Couperin: Leçons de ténèbres

On this CD:

1. Motet de Saint-Barthélemy, for 2 treble voices & continuo (Elévations)
Composed by Francois Couperin
with Robert King , James Bowman , Mark Caudle , Michael Chance

2. Venite exultemus Domino, motet for 2 voices & continuo (Elévations)
Composed by Francois Couperin
with Robert King , James Bowman , Mark Caudle , Michael Chance

3. Leçon de Ténèbres 1, for treble voice & continuo (Leçons de Ténèbres)
Composed by Francois Couperin
with Robert King , James Bowman , Mark Caudle , Michael Chance

4. Leçon de Ténèbres 2, for treble voice & continuo (Leçons de Ténèbres)
Composed by Francois Couperin
with Robert King , James Bowman , Mark Caudle , Michael Chance

5. Leçon de Ténèbres 3, for 2 treble voices & continuo (Leçons de Ténèbres)
Composed by Francois Couperin
with Robert King , James Bowman , Mark Caudle , Michael Chance

6. Magnificat, motet for 2 treble voices & continuo
Composed by Francois Couperin
with Robert King , James Bowman , Mark Caudle , Michael Chance

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Couperin - Leçons de Ténèbres / Daneman, Petibon, Les Arts Florissants, Christie
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Fabulous
  • Couperin, Lecon de tenebres
  • Gorgeous, rare recording of the Tenebrae by Couperin
  • An exquisite shining pearl - perfect, simply perfect.
Couperin - Leçons de Ténèbres / Daneman, Petibon, Les Arts Florissants, Christie
François Couperin , William Christie , Sophie Daneman , Patricia Petibon , Monica Huggett , Marc Hantaï , Anne-Marie Lasla , Emilia Benjamin , and Les Arts Florissants
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ASIN: B000005E4Y
Release Date: 2006-03-06

Tracks:

  1. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint: Incipit Lamentio - Sophie Daneman
  2. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint: Aleph - Sophie Daneman
  3. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint: Beth - Sophie Daneman
  4. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint: Ghimel - Sophie Daneman
  5. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint: Daleth - Sophie Daneman
  6. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint: He - Sophie Daneman
  7. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint: Jerusalem - Sophie Daneman
  8. Deuxieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Une Voix: Vav - Patricia Petibon
  9. Deuxieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Une Voix: Zain - Patricia Petibon
  10. Deuxieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Une Voix: Heth - Patricia Petibon
  11. Deuxieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Une Voix: Teth - Patricia Petibon
  12. Deuxieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Une Voix: Jerusalem - Patricia Petibon
  13. Trosieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Deux Voix: Yod - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman
  14. Trosieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Deux Voix: Caph - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman
  15. Trosieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Deux Voix: Lamed - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman
  16. Trosieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Deux Voix: Mem - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman
  17. Trosieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Deux Voix:Nun - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman
  18. Trosieme Lecon De Tenebres Pour Le Mercredi Saint A Deux Voix: Jerusalem - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman
  19. Quarte Versets Du Motet: Tabescere me facit - Sophie Daneman/Patricia Petibon
  20. Quarte Versets Du Motet: Ignitum eloquium - Sophie Daneman
  21. Quarte Versets Du Motet: Adolescentulus sum ego - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman
  22. Quarte Versets Du Motet: Justitia tua - Patricia Petibon/Sophie Daneman

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It figures that the ensemble most responsible for the French Baroque revival is the one to outdo Nelson and Kirkby's legendary recording of these lamentation settings. Sophie Daneman and Patricia Petibon don't have the earlier pair's gorgeous, distinctive voices (both occasionally wobble above the staff), but they sound plenty beautiful. More importantly, they've managed to make these major-key pieces sound like lamentations. Twenty years ago, Kirkby and Nelson were pioneers: merely singing with their white tone was risky; they couldn't take many chances with rhythmic freedom. Daneman and Petibon have had time to internalize Couperin's style: they can push ahead here, hold back there, extend an unaccompanied phrase and let it drop off suddenly--following rhetoric more than rhythm, they take your breath away. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fabulous.......2007-05-14

This album is a must for anyone who likes Bach, Desmarest, Lully, Lassus, etc. I heard one of the pieces from this album on WQXR (NY Times Radio) and fell in love with the sopranos. The balance between the voices is fantastic. Whenever I have the CD playing, my friends always ask me who it is and where they can buy it. I feel that Couperin is often overshadowed in the classical radio industry by Bach and Mozart, but this disk is so easy to listen to! Even to an untrained ear, the pieces are beautiful and seem to float from the voices of angels. You will not be disappointed!

5 out of 5 stars Couperin, Lecon de tenebres.......2007-05-14

The CD arrived quickly and it was in impeccable condition. Thanks so much for the prompt delivery and for telling the truth in your ad.

5 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, rare recording of the Tenebrae by Couperin.......2006-11-25

The service of Tenebrae (time of darkness--traditionally celebrated at 3 am) is a Holy Week liturgy taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The other reason for the title "Darkness" is that it is accompanied by the solemn ceremony of stripping the altar before the total eclipse of Good Friday. Lighting is gradually reduced throughout the service, initially being fully lit, frequently by candles which are gradually extinguished as the service progresses, thus the name Tenebrae meaning Darkness is virtually performed as well.



Couperin's settings (composed in 1703) uses a few voices and few instrumentals in the French tradition of the service. This recording features sopranos Patricia Petibon and Sophie Daneman. The performance follows the French tradition also in the pronunciation of the Latin. The conductor took great care to reproduce the performance as the French would have heard it, and if you want the genuine experience, this recording surely comes the closest (as far as we can tell, from historical records.)



5 out of 5 stars An exquisite shining pearl - perfect, simply perfect........2004-04-30

I possess every recording of these leçons that is currently available. As a soprano with a deep love for the baroque repertoire, I have performed these with fellow singer Katrena Mitchell in our duet ensemble "Sounds Sublime". The pieces themselves are as familiar to me as a byte is to a computer expert...

... and there is simply no recording to compete with this one.

It's exquisite from the very opening. In particular when Sophie Daneman and Patricia Petibon sing together, the work between the two and the ravishing vocal blend is something of which dreams are made. The pronunciation of the Latin is beautifully French, as it would have been performed at the time. The ornamentation and musicianship here is superb, as one would expect from a recording conducted by William Christie.

But the two singers are the highlight here, in this most ravishing of performances.

I have an enormous admiration for Emma Kirkby, but the recording of this work with her and Judith Nelson is stiff, unemotional, and blank in comparison with this recording. (I do not admire Nelson's voice, either, however much I admire Kirkby's.) The vocal beauty on this recording is truly sublime - this CD is one I listen to over and over again, always with a sigh and a smile.

Other versions, including a surprisingly bland rendition by Gens and Sandrine Piau, and two good countertenor versions and one not-so-good (oh dear, Deller...) are available, but nothing approaches the shimmering beauty of this version.

The pieces themselves are of heavenly beauty. I've never performed them without seeing audience members weeping with the beauty of the music.

I recommend this CD strongly.
Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
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    Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres

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    Couperin: Trois Lecons/Motet
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      Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
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        Release Date: 2001-07-10
        Couperin: Leçons de tenébres pour le Mercredi Saint (Tenebre for Holy Wednesday); Motet pour le Jour de Paques (Motet for Easter Sunday); Magnificat
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          Couperin: Leçons de tenébres pour le Mercredi Saint (Tenebre for Holy Wednesday); Motet pour le Jour de Paques (Motet for Easter Sunday); Magnificat

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          ASIN: B000005E5P
          Release Date: 1992-05-01
          François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
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            François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres

            Manufacturer: K617 Records France
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            ASIN: B00008OE1K
            Release Date: 2003-07-08
            Couperin - Trois leçons de ténèbres / van der Sluis · Laurens · Monteilhet · Muller · Boulay
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              Couperin - Trois leçons de ténèbres / van der Sluis · Laurens · Monteilhet · Muller · Boulay
              François Couperin , Laurence Boulay , Mieke van der Sluis , Guillemette Laurence , and Marianne Muller Pascal Monteilhet
              Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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              ASIN: B00000IWRW
              Release Date: 1999-05-18

              Tracks:

              1. Troisieme Lecon De Tenebres
              2. Premiere Lecon De Tenebres
              3. Motet Pour Le Jour De Paques
              4. Deuxieme Lecon De Tenebres
              5. Magnificat
              Couperin - Leçons de ténèbres / Gens, Piau, Les talens lyriques, Rousset
              Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
              • Sublime music given a solid performance that falls short of heaven
              • profoundly affecting
              Couperin - Leçons de ténèbres / Gens, Piau, Les talens lyriques, Rousset
              François Couperin , Véronique Gens , Sandrine Piau , Emmanuel Balssa , Christophe Rousset , and Les talens lyriques
              Manufacturer: Decca
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              ASIN: B00004R9CL
              Release Date: 2000-03-14

              Tracks:

              1. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
              2. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Aleph
              3. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Beth
              4. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Gimel
              5. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Daleth
              6. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Heth
              7. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum
              8. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Vau
              9. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Zain
              10. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Heth
              11. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Teth
              12. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum
              13. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Jod
              14. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Caph
              15. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Lamed
              16. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Mem
              17. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Nun
              18. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum
              19. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Laetentur coeli (Motet pour le jour de Pacques
              20. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Magnificat
              21. Trois Lecons de tenebres pour le Mercedi saint: Victoria! Christo resurgenti (Motet pour le jour de Paques)

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Sublime music given a solid performance that falls short of heaven.......2005-11-28

              Veronique Gens and Sandrine Piau are two lovely singers. I own recordings of both of them which are lovely - Piau's Mozart arias is exquisite (better by several degrees than her more recent Handel arias recording, but that too has some fine things), and Gens' extensive recording repertoire from her Mozart to her Berlioz is regularly taken out of my CD shelves to be given another listen.

              It was with the expectation of delight that I purchased this recording. To my astonishment, the performance failed to "shimmer", right from the start. It seemed pedestrian, walking where it should float. The blend of the two voices was... well, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't wonderful.

              The fault is absolutely not that of the music. Couperin's lamentations are utterly, utterly beautiful. This SHOULD have been a truly gorgeous recording. Don't mistake me - it's not dreadful. The two sopranos, as I've said, are lovely on other recordings. I feel that perhaps they did not share the same vision of the works on this recording, so that they sometimes seem to be pulling away from each other rather than together. In the duet work, this is fatal...

              Yet even in the solo portions of the works recorded here, I was not transported with delight. I think it may be at least partly due to the recording itself rather than the singers, but I do have a few quibbles with regard to the singing. Firstly - the Latin is not French Latin, as I've always considered it should be. Secondly, the ornamentation is inconsistent, and doesn't always follow the markings in the score. Thirdly, the tones of both sopranos seemed not to fall into the right sound for the Couperin works. I am at a loss to understand why - really, these two sopranos are so experienced in French baroque works that I fully expected them to have created a delicious performance.

              I hovered between 3 and 4 stars for this. I suppose I am very much a person of "Yes, I love this" or "No, I loathe it" - my opinions are rarely tepid. Here, I am confused - because it SHOULD have been wonderful.

              There are now quite a number of version of the Couperin "Leçons" available - there's the Kirkby/Nelson (white and bland), the Deller (avoid), the Jacobs/Chance (actually that's not bad! - but I truly think this work finds its apex of beauty sung by sopranos rather than countertenors), the Daniel Taylor/Robin Blaze (quite nice, but here even more than the Jacobs version, I felt the lack of soaring that one gets with two sopranos), and the version of all versions - sung by Patricia Petibon and Sophie Daneman. That version above all is beatiful beyond belief. If you only intend to have one recording of the Couperin "Leçons", I strongly recommend the Petibon/Daneman one, conducted by William Christie.

              In fact, to truly understand why I so strongly recommend the alternative version, why not get both this and the Petibon/Daneman one? Listen to them one after the other - the comparison is astonishing.

              5 out of 5 stars profoundly affecting.......2000-10-30

              Among the few sacred works published during his lifetime, the settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for matins services of Holy Week are among Francois Couperin's most affecting. The austere beauty of these works, which consist of one or two soprano voices with continuo, is beautifully realized in this recording which is the best of currently available offerings. Sopranos Sandrine Piau and Veronique Gens contribute the right balance of sensuality,reverence, and vocal allure, while Christophe Rousset, organ, and Emmanuel Balssa, bass viol, provide admirable support, matching the singers in their attention to inflections of the text as well as to the contours of the music. A beautiful recording, highly recommended.
              De Lalande: Leçons de Ténèbres
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                Release Date: 1996-01-01
                Tallis: The Lamentations Of Jeremiah The Prophet/Couperin: Lecons Des Ténèbres
                Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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                Tallis: The Lamentations Of Jeremiah The Prophet/Couperin: Lecons Des Ténèbres

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                ASIN: B0000023C4
                Release Date: 1995-03-21

                Tracks:

                1. Part I: Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae - Alfred Deller/Gerald English/Wilfred Brown/Maurice Bevan/John Frost
                2. Part I Aleph, Quomodo sedet - Alfred Deller/Gerald English/Wilfred Brown/Maurice Bevan/John Frost
                3. Part I: Betn, Plorans ploravit - Alfred Deller/Gerald English/Wilfred Brown/Maurice Bevan/John Frost
                4. Part II: De Lamentatione Jeremaie - Alfred Deller/Gerald English/Wilfred Brown/Maurice Bevan/John Frost
                5. Part II: Chemel, Migravit Judas - Alfred Deller/Gerald English/Wilfred Brown/Maurice Bevan/John Frost
                6. Part II: aleth, Omnes persecutores - Alfred Deller/Gerald English/Wilfred Brown/Maurice Bevan/John Frost
                7. Part II: He, Facti sunt - Alfred Deller/Gerald English/Wilfred Brown/Maurice Bevan/John Frost
                8. First Lesson:Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae
                9. First Lesson: aleph,m Quomodo sedet
                10. First Lesson: Beth, Plorans ploravit
                11. First Lesson: Ghemel, Migravit Judas
                12. First Lesson: Daleth, Viae Sion lugent
                13. First Lesson: He, Facti sunt
                14. First Lesson: Jerusalem, Jerusalem
                15. Second Lesson: Vau, Eet egressus est
                16. Second Lesson: Zain, Recordata est
                17. Second Lesson: Heth Peccatum peccavit
                18. Second Lesson: Teth, Sordes ejust
                19. Second Lesson: Jerusalem, Jerusalem
                20. Third Lesson: Jod, Manum suam
                21. Third Lesson: Caph, Omnis populus
                22. Third Lesson: Lamed, O vos omnes
                23. Third Lesson: Mem, De excelso misit
                24. Third Lesson: Nun, Vigilavit jugum
                25. Third Lesson: Jerusalem, Jerusalem

                Customer Reviews:

                2 out of 5 stars Not too hot.......2001-10-15

                Ok, maybe we're spoilt a bit by the great early music ensembles around today, but I have to say thatthis recording is very disappointing and doesn't come close to ones by such groups as Pro Cantione Antiqua. It features Alfred Deller at his most idiosyncratic, which is fine in his best repertoire (lutesongs, etc.), but which can be quite excruciating in ths recording. It may not be helped by the way thay were all miked, as there is a lot of Deller and a bit of a mush made of everyone else. One plus to come out of it, though, is the voice of his on, Mark, singing alto and tenor at different times (made possible by transposition from the usual keys). It sounds like a lighter version of Alfred at his most lyrical and smooth. One wonders why he didn't make more of a name for himself as a countertenor.

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                10. Fur Elise & Other Piano Favorites

                Music Review

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                Music Review

                Sound of Lailola [Import]

                Unforgettable Classics: Gershwin

                Venice-Music and Painting from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

                After Dark

                Warm Wet Circles

                The Best of La Fiebre & Xelencia

                Walk Around Heaven

                Very Mary Beth

                Uncle Dave At Home

                Tiempo Pa Matar [Import]

                This Sad Movie

                Virtues&Vices

                U 30 Partykracher [Import]

                Blues and the Original Nitty Gritty

                Hot Piano! Ragtime Blues Jazz Classical Mark Birnbaum