Light and Shadow

Titelouze, Lambert, Nivers, Charpentier

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Amongst the flickering candles, female voices echo through the vaults. Listen! They fly through the night, vibrant and luminous, and they carry us with them beyond the plains of death.

 

Claire Lefilliâtre, soprano
Lucy Page, Jeanne Lefort, dessus - Axelle Verner, second soprano
Stéphane Fuget, organ and direction

Programme

Jean Titelouze

(1563 – 1633)

Ad Coenam

First verse

 

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers

(1632 - 1714)

Antiphon

Psalm

Antiphon

 

Michel Lambert

(1610 - 1696)

Première Leçon du Jeudi Saint

 

Response

 

Prélude from the Troisième Livre d’orgue

 

Seconde Leçon du Jeudi Saint for solo voices

 

Response

 

Echo from the Troisième Livre d’orgue

 

Marc Antoine Charpentier

(1643 - 1707)

Troisième Leçon du Jeudi Saint for solo voice (H104)

with the Hebrew Letters for three voices

from the Troisième Leçon for three voices (H109)

Jerusalem for three voices like Jerusalem from the Troisième leçon for three voices (H108)

 

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers

(1632 – 1714)

Response

 

Michel Lambert

(1610 - 1696)

Miserere

 

Jean Titelouze

(1563 – 1633)

Pange Lingua

Third verse

 

The antiphons and responses are sung by three voices a capella