A passionate admirer of Charpentier’s music, to which he has devoted around ten recordings with Le Concert Spirituel over nearly forty years, Hervé Niquet has decided to bring his sacred works back to life. And what luxury! By recreating today a concert that only Louis XIV could afford to produce at the time, Le Concert Spirituel and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles revive the splendour of Versailles by summoning Charpentier’s Roman and Italian musical influences. With an octet of soloists, a double orchestra and a double choir, this trilogy brings together sixty-three performers in unison.

And the conductor warns us: “You have to be a bit mad to do this, to reproduce this exceptional acoustic experience that makes Heaven and Earth communicate. I have been working on Charpentier for a long time and I now understand him very quickly; I decipher his mathematics: when one pays attention to his rhythm and meter, the music emerges on its own.”

Co-production: Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Le Concert Spirituel
Scores published by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

Vêpres à la Vierge

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

Salve Regina H.24

Litanies à la Vierge H.87

Ouverture pour le sacre d’un évêque H.536

Dixit Dominus H.190

Lauda Jerusalem H.191

Laudate Dominum H.223

Beatus Vir H.224

Magnificat H.74

Beatus Vir H.224

Magnificat H.74

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PRESTIGE CATEGORY : Excellent seats, you will receive a complimentary programme and a glass of champagne.

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