Music from Versailles

Program: #01-05 Air Date: Jan 29, 2001

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Each year, the Centre de Musique Baroque a Versailles continues its mission of preserving, publishing, and promoting the music heard in that glorious court with a festival devoted to a composer who worked there. This week, some sacred motets of Henry DuMont (1610-1684).

Henry Du Mont: Motets pour la
Chapelle de Louis XIV.

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Versailles. Support for this program
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These performances feature:

Howard Crook, countertenor
Herve Lamy, tenor
Peter Harvey, baritone

Les Pages et Chantres de la Chapelle
Ensemble Musica Aeterna
Olivier Schneebeli, director.

HENRY Du MONT: Nisi Dominus.
                                  Pulsate tympanum.
                                  Benedic anima mea.
                                  Magnificat.

Composer Info

Henry Du Mont

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