Price: £9.99

Cat No: CLOCD0105

Track List

This is the choir's first recording devoted exclusively to French seventeenth-century composers. Composers and works have been selected that represent the evolution of sacred music over the century, from the contrapuntal motets of Du Caurroy (1609), the first evidence of the new Italian style in France (Bouzignac, Boesset, Du Mont) to the most gifted but most misunderstood composer of his generation, Marc-Antoine Chatpentier. The CD also focuses on a group of pieces written by Bouzignac with both musical and historical significance, that celebrates the Siege of La Rochelle, a decisive victory of Louis XIII over the rebel Protestants.

The Ebor Singers
Directed by Paul Gameson

Organ: Peter Seymour

REVIEWS

Recorded in St Chad's Church, York, on January 29th, February 12th and November 28th, 2004.

Produced by Jonathan Wainwright and David Howard
Engineering: Chris Barlow
Design: Northern Storm