Du Mont: O Mysterium - Motets & Élévations pour la Chapelle de Louis XIV - Ensemble Correspondances

Ensemble Correspondances

Sébastien Daucé

For twenty years (from 1663 to 1683) Henry Du Mont directed the music of the Sun King’s chapel. For the daily Mass heard there he built up a new musical repertory consisting of motets for full chorus and more intimate pieces for solo voices. The former aimed to transpose to the context of the ‘ordinary’ the format of the large-scale works conceived for extraordinary ceremonies. Sébastien Daucé presents an innovative approach to these ‘grands motets’ that at once links specific musical features with historical data and reveals all their beauties in every detail.

1Memorare 7'36
2Jesu dulcedo cordium 3'41
3Desidero te millies 3'07
4O æterne misericors Deus 8'50
5Sub umbra noctis profundæ 4'21
6O mysterium 7'19
7Allemanda Gravis 3'10
8Ave Regina cælorum 3'29
9O dulcissima 10'55
10Quam pulchra es 4'57
11O præcelsum 3'27
12Super flumina Babylonis 10'18