DE LALANDE: Lecons de Tenebres - Ensemble Correspondances

Sophie Karthäuser - Soprano

Ensemble Correspondances

Sébastien Daucé - Conductor

When Lalande left this vale of tears, his fame was at its height; between 1725 and 1730, he was the composer most frequently programmed in Paris. Audiences flocked to hear his motets, notably the three Leçons de Ténèbres and the Miserere for solo voice, written for the offices of Holy Week. Many composers had already produced settings of these texts in the France of the Sun King, making the Office of Tenebrae a genuine social event. True to the same aesthetic, Lalande exploited this art of ambiguity while deviating from tradition.

O Mors
Miserere Mei Deus - Et Secundum Multitudinem Miserationem Tuarum
Amplius Lava Me - Tibi Soli Peccavi
Ecce Enim in Iniquitatibus - Ecce Enim Veritatem Dilexisti
Asperges Me Hyssopo - Averte Faciem Tuam
Cor Mundum - Ne Projicias Me
Redde Mihi Lætitiam - Docebo Iniquos Vias Tuas
Libera Me de Sanguinibus - Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium
Sacrificium Deo Spiritus Contribulatus - Benigne Fac Domine
Tunc Acceptabis
Tristis Est Anima Mea
Manum Suam Misit Hostis
Omnis Populus Ejus
Vide Domine
Lamed
O Vos Omnes
De Excelso
Vigilavit
Infirmata Est
Jerusalem
Ecce Vidimus Eum
Ego Vir Videns
Me Minavit
Tantum in Me Vertit
Vetustam Fecit
Aedificavit in Gyro Meo
In Tenebrosis
Circum Ædificavit
Sed, Et Cum Clamavero
Conclusit Vias Meas
Jerusalem
Vinea Mea Electa
Incipit Oratio
Recordare
Pupilli Facti Sumus
Cervicibus Nostris
Lassis Non Dabatur
Recordare
Ægypto Dedimus Manum
In Animabus Nostris
Pellis Nostra
Mulieres
Jerusalem
Plange Quasi Virgo