 02:24
• Alessandro Grandi (1586 - 1630): O quam tu pulchra est:
• 3 Grandi: O quam tu pulchra est 03:23
• Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665): Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera, Op. 12:
• 4 Merula: Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera, Op. 12: No. 19, Ballo detto Eccardo 02:18
• Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (1613 - 1648): Messa e Salmi ariosi a tre voci concertati:
• 5 Rigatti: Messa e Salmi ariosi a tre voci concertati: No. 9, Magnificat 07:39
• Claudio Monteverdi: Longe mi Jesu:
• 6 Monteverdi: Longe mi Jesu 04:11
• Il quinto libro de madrigali:
• 7 Monteverdi: Il quinto libro de madrigali: No. 9, Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore, SV 102 (Instrumental Version) 02:59
• Pulchrae sunt genae tuae:
• 8 Monteverdi: Pulchrae sunt genae tuae 04:09
• Selva morale e spirituale:
• 9 Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale: No. 21, Laudate dominum omnes gentes, SV 272 (Arr. for Ensemble by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas) 03:45
• Giovanni Legrenzi: Ingemisco:
• 10 Legrenzi: Ingemisco 02:50
• Oro supplex:
• 11 Legrenzi: Oro supplex 02:36
• Antonio Lotti (1667 - 1740): Crucifixus a 8 voci:
• 12 Lotti: Crucifixus a 8 voci 02:39
• Salomone Rossi (1570 - 1630): Sinfonie et gagliarde, Libro 1:
• 13 Rossi: Sinfonie et gagliarde, Libro 1: Sinfonia grave à 5 02:05
• 14 Rossi: Sinfonie et gagliarde, Libro 1: Gagliarda detta la Massara 00:52
• 15 Rossi: Sinfonie et gagliarde, Libro 1: Gagliarda detta la Norsina 01:11
• Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676): Missa concertata:
• 16 Cavalli: Missa concertata: Agnus Dei 04:37
• Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589 - 1630): 18 Sonatas in 1, 2, 3 Parts:
• 17 Fontana: 18 Sonatas in 1, 2, 3 Parts: No. 16, Sonata in C major 04:40
• Giovanni Legrenzi: Compiete con le lettanie & antifone, Op. 7:
• 18 Legrenzi: Compiete con le lettanie & antifone, Op. 7: No. 6, Salve regina 05:00
• Sacri e festivi concenti, Op. 9:
• 19 Legrenzi: Sacri e festivi concenti, Op. 9: No. 16, De profundis 03:43
• Total Runtime 01:08:36

Info for Nuit à Venise

Venice was surely the capital of music and the arts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and one of the most coveted positions in the city was that of maestro di cappella at St Mark’s Basilica.

A few lucky chosen candidates succeeded one another in bringing to life the musical splendour of the basilica, all of them fabulous musicians and composers prolonging the legacy of the great Claudio Monteverdi.

For its third recording on Alpha, the ensemble Les Surprises has chosen to sail towards Venetian waters and mix with these geniuses of affect, word-setting and theatre, exploring music that ranges from grandiose double choruses to intimate duets or trios combining sacred and profane.

Jehanne Amzal, soprano
Eugenie Lefebvre, soprano
Julia Beaumier, mezzo-soprano
Paulin Bugden, alto
Clement Debieuvre, tenor
Sebastien Obrecht, tenor
Francois Joron, bass
Guillaume Olry, bass
Ensemble Les Surprises
Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas,conductor, organ

Ensemble Les Surprises
Founded in 2010 by Juliette Guignard and Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, the ensemble Les Surprises seeks to convey its passion for the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through varied and original programmes. In borrowing its name from the opéra-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Surprises de l’Amour, the group has placed its destiny under the lucky star of this composer, with the aim of exploring operatic music in all its shapes and forms! Les Surprises is an ensemble of varying size, which can metamorphose from a chamber group to one of orchestral dimensions. Its members were all trained at leading European conservatories. In 2014 Les Surprises won the ‘Révélation musicale’ (new discovery) prize awarded by the French critics’ circle for the performing arts. Since its foundation, it has appeared in numerous concert halls and festivals, including the Versailles Chapelle Royale, the Opéra de Massy, the Radio France and Ambronay festivals, the Sanssouci Festival (Potsdam, Germany), the Bozar season (Brussels), and in Monaco, Palestine and Italy.

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
(b. 1989) studied organ, harpsichord, chamber music and conducting at the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires (CNSMD) and won rst prizes at three international organ competitions: the Grand Prix Jean-Louis Florentz (2009), the Gottfried Silbermann Competition (Freiberg, Germany) in 2011 and the Xavier Darasse Competition (Toulouse, 2013). He works with such conductors as Hervé Niquet, Arie van Beek and Paul Agnew, and has appeared as a soloist in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. In 2014 he received the Déclics Jeunes scholarship of the Fondation de France. Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas is artist in residence at the Fondation Royaumont.

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