Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

Messe des morts à 4 voix, H. 7
Litanies à la Vierge, H. 89
Psalmus David 110us (Confitebor tibi), H. 220
Psalmus 126us (Nisi Dominus), H. 160
Elévation à 6 sans dessus de violon (Transfige dulcissime Jesu), H. 251
Psalmus 112us (Laudate pueri Dominum), H. 203

The present programme offers various aspects of the art of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, in the solemn music associated with ceremonies for the dead and in the more festive Vesper psalms, as well as in more intimate devotions of the Litanies de la Vierge and the motet for the Elevation of the Host.

Charpentier passed his career as a musician largely without involvernent with the court of Louis XIV. A musician rather of the town, he spent his time in various parts of the capital. Except for the Transfige, dulcissime Jesu, composed in 1683, the other works here included belong to the period he spent as mas