Michel Lambert was a court composer to King Louis XIV of France, and the father-in-law of Lully. He has been known, if at all, for his court airs setting common French poems of the day. He wrote two sets of Tenebrae Lessons, of which the one recorded here is the earlier. Reconstructing it sounds like a pretty speculative enterprise, which is probably why it hasn't been recorded before; contemporary descriptions mention a vocal trio, but here a single voice is used. The relationship between voice and accompaniment is also ...
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Michel Lambert was a court composer to King Louis XIV of France, and the father-in-law of Lully. He has been known, if at all, for his court airs setting common French poems of the day. He wrote two sets of Tenebrae Lessons, of which the one recorded here is the earlier. Reconstructing it sounds like a pretty speculative enterprise, which is probably why it hasn't been recorded before; contemporary descriptions mention a vocal trio, but here a single voice is used. The relationship between voice and accompaniment is also not clear, but two factors lend the music interest: the vocal ornaments are notated in great detail, and the piece was the first ensemble setting of Tenebrae Lessons in France and one of the earlier large-scale pieces in the Italian style, with dramatic settings of sacred texts over a continuo group. In short, this music was extremely influential, and nobody had recorded it before. It's also true that Charpentier and the other composers who wrote this kind of thing improved upon...
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