Noël à la Chapelle: MAGNIFICAT

Noël à la Chapelle: Magnificat – Opera Today

Christmas comes to Versailles, and the magnificent Chapelle Royale, courtesy of Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre, one of the finest conductors of Baroque music around. There was even a Lighting Designer (“mise en lumières”), Julien Lubek, offering various shadings and highlighting to the experience. The programme had been rather mobile – a duration of one hour 15 minutes stretched to one hour 45, and an extra piece was added to that on t…

Noël à la Chapelle: MAGNIFICAT

Bach Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659. Chaconne in G-minor, BWV 1179. Cantata, BWV 63, Christen, ätzet diesen Tag. Magnificat, BWV 243a. Gott sei uns gnädig, BWV 323.  Bodenschatz Alleluia. Vopelius Ein kindelein so löbelich.Charlotte La Thrope, Perrine Devillers (soprano); William Shelton (counter-tenor); Hugo Hymas (tenor); Victor Sicard (baritone)'; Le Poème Hamonique / Vincent Dumestre; Jean-Luc Ho (organ).Chapel Royal, Versailles, 12.12…