Movement towards Rome-Hervé Niquet- Rocamadour Festival, August 26, 2022, .

Movement towards Rome-Hervé Niquet- Rocamadour Festival
2022-08-26 21:00:00 21:00:00 – 2022-08-26

15 EUR 15 80 Gradual: Hymn Lucis Creator Optime (Gregorian – Notre-Dame de Paris)
Organ Prelude
Charles Gounod: Kyrie from the “Vocal Mass”
Leo Delibes Gradual: “Ave Maris stella”
Charles Gounod: Gloria from the “Vocal Mass”
Meditation for solo organ
Camille Saint-Saëns: Credo from the “Mass” op. 4, “Offertory for All Saints Day” in F major
Charles Gounod: Sanctus – Benedictus – Agnus Dei from the “Vocal Mass”
Envoy: Hymn “Te Lucis Ante Terminum” (Gregorian – Notre-Dame de Paris)
Charles Gounod: “The Seven Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross”

Statement of intent
With this program, Le Concert Spirituel wishes to highlight the rarely performed sacred works of French composers of the 19th century, whose operas are now better known.
Hervé Niquet has built for his choir, crowned in 2020 with the Liliane Bettencourt prize for choral singing, an unprecedented program intermingling traditional Gregorian antiphons and rare works by Gounod and Saint-Saëns, whose disappearance was commemorated in 2021 100 years ago, works touching, marked by the same neo-classical approach.
The Messe Vocale by Gounod rubs shoulders there, which the composer says he “worked almost in the style of the Sistine Chapel”, and which he wrote in 1842 – a success when it was premiered in Vienna! – and an extract from the Messe opus 4 by Saint-Saëns, the musician’s first large-scale work to have an opus number because the first that he considers to be truly part of the tradition, created (also with honors ) at the Saint-Merri church in 1857; but also lesser-known works by the two masters, such as the moving Offertory for All Saints by Saint-Saëns, and The Seven Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Gounod, composed in 1855, little given and yet described by their dedicatee as ” so admirable in breadth and simplicity.

Distribution
Spiritual Concert Choir
François Saint-Yves, organ
Hervé Niquet, director

Gradual: Hymn Lucis Creator Optime (Gregorian – Notre-Dame de Paris)
Organ Prelude
Charles Gounod: Kyrie from the “Vocal Mass”
Leo Delibes Gradual: “Ave Maris stella”
Charles Gounod: Gloria from the “Vocal Mass”
Meditation for solo organ
Camille Saint-Saëns: Credo from the “Mass” op. 4, “Offertory for All Saints Day” in F major
Charles Gounod: Sanctus – Benedictus – Agnus Dei from the “Vocal Mass”
Envoy: Hymn “Te Lucis Ante Terminum” (Gregorian – Notre-Dame de Paris)
Charles Gounod: “The Seven Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross”

Statement of intent
With this program, Le Concert Spirituel wishes to highlight the rarely performed sacred works of French composers of the 19th century, whose operas are now better known.
Hervé Niquet has built for his choir, crowned in 2020 with the Liliane Bettencourt prize for choral singing, an unprecedented program intermingling traditional Gregorian antiphons and rare works by Gounod and Saint-Saëns, whose disappearance was commemorated in 2021 100 years ago, works touching, marked by the same neo-classical approach.
The Messe Vocale by Gounod rubs shoulders there, which the composer says he “worked almost in the style of the Sistine Chapel”, and which he wrote in 1842 – a success when it was premiered in Vienna! – and an extract from the Messe opus 4 by Saint-Saëns, the musician’s first large-scale work to have an opus number because the first that he considers to be truly part of the tradition, created (also with honors ) at the Saint-Merri church in 1857; but also lesser-known works by the two masters, such as the moving Offertory for All Saints by Saint-Saëns, and The Seven Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Gounod, composed in 1855, little given and yet described by their dedicatee as ” so admirable in breadth and simplicity.

Louis Nespoulous

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