Charpentier: Quatre Antiennes à la Vierge pour deux dessus

Description

In the extensive output of French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, best-known for his Te Deum (Carus 21.032), the Marian antiphons occupy a special place among his smaller church music works. He devoted himself to these over a period of almost 25 years while working in the Italian-influenced circle of the Duchess Marie de Lorraine (known as Mademoiselle de Guise), and later in the service of the Parisian Jesuits firstly at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, then at the Church of Saint Louis. This volume contains settings of the Alma redemptoris mater, Ave regina caelorum, and two Regina caeli for two high voices and basso continuo.

Pieces

• Alma Redemptoris mater, H. 21
• Antienne, "Regina caeli", H. 16
• Antienne à la vierge à 2 dessus, "Regina caeli", H. 32
• Ave Regina, H. 22