Messe à quatre choeurs : carnets de voyage d'Italie

"Recommended: Having heard an excerpt from this recording on BBC Radio 3, I dropped everything else to download the album from eclassical ... There are very few other recordings of the four-choir Mass which forms the main work here ... At the risk of being controversial, after listening to this new recording ... I'm left with the feeling that this four-choir Mass is one of the glories of the sacred choral repertoire ... It's the grandest of his own works and the only seventeenth-century French polychoral Mass to survive, which is all the more reason to cherish it.".

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"The subtitle of this disc is 'An Italian travel diary'. In the mid-1660s the young Charpentier spent about three years in Rome ... The details aren't known, but the assumption here is that he would have broken the long journey from Paris by stopping in some of those Italian cities that had a strong musical tradition ... However, any excuse will do for programming this splendid Magnificat by Cavalli ... what's really appealing is the detailed wordpainting, as presented by Ensemble Correspondances ... Sebastien Daucé nad his ensemble put all this together skilfully and beautifully, and the recorded sound is excellent. I enjoyed accompanying Charpentier on his journey and so, I'm sure, will you".

"Vurdering: Diapason d'or".