An educational programme featuring early music. Sacrifices: French oratorios from Charpentier’s and Carissimi’s baroque.
French oratorios from the mid-baroque, full of spirituality and drama and performed by La Nuova Musica conducted by David Bates.
1. Sébastien de Brossard (1655-1730)
– Symphonie pour le Graduel in D Major, SDB.229
2. Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Sacrificium Abrahae, H 402 (Abraham’s sacrifice):
– Cum centum esset annorum Abraham
– Abraham, Abraham
– Et pergentes pariter
– Et reversus Abraham ad pueros suos
3. Sébastien de Brossard
Sonata and trio in D Major SDB.221:
– I
– II Rondeau
– III Rigaudon
– IV
– V
4. Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
Historia di Jephte:
– Cum vocasset in proelium
– Incipite in tympanis
– Cantemus omnes Domino
– Cum vidisset Jephte
– Plorate colles
– Plorate, filii Israel
5. Sebastien de Brossard
– Symphonie pour le Graduel in g-klein, SDB.228 (added to the Missa San Antionii Padovani de Bartholomeo Baldrati)
La Nuova Musica conducted by David Bates. Filia: Sophie Junker, soprano. Jephte: Robert Murray, tenor. Sara: Mhairi Lawson, soprano. Abraham: Simon Wall, tenor. Nicholas Scott, tenor. Juvenis: Alice Gribbin, soprano.
Bojan Čičić and Sabine Stoffer, violin; Stefanie Heichelheim and Rachel Stott, viola;Tomasz Pokrzywinski, cello; David Miller, theorbo; Nathaniel Mander, harpsichord
(CD Sacrifices, Harmonia Mundi, HMU 807588, 2014)
