For more than forty years, Lalande was the French court’s favourite composer, cultivating the most elevated and touching aspects of the spirit of the Grand Siècle. Sébastien Daucé and the Ensemble Correspondances offer us some remarkable examples of his output here: with the imposing Miserere, ample and sombre, the Dies irae and the rarely heard Veni Creator, this ‘Latin Lully’ brought the art of the grand motet to its zenith.
MICHEL-RICHARD DE LALANDE [1657-1726] Dies iræ, S31 · Dies iræ (1'16) · Quantus tremor est futurus (1'08) · Tuba mirum spargens sonum (1'15) · Mors stupebit et natura (1'18) · Liber scriptus proferetur (3'28) · Recordare (2'00) · Quærens me (2'33) · Juste judex (3'33) · Inter oves locum præsta (2'09) · Oro supplex et acclinis (1'51) · Lacrymosa dies illa (2'52) · Pie Jesu Domine (3'48) · Quatuor, S162/5 (2'22) Miserere, S27 · Miserere mei Deus (3'57) · Amplius lava me (0'52) · Quoniam iniquitatem meam (1'17) · Tibi soli peccavi (2'16) · Ecce enim in iniquitatibus (1'59) · Incerta et occulta (1'12) · Asperges me hysopo (2'06) · Auditui meo dabis gaudium (1'45) · Averte faciem tuam (1'17) · Cor mundum (2'37) · Ne projicias me a facie tua (2'08) · Redde mihi (1'01) · Docebo iniquos vias tuas (1'25) · Libera me (1'46) · Domine (1'31) · Quoniam (0'45) · Sacrificium Deo (3'51) · Benigne fac Domine (2'53) Veni creator, S14 · Veni creator Spiritus (2'51) · Qui Paraclitus diceris (1'53) · Tu septiformis munere (3'21) · Hostem repellas longius (3'28) · Per te sciamus da Patrem (1'35) · Gloria Patri Domino (3'01)
