Emmanuelle Haïm / Le Concert d’Astrée

19.11.2019 20:00,

Grand Auditorium

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Le Concert d’Astrée
Emmanuelle Haïm direction
Denis Comtet direction de chœur
Marie Perbost dessus
Samuel Boden haute-contre
Zachary Wilder taille
Victor Sicard basse-taille

Jean-Philippe Rameau: In convertendo Dominus
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: In exitu Israell
André Campra: Messe de Requiem

The three works selected by Emmanuelle Haïm for her concert with the chorus and orchestra of Le Concert d’Astrée are exemplary for the utmost splendour characterising church music in baroque France. The two motets for double chorus by Rameau and Mondonville give radiance and poignancy to the words of the psalms from the Old Testament; the Requiem composed in 1695 by André Campra for the funeral service for the Parisian archbishop François Harlay de Champvallon surprises the listener with an almost theatrical inflection.