MICHEL-RICHARD DE LALANDE (1657-1726): Grand Motets Venite, exultemus Domino, De profundis and Dominus regnavit.

Description: Second release this year of Grands Motets by this rather neglected composer. Sumptuous music with its synthesis of royal pomp and the language of opera and recorded live in the Chapelle royale at Versailles for which the music was conceived. Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Reinoud Van Mechelen (counter-tenor), François Joron (tenor), Lisandro Abadie (bariton), Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Collegium Marianum; Olivier Schneebeli.