Calendar - Hear my prayer

Hear my prayer

Ensemble

Les Arts Florissants

Musical direction

Cast

Maud GNIDZAZ, soprano
Juliette PERRET, soprano
William Howard SHELTON, counter-tenor - soliste
Bruno LE LEVREUR, counter-tenor
Brian CUMMINGS, counter-tenor
Jean-Yves RAVOUX, tenor
Bastien RIMONDI, tenor - soliste
Sreten MANOJLOVIC, bass - soliste
Julien NEYER, bass
Christophe GAUTIER, bass

Jeffrey GIRTON, violin
Myriam BULLOZ, alto
Alix VERZIER, basse de violon
Massimo MOSCARDO, théorbe
Constance TAILLARD, orgue

Program

Henry PURCELL - Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z 49

Henry PURCELL - I will sing unto the Lord, Z 22

Henry PURCELL - Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z 50

Henry PURCELL - Sonate V, Z 794

Henry PURCELL - Miserere mei, Z 109

Henry PURCELL - O God, Thou hast cast us out, Z 36

Henry PURCELL - Hear my prayer, Z 15

Henry PURCELL - Oh sing unto the lord Z. 44

Entracte

Henry PURCELL - Sonate VI, Z 795

Henry PURCELL - Blow up the trumpet in Zion, Z 10

Henry PURCELL - Let mine eyes run down with tears, Z 24

Henry PURCELL - Sonate I, Z 790 ( premier mouvement )

Henry PURCELL - Thou knowest, Lord, the secret

Henry PURCELL - Man that is born of a woman, Z 27

Henry PURCELL - My heart is inditing, Z 30

“Although he is perhaps best known to modern audiences for his theatre pieces, composed at the very end of his life, Purcell would probably have considered himself primarily a church composer. Our programme will guide the listener through the genius of his greatest sacred music, from the intimacy of the solo song, "Lord, what is man, lost man?" to the luscious sonorities of his greatest full anthem "My heart is Inditing"; from the humour of the 'Bell Anthem' "Rejoice in the Lord Alway" to the pathos of the cry for mercy in the infinite crescendo that is "Hear my prayer O Lord″.”

Paul Agnew