LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL

Le Concert Spirituel was established in 1725 by Anne Danican Philidor (1681-1731) and was the first concert organization in France, specialising in the performance of French Grands Motets by composers as Gilles, Campra, Mondonville and Rameau. The concerts were given in the Salle des Cent Suisses in the Palace of the Tuileries in Paris. They came to an end in 1791 with the French Revolution. In 1988, Hervé Niquet, one of the leading specialists in France in Baroque music, decided to revive Le Concert Spirituel in order to explore again the repertoire of music originally composed for this purpose in the eighteenth century. Since then Le Concert Spirituel has given performances in the principal cities and festivals of Europe and has issued a number of recordings that have been acclaimed by the international press. This recording is the seventh collaboration between Naxos and Le Concert Spirituel.

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Art & Music: Vermeer - Music of His Time	8.558159
AVE MARIA - Les plus beaux Ave Maria et chants a la Vierge (The Most Beautiful Ave Marias and Songs to the Virgin)	8.570886-87
AVE MARIA: Madonna Mystica - BACH, J.S. / HANDEL, G.F. / SCHUBERT, F. / BRUCKNER, A. / BRAHMS, J. / LISZT, F.	8.551267
BENEVOLO: Missa Azzolina / Magnificat / Dixit Dominus	8.553636
BOISMORTIER: Ballets de Village	8.554295
BOISMORTIER: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (Don Quixote at the Duchess')	8.553647
BOISMORTIER: Serenades Francaises / Fragments Melodiques	8.554456
CHARPENTIER: Messe des Morts / Litanies a la Vierge	8.553173
CHARPENTIER: Motets / Litanies a la Vierge	8.554453
CHARPENTIER: Te Deum / Mass / Canticum Zachariae	8.553175
CHARPENTIER: Vespres a La Vierge	8.553174
CLERAMBAULT: Triomphe d'Iris	8.554455
DISCOVER CHORAL MUSIC	8.558198-99
Discover Music of the Baroque Era	8.558160-61
ENKELIN AANIN (Angel's Voices)	8.503147
GEOFFROY: Music for Choir and Organ	8.553637
LORENZANI: Motets	8.553648
LULLY: Grand Motets, Vol. 1	8.554397
LULLY: Grand Motets, Vol. 2	8.554398
LULLY: Grand Motets, Vol. 3	8.554399
MICHEL: Lecons de Tenebres	8.553295
REJOICE - A Vision of Christ Through Music	8.570980
UNGER-HAMILTON, C.: Discover Music of the Baroque Era (Unabridged)	NA495912
VOICE (Eternal)	8.572183