Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum Ensemble les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 1704): Te Deum, H. 146:
• 1 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: I. Prélude 01:19
• 2 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: II. Te Deum laudamus 01:05
• 3 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: III. Te æternum Patrem 03:36
• 4 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: IV. Te per orbem terrarum 03:31
• 5 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: V. Tu de victo mortis aculeo 01:19
• 6 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: VI. Te ergo quæsumus famulis tuis subveni 02:31
• 7 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: VII. Æterna fac cum sanctis tuis 02:12
• 8 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: VIII. Dignare Domine / Fiat misericordia tua 03:47
• 9 Charpentier: Te Deum, H. 146: IX. In te Domine speravi 02:18
• Henry Desmarest (1661 - 1741): Te Deum "de Lyon":
• 10 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": I. Prélude 00:47
• 11 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": II. Te Deum laudamus 03:57
• 12 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": III. Te gloriosus apostolorum chorus 01:38
• 13 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": IV. Te martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus 01:09
• 14 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": V. Te per orbem terrarum 00:49
• 15 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": VI. Patrem immensæ majestatis 01:33
• 16 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": VII. Tu rex gloriæ, Christe 01:49
• 17 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": VIII. Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem 01:56
• 18 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": IX. Tu de victo mortis aculeo 01:18
• 19 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": X. Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes 01:24
• 20 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XI. Te ergo quæsumus famulis tuis subveni 02:03
• 21 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XII. Æterna fac cum sanctis tuis 00:54
• 22 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XIII. Salvum fac populum tuum Domine 00:45
• 23 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XIV. Et rege eos 01:02
• 24 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XV. Per singulos dies benedicimus te 01:21
• 25 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XVI. Dignare Domine die isto 02:12
• 26 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XVII. Miserere nostri Domine 01:33
• 27 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XVIII. Fiat misericordia tua 01:27
• 28 Desmarest: Te Deum "de Lyon": XIX. In te Domine speravi 01:48
• Total Runtime 51:03

Info for Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum

Two Te Deums go head to head! The famous one by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and a completely new one by Henry Desmarets. Charpentier and Desmarets, remarkable composers of both sacred music and opera, shared a taste for Italian music and travel, but they also shared the disadvantage of having spent some time in Jean-Baptiste Lully's 'shadow'! Desmarets' life was somewhat tormented, between disgrace and exile; it was while he was superintendent of music at the Court of Lorraine that he composed two Te Deums , including the Te Deum "de Lyon". Written for the same ensemble as Charpentier's famous Te Deum , it uses trumpets and timpani for the grandiloquent sections. It is a true work of craftsmanship, notably in the variety of instrumentation, but also in its alternation of different vocal forces.

Jehanne Amzal, soprano Eugenie Lefebvre, soprano Clement Debieuvre, tenor Francois-Olivier Jean, tenor Francois Joron, bass Jean-Christophe Laniece, baritone David Witczak, baritone Ensemble Les Surprises Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas, direction

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
studied the organ, the harpsichord, chamber music and conducting at the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires (CNSMD). Among his teachers were Louis Robilliard, Jan Willem Jansen, Michel Bourcier, Nicolas Brochot, François Espinasse, Yves Rechsteiner, Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou. He has won prizes at several international organ competitions: the Grand Prix d’Orgue Jean-Louis Florentz of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, First Prize by unanimous decision of the judges at the Gottfried Silbermann Organ Competition in Freiberg (Germany), Second Prize at the Saint-Maurice Competition (Switzerland) and First Prize at the prestigious Xavier Darasse Competition in Toulouse. In 2013 he received the title of Young Echo Organist of the Year.

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas has given organ recitals in France – Paris (church of La Madeleine, Auditorium de Radio France), Toulouse (Festival Toulouse les Orgues) – and elsewhere in Europe, including Germany (Berlin Cathedral), the Netherlands (Alkmaar), Switzerland, Italy and Monaco (International Organ Festival). He has also worked with such conductors as Hervé Niquet, Arie Van Beek and Roberto Forés Veses. His research on the composers François Rebel and François Francœur was recognised by the award of the Déclics Jeunes scholarship of the Fondation de France.

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas is also director of Les Surprises, an ensemble specialising in the vocal and instrumental repertory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with which he has already appeared in several European countries, Canada and Palestine.

He is currently completing his residency at the Fondation Royaumont as organist of the Abbey’s Cavaillé-Coll instrument.

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