DuMont: Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy was one of the very first discs Philippe Herreweghe did with La Chapelle Royale, in 1981; at that time, hardly anyone had ever heard of Henry du Mont, and his sacred music had never before been recorded with anything resembling period instruments or an appropriate style of singing. So upon first release, this selection of du Mont's Grand Motets was a revelation in a number of respects; few listeners were aware of the French Baroque motet, or even familiar with a great deal of ...
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DuMont: Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy was one of the very first discs Philippe Herreweghe did with La Chapelle Royale, in 1981; at that time, hardly anyone had ever heard of Henry du Mont, and his sacred music had never before been recorded with anything resembling period instruments or an appropriate style of singing. So upon first release, this selection of du Mont's Grand Motets was a revelation in a number of respects; few listeners were aware of the French Baroque motet, or even familiar with a great deal of seventeenth century French music, for that matter. As this Musique d'abord reissue -- appearing more than two decades after the initial release -- makes clear, this particular volume doesn't wear as well as some other early Herreweghe recordings, mainly owing to less than stellar singing from a couple of the front line vocalists, a rather spartan approach to continuo realization and a number of underpowered performances that makes for a boring, rather than revelatory, time. However, this...
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