Charpentier: Histoires Sacrees (CD2+DVD)

CD1

1. Präludium - Est secretum, Valeriane (1. Teil)
2. Nullus audit, nullus videt - Et aquis lustratibus
3. Acceptis autem ab Angelo flosculis
4. O Christi fidem profitentium
5. Präludium (2. Teil)
6. Cum autem Valeriani et Tiburtii
7. Ecce, ecce mihi Jesu
8. Heu, heu, nos dolentes
9. Cur ploratis fideles
10. Guay - Nolite flere fideles
11. Präludium - Miseremini mei
12. Heu, mihi Domine
13. Ritornell - Ah, ah p nis crucior
14. Dialogus inter Magdalenam et Jesum H 423 (für Sopran, Alt und Orgel)
15. Stabat Holofernes super montes (1. Teil)
16. Filii Israel
17. Et placuerunt
18. Peccavimus, Domine
19. Et, cum his clamoribus
20. Quod cum audisset
21. Quod est hoc verbum
22. Vera sunt omnia
23. Nocte autem sequentem
24. Post hæc Judith deposuit
25. La nuict
26. Cum autem Judith descenderet montem (2. Teil)
27. Æquo animo esto
28. Et ingressa Judith
29. Ut autem sero factum est
30. Aperite portas, custodes fideles
31. Et cum audissent filii Israel
32. Laudate Dominum Deum nostrum

CD2

1. Rumor bellicus (1. Teil)
2. Cum essent congregata
3. O mulier, suscita mihi
4. Sinfonia 1 "Symphonie de l'enchantment" - Æther umbrosus - Per hanc virgam - Sinfonia 2 "Symphonie de l'enchantement"...
5. Cumque Samuel volente Deo
6. Surge Saül et responde mihi!
7. Cecidit repente Saül (2. Teil)
8. Tolle, quæso, tolle
9. Age cito
10. Cumque miles invitus
11. Quisnam es tu?
12. O sors!
13. Sed tu, unde scis quod Saül
14. Doleo super te
15. David autem conversus
16. Montes Gelboe
17. Präludium
18. Mementote peccatores
19. Vos autem
20. Quis capiti meo dabit aquam
21. Heu, stupiditas cordis mei
22. Ah, cor durum, ah cor ingratum
23. Präludium - Homo Deus fecit c nam magnam
24. O panis Deus
25. Sinfonia
26. Famem meam quis replebit
27. Panem c lestem habeo
28. Esurio, sitio
29. O panis angelorum
30. Präludium - Horrenda pestis Mediolanum vastabat
31. Afflictionem miseri populi ut audivit
32. Cantilena - Infirmos languentes solatur
33. Hymnum ergo cantemus

DVD

1. O sacramentum pietatis H 274
2. Stabat Holofernes
3. Quod est hoc verbum
4. Cum autem Judith
5. Ut autem sero factum est
6. In odorem unguentorum H 51
7. Magdalena lugens H 343
8. Est secretum, Valeriane
9. Cum autem Valeriani
10. Sub tuum praesidium H 28

Marc-Antoine Charpentier is the only composer of the age of Louis XIV to have distinguished himself so remarkably in the genre of the ‘sacred history’: he wrote more than thirty such works, all composed after his residence in Italy. Sébastien Daucé and the Ensemble Correspondances have carefully extracted from this outstanding corpus a number of gems that reflect both his experience in Rome (probably studying with Carissimi, the master of the oratorio) and the humanist concerns of an entire period. Like a miniature opera, each piece relates an exemplary destiny, including several strong-willed women (Judith, Cecilia, Mary Magdalene) and a deep friendship put to the test (Mors Saülis and Jonathæ).