This disc is both musically immensely appealing and sonically quite spectacular, the setting of the Eglise Notre-Dame du Bon Secours in Paris being nothing short of ideal for these Baroque grands motets for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. You won't learn much from the booklet notes, which are in weak white (French) or tiny blue (English and Spanish) print on black background. The latter would be a capital offense in many countries, but fortunately this disc is from France, where difficulty of any kind in literary ...
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This disc is both musically immensely appealing and sonically quite spectacular, the setting of the Eglise Notre-Dame du Bon Secours in Paris being nothing short of ideal for these Baroque grands motets for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. You won't learn much from the booklet notes, which are in weak white (French) or tiny blue (English and Spanish) print on black background. The latter would be a capital offense in many countries, but fortunately this disc is from France, where difficulty of any kind in literary discourse is prized as a kind of national virtue. The recording unites a diverse set of top-flight talents from that country. The angelic sounds of the chamber choir Accentus, whose repertoire runs forward to the early modern period, prove beautifully suited to the large-scale French Baroque medium, and the few large-scale polyphonic movements in these motets are rendered with impressive precision. Conductor Christophe Coin and the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges deliver very smooth...
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