Pierre Robert - Grands Motets (2009)

De profundis
01 	De Profundis Clamavi 	16:01 		
02 	Requiem aeternam 	05:46 	
Quare fremuerunt gentes
03 	Quare fremuerunt gentes 	
04 	Reges eos in virga ferrea 	06:07 	
Te decet hymnus	
05 	Te decet hymnus Deus 	10:40 		
06 	Praeparans montes 	05:50 	
07 	Rivos ejus inebria 	06:49 	

08 	Nisi Dominus 	09:11

Les Pages et Les Chantres de Versailles (Choir)
Musica Florea (Ensemble)
Olivier Schneebeli - conductor

Chosen by Louis XIV in 1663 to conduct the music of his Chapel, Pierre Robert spent the next twenty years, in alternation with Henry Du Mont, composing the works that accompanied the daily services of the court of France. The creator with Du Mont and Lully, of the grands motets the emblematic genre of a 'French style' admired by all Europe, Robert was one of the last heirs to the great French polyphonic tradition which he brought to a high degree of contrapuntal complexity and rhetorical refinement, as can be seen in his 'Motets pour la chapelle du Roy' published in 1684. ---arkivmusic.com

The performances themselves are stylish, accomplished and heartfelt, enough to make an auspicious introduction to an unjustly neglected composer. ---Gramophone, march 2010

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