Couperin: Lecons de Tenebres; Lalande: Miserere - CD

Herve Niquet likes to say that recording is a source of stress and sometimes tension: None of that was the case here, he continues. He has been performing this Couperin/de Lalande programme with the female singers of Le Concert Spirituel for over ten years: The seven singers know every nook and cranny of these highly complex scores. So it was time to record this testimony to ten years of work. (...) I like the parallel between the singers of Le Concert Spirituel and the nuns who sing these lamentations every year throughout their lives in their monastery.