Isabelle Poulenard, Sophie Boulin - Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Cantates bibliques (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 75:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | # ARN 68555 | Recorded: 1985
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 75:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | # ARN 68555 | Recorded: 1985
This release was originally part of a two-disc album of vocal and instrumental pieces by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre issued in 1986. The music by this gifted contemporary of François Couperin is enjoying a renaissance, and justifiably, for it is inventive and affecting. Sopranos Isabelle Poulenard and Sophie Boulin are fluent in the somewhat rarefied idiom of the 'cantate française' and the result is delicately pleasing. Four of the cantatas on the disc are taken from Jacquet's first collection of Cantates françaises sur des sujets tirés de l'écriture, published in 1708, and dedicated to Louis XIV. The fifth work, Jephté, comes from a second collection issued in 1711 and is distinct from the other cantatas on the disc in being written for two voices rather than one.