Couperin - Messe propre pour les Couvents

N°82

€20

At the Grandes Orgues de Versailles, Olivier Latry delivers an exceptional performance of Couperin's Messe des Couvents, accompanied by soloists "singing from the book", a practice forgotten since the end of the 18th century! More details

FRANÇOIS COUPERIN (1668-1733)
MESSE PROPRE POUR LES COUVENTS
Chant sur le Livre alterné

Olivier Latry, grandes orgues
Marthe Davost · Jeanne Lefort · Clémence Carry · Marc Mauillon · Cyril Escoffier · Jean-Marc Vié
Jean-Yves Haymoz, direction artistique

When François Couperin published his Mass for the Convents in 1690, he had just turned 20, yet he had created the most exceptional collection of organ music to be written during the reign of Louis XIV. On the magnificent and historic Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, over which Couperin presided from 1693 to 1730, the celebrated organist of Notre-Dame de Paris, Olivier Latry, performs a sumptuous version of this Organ Mass which, in a world premiere, is interlaced with captivating Chants sur le Livre, those sublime holy improvisations unique to French baroque music... for a moment of eternity.

Recorded at the Royal Chapel of Versailles fromJanuary 5th to 9th 2021 and from 4th to 6th April 2022.

Booklet French/English/German - Duration: 54'51

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