CVS051 - CD - Grands Motets Cantique des Cantiques

Robert - Grands Motets sur le Cantique des Cantiques

N°51

€20

Singularly sensual, deeply moving, the Song of Songs lifts the souls of the lovers into heavens where perfect and divine love reigns supreme - it is quite logical that this story was transcribed into Grands Motets, praising the virtues of total devotion for the glory of God... and the King!More details

GRANDS MOTETS SUR LE CANTIQUE DES CANTIQUES

Concerto Soave
Les Pages et les Chantres du CMBV

Olivier Schneebeli, conductor

Pierre ROBERT (1622-1699)

From 1663 to 1683, Pierre Robert and Henry Dumont were the official composers of the Royal Chapel of Louis XIV, in charge of the Sovereign's daily sacred music, which they were to bring to a first pin¬nacle, while Lully reigned over the exceptional ceremonies and (above all) the Opera. All three invented the Grand Motet à la française, whose sumptuousness soon reverberated throughout Europe. The works gathered here by Robert and Dumont are taken from the Song of Songs, a magnificent biblical evocation of the mystical Spouses, that is Christ and the Virgin. Since the Vow of Louis XIII, who dedicated France to Mary to thank her for the birth of Louis XIV, the Kingdom and its Sovereign were of great Marian piety. Olivier Schneebeli, with 30 years of musical direction of the Pages and Chantres of the Centre de Musique Baroque Versailles, brings the splendid eloquence of these Grands Motets to the Chapel of Louis XIV.

Recorded on January 31st and February 1st 2020 at the Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles

Booklet in French, English, German - Duration: 63'56

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